Dr. Sara Butler, Miami University Art Department Professor Emeritus, will present "Reality and Fantasy: 150 Years of Butler County Weddings” at 7:00 pm on September 10 in the Emma Ritchie Auditorium at the Butler County Historical Society, 327 North Second Street, Hamilton. The program is free to the public and highlights many of the wedding dresses
Part of the current exhibition Beckett: More Than A Business, is a 36-page booklet with a detailed history of the company, published for the company's 125th anniversary in 1973. Much of it had been written by Bill Beckett 25 years earlier for the 100th anniversary. About the Exhibition Beckett: More Than A Business,
The BCHS will be opening two new exhibits this spring by June 1. Beckett, More Than a Business: A family will be featured in the story of the Beckett Paper Company and the people that made it special. Employees were considered as family and this clearly seen through the many pictures that have survived from employee events. The exhibit
A reception honoring a summer exhibit: Covington's Cincinnati, 4 to 6 p.m. this Thursday, July 24, Walter Havighurst Special Collections, 3rd floor, King Library, Miami University, Oxford. Covington's Cincinnati Jack White, MU '58, former Smithsonian curator, and native of Cincinnati, will give a guided tour of the exhibit he guest curated. About the Covington Collection The
Did you know that the security system that protects the Declaration of Independence and other American treasures was made right here in Hamilton by the Mosler Safe Company? The Butler County Historical Society owns a working model of that system. In July, a reunion of Mosler Safe employees will gather in Hamilton, so we have
The Butler County Historical Society has launched "The Theaters of Butler County," a multi-media exhibition showcasing the historical theaters, movie houses and area residents who had careers on Broadway, in the film industry and on world opera stages. The pictorial exhibit shows many of the long lost stage and movie theaters of Hamilton