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"Keeping Warm in the Ozarks: Cast Iron Stoves in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries" exhibit opening reception and presentations.
"Keeping Warm in the Ozarks: Cast Iron Stoves in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries" is the February-March interpretive exhibition in the series Helping to Bring the Humanities to the Public Square, coordinated by Dr. Billie Follensbee of Missouri State University. This exhibition includes cast-iron stove parts excavated at the Bonniebrook Homestead, which illustrates features of different late 19th and early 20th century stoves for cooking and heating. The exhibition opening reception is during the First Friday Art Walk, and will feature the presentation "Researching and Preserving Iron Artifacts" by Missouri State University alumna Madelyn Pohl. Children's activity sheets will be available throughout the exhibition.
The Missouri State University Museum Studies Program, Department of Art and Design, and the Park Central Branch Library, Springfield-Greene County Library System, are sponsoring this program in partnership with the Missouri Humanities Council and with support from the Missouri Humanities Trust Fund.
Mon, Dec 02 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Tue, Dec 03 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Wed, Dec 04 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Thu, Dec 05 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Fri, Dec 06 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Sat, Dec 07 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Sun, Dec 08 | Closed |
The Park Central Branch Library, an arts- and media-themed non-traditional facility, features a small collection of popular fiction and nonfiction books on face-out shelving, a wide selection of local and national newspapers and magazines and DVDs, CDs and audiobooks. More than a dozen computer stations provide downtown patrons with high-speed access to the Internet and the Library's catalog and research databases. The facility includes a self-checkout machine, a disc vending machine, gallery walls, a laptop bar and other seating. Beverages, pastries and snacks are available next door at The Coffee Ethic.