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Thuy-Van Becker of Lemont serves herself punch May 10 at the Lemont Historical Society’s annual Civil War picnic.
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LEMONT – The Lemont Area Historical Society’s fifth annual Civil War Picnic was May 10. Hosted at the Lemont Museum, historical re-enactors Helen Milam and Toni Blaeser appeared in period dress, playing a war nurse and 19th-century feminist, respectively. A video of the dedication of the Lemont Civil War Me-
morial also was shown. Located on the corner of Main Street and New Avenue in Legion Park, the memorial honors the more than 250 Lemont residents who volunteered to serve in the Civil War. The memorial in Lemont stands in the same place where soldiers from the village shipped out to war and where Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train traveled through town.