Enlighten your lunch hour! Join the Hancock Historical Museum for on the first Thursday of the month at noon, unless otherwise indicated, for a lectures based on local history. Lectures are free for Museum members and the cost of regular admission for nonmembers. Please call the Museum at (419)423-4433 with questions.

January – NO LECTURE – CLOSED
February 2 – Kate Hayfield, “Indiana Jones Lied to You!: An Archaeologist’s Perspective”
March 2 – Dr. Chuck Coletta, “Television in Jeopardy: The 1950s Quiz Show Scandals”
April 6 – Dr. Cheryl Dong, “We Ain’t Been Pickin’ On the Parkway: Appalachian Heritage, Identity, and Landloss in the Wake of the Blue Ridge Parkway”
May 4 – Dr. Alvin Dwayne Beggs, “The Tonkin Gulf Resolution and the American Entrance to the Vietnam War”
June 1 – Dr. Robert Kroeger, “Round Barns of America” *with book signing
July – NO LECTURE – Ice Cream Social on July 4th
August 3 – Tom O’Grady, “Not Since Tecumseh: A Total Eclipse of the Sun in the Ohio Country”
September 7 – Dr. Rebecca Mancuso, “”We Support Child Support”: Ohio Women’s Activism Goes National, 1984-2005”
October 5 – Fred Steiner, “A Dark Night in Bluffton”
November 2 – Bob Weinberg, “Serving as a Sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier”
December 7 – Ron Ammons, “Battle of the Bulge”