Appanoose Area Preservation Society

06/10/2024

03/17/2023

From the files - 20 years ago. Visit us in 2023 to see additions, new displays and events. Open first Sunday of June 2:00

APPANOOSE AREA PRESERVATION SOCIETY
NEWSLETTER 2003

Another exciting and busy year for the volunteers and staff at AAPS has just ended. The move into the 3rd room was completed the day after the class moved out! This took a lot of work for the volunteers but as usual they met the challenge and all was ready for the Appanoose Alumni Banquet 2 days later. One of our AHS alumni donated a window air-conditioner for that room so we now enjoy cool air in all 3 rooms, makes summer visits bearable and pleasant.

For fun and interest we gathered items from local and area businesses to fill a basket and each visitor signed up for it all summer. Drawing was held on the last Sunday of our summer schedule

A new activity was added in 2002. We provided a special museum family afternoon once each month. For our first outing in June we toured 2 local homes, the l00 year old country home of Bob & Lois Dillon and the 100 year old Victorian home of Dennis & Janet Donnely. We had a very good response to this. In July we had an antique tractor and truck show, very good turn out, lots of tractors and lots of visitors. It was a hot day but the AC and plenty of ice tea made for a great afternoon. A good old fashioned ice cream social was the feature for August. Another hot day but again AC, ice tea and FREE home-made ice cream brought out a good crowd. Jette Lee Wi**er, Vassar, entertained us with her accordion and singing some of the old country songs. On that day we held the drawing for the basket of local goods. Everett Crumpacker of Indiana was the winner.

The generosity of visitors and neighbors has been wonderful! We have acquired some interesting items to make our displays educational and more complete. To date we have over 70 donors and hundreds of artifacts. THANK YOU!

Just as fantastic is the time and effort of many volunteers who clean, teach, repair, paint and host on Sunday afternoons and other days. THANKS!!

Kansas Day, as usual, was one of our big events. We took 136 students K-5 through the museum and gave each grade level a special lesson to enrich their curriculum. Some of these lessons included a “day on the Oregon Trail” around the covered wagon, an “Indian Pow-Wow” around the tipi, learning about the use of apples in the “1920 farm kitchen”, and making quilt blocks at the “quilting bee”. Lessons in the one room school were taught by Mrs. Beth Gentry.

Later the “Plains Indian Culture” re-enactors will spend 2 days with the students of Appanoose, Pomona & Williamsburg. This presentation will be paid for by a grant from Aetna Life Ins. Co. thanks to Alan Anderson.

11/10/2022

Thank you Appanoose Area Veterans, serving from 1861-2021

11/08/2022

November activities at APPANOOSE MUSEUM:
Wed.Nov 9 at 8-10 Coffee on the Prairie Judy Simpson speaker
Sunday Nov 13 Quilt Show 2-4
Wed, Nov 14 Bingo 2:00

10/13/2022

APPANOOSE MUSEUM November 13

10/08/2022

APPANOOSE MUSEUM will have 'Coffee on the Prairie" this Wednesday 8:00-10:00. We do this the second Wednesday of each month.

09/29/2022

APPANOOSE MUSEUM - welcomes you to these events for October. Watch for further details.
October 9 Dean Cemetery tour, located 340 Shawnee Terr, Pomona.
October 12 monthly Coffee on the Prairie at the museum.

08/19/2022

APPANOOSE MUSEUM will be open Sunday from 1:00-4:00. This week area schools started - check out a 1930's schoool.

07/30/2022

APPANOOSE MUSEUM open this Sunday 1:00-4:00. Terry Altic will be there to chat with you.