Updated Schedule
The schedule has been updated one last time ( hopefully) and the website has been updated. Here is the current schedule for this weekend. Hope to see you there!
Friday, February 7th, 2025
9:00 - 9:45 am Registration
9:45 Joseph Johnstun: OPENING REMARKS – Community Room
10:00 - 11:15 am Session 1
Robert Cook: “Temple House Building”
Randy Soland: “Nauvoo Town Characters and Businesses in the 1960s and 1970s.” ”
11:30 am-12:15 pm Session 2
David Felgar: “History of the Ogden School and the Ogden and Risse Families”
12:30 - 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 - 2:30 pm Session 3
Joseph Johnstun: “Armed Men, Furious Men, With Murder In Their Hearts’: The Men Who Killed
Joseph and Hyrum Smith—Claims, Accusations, and Pus-filled Wounds”
Joseph Smith: “Life for the Taylor Family in Nauvoo and how it helped shape Church History”
2:45 – 4:00 pm Session 4
Donna Lawson: “Alois Rheinberger one of the First Vintners in Nauvoo”
Kimberli Grant: “A Step into Historical Dance”
4:15 – 5:30 pm Session 5
Russ Fry: “Chief Blackhawk“
Duane Taylor: “Native Americans in the Nauvoo Neighborhood”
6:00 – 7:00 pm Dinner at the Nauvoo Community Center, 1445 Mulholland St, Nauvoo, Illinois
7:00 pm Untold Nauvoo Stories Presentation – Community Room
Curtis Ashton
“Pianos and Performances: A look back and a peek forward at musical productions in Historic Nauvoo”
Saturday February 8 th , 2025
9:00 am-9:45 am Registration
10:00 am-11:15 am Session 6
Dale Harris: “Happenings and Livelihood of A Master Builder’s Lifetime in Nauvoo”
William Cook: “Icarian Socialism”
11:30 am-12:15 pm Session 7
Paul Debarthe: “The role of the Mansion House as a probable way station of the UGRR”
12:15 – 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 – 2:30 Session 8
Heather Greeslaugh & Tim Phelps: “Untold Stories of Hancock County Cemeteries”
Brian Stutzman: “Warsaw, Nemesis of Early Nauvoo”
2:45 – 4:00 pm Session 9
Nancy Benz: “Local History, National Hate: Quincy, Illinois and the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s”
Michael Lorenzen: “Bigfoot Sightings in McDonough County”
4:15 – 5:30 pm Session 10
Rebecca Williamson: “Architectural Tour of Nauvoo”
5:30 – 6:00 pm Eugene Shurts: CLOSING REMARKS - Drawing
