February 7-8, 2025

Nauvoo Community Center

1445 Mulholland St, Nauvoo Illinois

Friday, February 7th, 2025 

9:00 - 9:45 am Registration 

9:45 Opening Remarks 

10:00 - 11:15 am Session 1 

 Robert Cook: Temple House Building 

 Garret Moffitt: Joseph Smith and Lincoln 

11:30 am - 12:15 pm Session 2 

David Felgar: History of the Ogden School and the Ogden and Risser Family 

12:15 - 1:15 pm Lunch 

1:15 - 2:30 pm Session 3 

 Debbie Callaghan: Franz Liszt Visits the Rheinberger

Joseph Smith: “Life for the Taylor Family in Nauvoo and how it helped shaped church history

2:45 – 4:00 pm Session 4 

Donna Lawson: Alois Rheinberger one of the First Vintner’s in Nauvoo 

Kimberli Grant: A Step into Historical Dance 

4:00 – 5:15 pm Session 5 

Duane Taylor: Native Americans in the Nauvoo Neighborhood 

Russ Fry: Chief Blackhawk 

5:30 - 6:30 pm Dinner at the Nauvoo Community Center, 1445 Mulholland St, Nauvoo, Illinois

Untold Nauvoo Stories Keynote Presentation: “Keynote Speaker” Joseph Monsen 

How the Shell of the Nauvoo House became the River Side Mansion 

Saturday February 8th, 2025 

9:00 am-9:45 am Registration 

10:00 am-11:45 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 Underground Railroad 

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 

4:00 – 4:45 pm Session 10 

Rebecca Williamson: “Architectural Tour of Nauvoo”

5:00 – 5:30 pm Closing Remarks: Committee -Drawing