| Find Your Place in History
Midway Village Museum is a 137-acre campus conveniently located near I-90 yet comfortably nestled among the trees to give visitors the step-back-in-time experience.
The museum campus consists of a Victorian village with 24 historical buildings filled with artifacts of the era as well as several beautiful 19th century gardens that depict life in northern Illinois from 1890 to 1910. Interpreters in authentic period dress are available seasonally for guided tours. The main museum building holds large group meeting rooms and exhibit space with a number of permanent exhibits reflecting Rockford's history and culture that include The Girls of Summer: Rockford Peaches of the AAGPBL, Queen City of the Prairies: Rockford's First 20 Years and The Missing Link: Socks, Monkeys and Rockford's Industrial Past.
Heirloom Seed Starting Workshop
9 am to 11 am
Saturday, March 20. 2010
If you have ever wanted to grow your own heirloom vegetables or flowers but didn't know how to go about it.....here is your opportunity. Midway Village Museum Garden Historian, Tari Rowland, will lead this hands-on workshop that will give you everything that you will need to grow your own luscious heirloom tomatoes and fragrant flowers.
Workshop participants will take home a flat of planted heirlooms that they have started along with information about how to grow heirlooms that they have started along with information about how to grow them when they get home. Each person will receive four varieties of tomatoes and four varieties of flowers.
Cost is $18. Advanced registration is required.
For more information, call 815-397-9112, ext. 116 or tari.rowland@midwayvillage.com.
Please Save Items for the Upcoming "From Minks to Sinks" Sale
Midway Village Museum is planning a huge sale of good, reusable items of all types this April. It's a great time to clean.......out with the old in with the new.
Please set your items aside or get in touch with Betty Willard at bettyrockford@comcast.net for storage. Only small appliances or easily moved furniture items will be accepted. Children's toys and clothing are highly desirable. We are also looking for collectibles.
To learn more about the sale click http://tiny.cc/Ggv2P . Visitors to Rockford may stay at a Rock Hospitality Group hotel with a special overnight rate of $89. Those guests staying at the Holiday Inn-Express enjoy with the special rate a complete Continental breakfast, a fitness area and swimming pool for the children. Please click www.rockhospitality.com or call 1-815-654-4100 for complete details on overnight accommodations.
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