2009 November 7 Aurora Regional Fire Museum, Aurora. Gingerbread FIREhouse contest, registrations due Nov 7th. Read about the contest and register online at http://www.AuroraRegionalFireMuseum.org/gingerbread. 9 IHC and Citizens Club of Springfield, Springfield. "Beyond Lake II: How Do We Protect Access to Fresh Water and Oil Resources?" Discussion is free and open to the public, Dove Conference Center Prairie Heart Institute, 5:30 to 7:30 pm. For more information about the All-Consuming series, visit www.prairie.org/oilandwater or call 312/422-5580. 14 Illinois State Museum, Springfield. Super Saturdays program "That's Quite a Quilt!", 10 am - 4 pm. For more information, please visit http://www.museum.state.il.us/ismsites/main/super-saturday.html. 16 AASLH, Oklahoma City. 2010 Annual Meeting "Winds of Opportunity" session proposal deadline. For questions, please visit http://www.aaslh.org/2010AnnualMeeting.htm or contact Bethay Hawkins at Hawkins@aaslh.org or 615/320-3203. 18 Norwood Park Historical Society, Chicago. Presentation by area historian Anne Lunde, "Digging Into the Past", 7 pm. Free, Noble-Seymour-Crippen House. For more information on the event, call 773/631-4633 or e-mail info@norwoodparkhistoricalsociety.org.  19 Informal Science Education Grant, National Science Foundation. Application deadline. For questions, please visit http://nsf.gov/funding. 30 Museum Assessment Program, AAM. Application postmark deadline of November 30, 2009. For questions, contact program staff by email at map@aam-us.org or by phone at 202/289-9118. December 1 Conservation Assessment Program, Grant application postmark deadline. www.heritagepreservation.org 4 – 5 Crystal Lake Historical Society, Crystal Lake. Candlelight Christmas Tours, timed ticket sales TBA. 815/455-1151 or www.cl-hs.org. 5 McHenry County Historical Society, Union. Free Holiday Open House, 1 to 4 pm. 6 Putnam County Historical Society, Hennepin. Christmas Open House at Pulsifer House, 2 to 4 pm. www.rootsweb.com/~ilpchs. 11 – 12 Bishop Hill State Historic Site, Elizabeth. Swedish Festival of Lights, 6 – 9 pm. 309/927-3345. 12 – 13 Apple River State Historic Site, Elizabeth. “Keeping Christmas” from 10 am to 3 pm. For information, call 815/858-2028.   Back to the Top