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 

 Kimberli Grant: Historic Dancing 

 Joseph Smith: The Taylor family of Nauvoo 

2:45 – 4:00 pm Session 4 

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

Debbie Callahan: Rheinberger Home Grand Piano 

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 

Heather Greeslaugh & Tim Phelps: Untold Stories of Hancock County Cemeteries 

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 

Dale Harris: Happenings and Livelihood of A Master Builder’s Lifetime in Nauvoo 

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 

Joseph Johnstun: The Men Who Killed Joseph and Hyrum Smith (narration) 

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