Memorial Garden Walkway Dedication
Memorial Garden Walkway DedicationJoin us for our outdoor dedication to The Wright Museum's new Memorial Garden Walkway.
Memorial Garden Walkway DedicationJoin us for our outdoor dedication to The Wright Museum's new Memorial Garden Walkway.
The Wright Museum of WWII Opens for its 2021 Season with two special exhibits - WASP, The Untold Story and Women and the War Effort: Recruiting Posters of WWII. These exhibits run until June 10. WASP, The Untold Story and Women Exhibition is made possible by Service Credit Union, with additional support from Pratt & […]
Christin Kaiser will explain how to grow Japanese vegetables, share recipes, and will “raffle” veggie starts to some lucky audience members.
Christin is the Wright Museum’s volunteer gardener who designed, built, and maintains our Victory Garden, which is located on the Museum campus.
This documentary film about the Victory in Europe will run continuously in the DuQuoin Education Center
Virtual Lecture by author Joanne D. Gilbert Joanne D. Gilbert, grew up in a predominantly Jewish suburb of Detroit, where many Holocaust Survivors lived. Joanne’s earliest influence was her Grandmother, Millie Wineman Ron, who had been able to leave Lithuania before the Nazis came and eliminated the Jewish community. Millie never forgave herself for […]
Director’s TourA tour of the Museum and special exhibits.
Maxfield Real Estate Half-Off Admission Day Presented by Maxfield Real Estate, on this day admission for all visitors will be half-off.
A film directed and written by Tim Gray and narrated by Tom Selleck *90-minute showingThis 2016 documentary is shown in honor of the 80th anniversary of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. It includes interviews with servicemen and civilians who watched the Japanese planes drop their torpedoes and bombs on a stunned American […]
Presented by Jane OneailThis program is free – courtesy of the NH Humanities Council Norman Rockwell created dozens of images related to World War II. What happens when an artist known for his humor tackles the serious subject of war? Oneail explores how Rockwell’s work departs from earlier artistic interpretations of American conflicts. She also […]
A tour of the Museum and special exhibits.
Lecture by Richard A. Lobban, Jr., Ph.D.Richard Lobban sets the stage of World War II Africa by discussing the political and military situation on the continent before the war, Africa’s occupation and “effective control” after the Berlin Congress, and the partition of Africa. Lobban also explains the unintended consequences of the war on African nationalism […]
This documentary film about D-Day will run continuously in the DuQuoin Education Center.