Lunch ‘n Learn 2013

During Summer 2013 FCHS Director Deborah Barker presented five lunch hour sessions highlighting one artifact and one photograph from the FCHS collections.

Topics included the Tinnen school desegregation case that occurred nearly 70 years before the historic Brown v. Board decision of 1954 and the connections of William

Clarke Quantrill to Franklin County.

FCHS Director Deborah Barker giving participants a closer look at an historic painting.

Deborah discussed the various types of historic photographs at one session. Here is a panorama of Ottawa’s Main ST.

Maps were the topic of one session. Sanborn fire maps got a lot of attention.

All sessions were well attended.

Participants get a closer look at Civil War artifacts. The old checker board has the pictures of Civil War generals on the squares.