Friday, September 14, 2012
Exhibit features interactive materials to help visitors explore trains through art.
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Friday, September 14, 2012
All Aboard! Head over to DuPage Children’s Museum Monday for TRAINS – All Aboard Art! Young train lovers can put themselves in the engineer’s seat with an on-board train camera, load cargo onto train cars or design their own tracks at the interactive art exhibit. Through the exhibit, children will enter one artist’s interpretation of trains by role-playing engineer, passenger or conductor in a child-size train based on cubist artist Gino Severini’s “Red Cross Train.” The style and colors in the painting will be reflected in this play train, as well as in a new model train setting. An engine-mounted video camera provides children with the engineer’s point of view as the train travels this brightly colored cubist landscape. “Young children …
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DuPage Children's Museum
301 N Washington St, Naperville, IL
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Here’s what you need to know about this weekend’s (free) historical celebration.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Submitted by Wayne Dunham Join us on Saturday, Sept. 17 to experience a noisy remembrance of the Civil War while stepping back into the history of Lisle and DuPage County. Beginning at 11 a.m. and hourly until 4 p.m., a group of Civil War re-enactors will fire a Civil War canon as part of the 27th Annual Depot Days celebration at The Museums at Lisle Station Park, 921 School St. Admission is free. In between firings, the group, dressed in Civil War uniforms, will be on hand to explain how the canon fires, talk Civil War history, and lead you through several displays. The group represents Taylor's Battery, a Chicago Light Artillery unit organized early in the Civil War by Ezra Taylor. Approximately 207 members from the greater Chicago …
Friday, November 26, 2010
Just because the trees are bare doesn't mean activities are. Today kicks off a slew of Christmas and winter-themed events.
While the final leaves drop—along with the temperature—the Morton Arboretum is gearing up for an active winter season. Boasted as the fourth most visited garden in the entire nation, the "tree zoo" rakes in over 800,000 visitors each year. (Public relations manager Gina Tedesco said 40,000 people came to watch the leaves change in October alone.) Karin Jaros, assistant director of membership, said some people don't realize there are winter events and classes. "Many people are looking for something for their kids," she said. "The Arboretum meets many needs for different people. People play in the snow, attend activities, shop in the store... however they want to use it is great." Winter festivities officially start today. They're also …
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Morton Arboretum
4100 Lincoln Ave, Lisle, IL
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