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Stockton Heritage Museum to host presentation on telling time in ancient North America This August, the Stockton Heritage Museum will play host to a discussion on some of the ways humans have been measuring time for thousands of years. Without a cell phone or clock around to tell if one was running late for the hunt or needed to prepare for harvesting season, the earliest human civilizations had to rely on other methods to schedule their days and nights. The presentation, Telling Time in Ancient North America, will take place on Aug. 23, at the Stockton Heritage Museum, 107 W. Front Ave., Stockton, IL at 7 p.m. William Iseminger will invite audiences to discover the various timekeeping methods employed by these ancient civilizations in North America. Whether natural formations on the horizon or artificial, man-made structures, their calendars made use of the sun, moon, and certain bright stars to measure time. Learn about the Woodhenge sun circles of Cahokia Mounds, America’s and Illinois’s first major city, other prehistoric Indian sites in eastern North America, the Pueblo structures in the Southwest, and the rock circle “Medicine Wheels” of the Great Plains – all evidence of the great innovators who looked to the sky to know what time it was. The event is being produced in part by Illinois Humanities Road Scholars Speakers Bureau, a program that
provides organizations statewide with affordable, entertaining, and thoughtprovoking humanities events for their communities. A roster of speakers, hailing from 20 different towns and cities across Illinois, present topics in history, culture, literature, music, politics, law, science, and many more. Road Scholar William Iseminger , the speaker for this program, was born in Bloomington, Illinois, and grew up in Arlington, Virginia. He majored in anthropology in college, receiving his BA from the University of Oklahoma and his MA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He participated in excavations in South Dakota and several locations in Illinois, and he has worked at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, near Collinsville, IL, full time since 1971. He directed public archaeological field schools for many years and serves as assistant site manager in charge of exhibits, interpretation and public relations at Cahokia for the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Iseminger is the author of the book, Cahokia Mounds: America’s First City(Landmarks) published in March 2010. The event is free and open to all audiences. For more information, please visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/StocktonHeritage-Museum-309324911534/ or contact Peggy Drane, pdrane56@ gmail.com, or (815) 238-7859.
Stockton hosts End of Summer Celebration with a movie in the park EDITOR
Friends and family members gathered Sunday evening for the last Movie in the Park event of the season in Stockton’s Memorial Park. “We are having our End of Summer Celebration and it consists of our final movie in the park for the 2016 summer season, a bounce house for kids of all ages, face painting and complimentary hot dogs, chips and cotton candy,” said Stockton Strong member Erin Jordan.
She said the 2016 Summer in the Park season was fantastic. DOMINIC CARTON PHOTO THE SCOOP TODAY “We had three Movies in the Park, an arts festival with its jazz festival and Music in the Park,” Jordan said. “It’s been a great summer and there Eight year old Franc Knapp sat in on a couple campground jam sessions over the weekend at the annual are always new people that come Willow Folk Festival held near Stockton. to the events hosted by Stockton Strong, so we thought to give back to the community and have everyone out for one final hurrah before school starts.”
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