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Showing posts with label event. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Tannehill Silent Auction


TANNEHILL SILENT AUCTION
Friday night, September 17th, 2010
In the Alabama Iron & Steel Museum
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Admission: $5.00 adults
After Class band will perform http://www.after-class.com
Civil War Re-enactors will man the auction tables.
Everyone involved will be volunteers.
All proceeds go to the restoration of the casting sheds at the Tannehill Furnaces.

Some of the items in the auction are: A spray on bed-liner, Town & Country Ford Collision Center, Bessemer, Alabama (a $475.00 value). A Book from the Bear Bryant Museum. A 7lb chocolate Bama football from the Tannehill Sweet Shop. A $50.00 gift card from the Bright Star Restaurant. Serra Honda donated a TomTom GPS.

Pieter Kes donated an original Civil War framed print. Other donors include the Alabama Museum of Health Sciences, Bob Sykes BBQ, Brian Jordan, resident potter at Tannehill. ©MomenTaker Photography donated two portrait packages.

Securitas Security Company will provide security during the event at no cost.

Lots more to come. All donations are welcome and are tax deductible.
Tannehill needs your help, to make a donation or for more information contact Vicki Kes 205-907-1375, tannehillsilentauction@gmail.com or Jim Bennett at

Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park
12632 Confederate Parkway
McCalla, Al.
http://www.tannehill.org
(205) 477-5711

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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Workshop: Textile Exhibits in Small Museums


Saturday, August 21, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Workshop: Textile Exhibits in Small Museums


The New Castle Historical Society is partnering with the Costume Society of America to present a workshop on textile exhibits in small museums. Based on the Society's current textile exhibit, Tying The Knot - New Castle Nuptials Since 1784, the workshop will be ideally suited for staff and volunteers working in small museums.


Pre-registration is required. Contact the New Castle Historical Society at 302-322-2794 or nchistorical@aol.com for more information and to register.


Download a flyer here.



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