News from Greater Monessen Historical Society
Rick Sebak to host Locally Sourced Variety Hour
The Greater Monessen Historical Society will hold a fundraiser dinner and dance on Saturday, October 7, at Jozwiak Hall in the St. Vincent DePaul Society building at 1701 Grand Blvd. The celebration will be “Colonel Schoonmaker's Birthday Bash”. Colonel James Martinus Schoonmaker was Monessen's main founder and the hero of the Third Battle of Winchester in the Civil War, for which he received the Congressional Medal of Honor. This year marks the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth and the ninetieth anniversary of his death. Guests are encouraged to dress in costume from the time period of the Colonel's life (1842-1927), which encompassed the Frontier Age, Civil War, Victorian Age, Edwardian Age and Roaring Twenties. Limited tickets are available by contacting the Heritage Museum at 724-684-8460. The dinner will be catered by Bruno and Sons and feature roast beef, baked stuffed chicken, coleslaw, oven-browned parmesan potatoes, carrots, dinner rolls and cake. Tickets are available for a $30 donation. The event will also feature a free photo booth. DJ, Dennis Wince will provide music. On Saturday, October 14, at 11 AM, Monessen Attorney, Jack Bergstein will present a power-point lecture with photographs showcasing President John F. Kennedy's October, 1962 visit to Monessen. He will read the Presidential speech in honor of the fifty-fifth anniversary of the visit and discuss the reasons for the trip, as well as its preparation. As part of the program, the previous presidential visits to Monessen by William Howard Taft, Warren Harding and Harry S. Truman will also be cov-
Variety Hour: Multiple Choice Locally Sourced, will be held at the August Wilson Center, 980 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, on Saturday, October 14. Guests of all ages are welcome to attend the Variety Hour featuring six local performing artists, at 8 p.m.; then at 9 p.m. everyone can join us for a speed painting competition featuring local visual artists, an art auction to benefit each artist and after party. You own the night with Multiple Choice Events: [A] Attend a show, [B] Go to a party featuring a speed painting competition, [C] Grab a bite to eat at our food truck roundup, or all of the above. Ticket ($25) includes the 8 p.m. Variety Hour and 9 p.m. speed painting competition and after party. Ticket ($5 in advance; $10 at the door) includes 9 p.m. entry to the speed painting competition, art auction and after party. Food trucks will be on site offering attendees a variety of food and beverage options to purchase throughout the evening. Multiple Choice: Locally Sourced features a Variety Hour, showcasing the best Pittsburgh has to offer. Hosted by documentarian and local celebrity Rick Sebak, the Variety Hour will showcase performers who live or work within fifty miles of the city; each performer has up to 10 minutes to show off their skills and creativity. This past summer, Randal Miller, Director of Dance
ered. The Autumn Exhibit at the Monessen Heritage Museum is called “Treasures from the Archives”. It showcases individual panels such as “Presidential visits”, the life of Colonel Schoonmaker, river transportation, firefighting history, early baseball, local art, radios, and the burning of the second Monessen High School. The display will be open through the end of the year during regular business hours. The Society is looking for photos of old Monessen Christmas scenes. Photos can be dropped off at the Heritage Museum to be scanned or emailed to monessen@verizon.net. Membership renewal and fund campaign letters for the 2018 year will soon be in the mail. Individual memberships are $15 per year and follow a calendar year. A family membership is $20, with a business membership being $50. October is “family History/Genealogy” Month. Please remember to deposit a copy of your family genealogy with the Historical Society. Also, consider loaning family photos of businesses, reunions and special occasions to the Museum for scanning. The Greater Monessen Historical Society has a Twitter account. Follow us at @MonessenHistory. We are also on Facebook and have over 3000 followers worldwide! We can be located on Facebook under “Greater Monessen Historical Society”. See our latest events, news and photos of previous events. Google us and find our webpage filled with all the necessary information to visit, donate, join or learn about us! The museum is open Wed-Sat from 10 AM-3 PM. The address is 505 Donner Avenue, Monessen. The phone number is 724-684-8460. Admission is free.
Programming and Special Projects with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust curated the online call for the artist event submissions. The open call winner chosen from the submissions, Spoken Word Artist Karla “SpiritLead” Payne, receives a $250 cash award, tickets to the Variety Hour: Multiple Choice Locally Sourced and the opportunity to pThe Variety Hour at 8 p.m. will feature Pittsburgh artists Alt. R&B Musician Amir Miles, Dancer Teena Custer, Physical Comedian Bill Shannon, Playwright Brian Pope, Spoken Word Artist Karla “Spirit-Lead” Payne (open call artist winner) and Texture Contemporary Ballet. At 9 p.m., Locally Sourced continues with more multiple choice happenings for guests of all ages to enjoy and be a participant as an art judge following the speed painting competition during the after party. The speed painting competition features 12 Pittsburgh visual artists who will be given 30 minutes and a blank canvas to create works that will then be judged by the audience. The top four artists from the preliminary rounds will face off in a second round of painting to determine the winner. At the end of the evening, all art pieces will be auctioned off with proceeds going directly to the artists.Tickets are available at TrustArts.org, by calling 412-456-6666 or in person at Theater Square Box Office, 655 Penn Avenue. FMI: trustarts.org
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