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Crochet 2 - Reading Patterns
with Meghanne Jennings
You know the basics of crocheting and want to take it to the next level, reading patterns. This short course will show you how to read patterns and create a wonderful piece/s that you'll treasure forever.
Fixing Your Funny Bone
with Jennifer Keith
Forget flying, invisibility or teleportation - the best superpower to covet is humor. Jennifer Keith’s superpower has been and always will be humor - in many forms. As a certified Humor Professional and current president of the international Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, Jennifer discovered the brain remembers two things - trauma and humor.
Using her G.R.I.T. method of using humor to process trauma and loss, Jennifer finds ways to fix the funny bone and find the funny faster when surrounded by disappointing and upsetting events. If your brain is remembering the difficult times anyway, why not cushion them with a little bit of light, levity, and laughter?
Jennifer is a published author, and will have some of her books with her for purchase, and signing.
Oglesby Mansion
Historically, Richard J. Oglesby is recognized as Decatur’s most distinguished citizen. He served his country well as a U.S. Senator, a Civil War Union General, and a three-time Governor of Illinois.
In 1859 Richard Oglesby married Anna White. They lived in a seven-room, two-story frame house in the 400 block West William. They had four children, but two died at very early ages. Anna died in 1868, and in 1873 Richard married Emma Gillett Keays, a widow with one son. Richard and Emma had four–the two youngest were born in the Mansion–and these four are pictured at right, some years after they left the house.
By 1868-69, Governor Oglesby contacted a Chicago architect, William LeBaron Jenney (father of the skyscraper) to provide plans for a new house. After Anna’s death and his return to civilian life in Decatur, the plans were put aside. The governor and his second wife, Emma, brought them back out after their marriage, modified them, and hired D.C. Shockley, a Decatur contractor, as the builder. The new house was attached to the east side of the old house, and the old one was used for a kitchen and servants’ quarters.
