Local History Symposium

Schedule

Sat Nov 08 2025 at 10:00 am to 03:45 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science | Evansville, IN

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Partnering with the Evansville Museum, the Vanderburgh County Historical Society presents a Local History Symposium at the Museum on Saturday, November 8, a series of four talks that will recall various aspects of the city’s past.
This will include talks by University of Southern Indiana history professor Denise Lynn; retired educator Terry Hughes; Vanderburgh County Historian Stan Schmitt; and the Evansville Museum’s chief curator/curator of history Tom Lonnberg.
Schedule:
10:00–11:00 am: Denise Lynn, Albion Fellows Bacon
11:15 am–12:15 pm: Terry Hughes, The Golden Years of the Victory Theatre
12:15–1:30 pm: Lunch Break on Your Own
1:30–2:30 pm: Stan Schmitt, Evansville’s Early Transportation History
2:45–3:45 pm: Tom Lonnberg, Key Moments in Evansville’s History
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Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science, 411 SE Riverside Dr, Evansville, IN 47713-1037, United States

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