Five talks will be given on Wednesdays in March and April of 2011 at the Central Library in London, Ontario. Local historians will give lectures about forgotten stories of London, looking at a famous actress buried in Woodland Cemetery, the elephant Jumbo at the Elgin County Museum, London's piano industry, the city's electric railway, and the Catholic Women's League.
Five talks will be given on Wednesdays in March and April of 2011 at the Central Library in London, Ontario. Local historians will give lectures about forgotten stories of London, looking at a famous actress buried in Woodland Cemetery, the elephant Jumbo at the Elgin County Museum, London's piano industry, the city's electric railway, and the Catholic Women's League.
Five talks will be given on Wednesdays in March and April of 2011 at the Central Library in London, Ontario. Local historians will give lectures about forgotten stories of London, looking at a famous actress buried in Woodland Cemetery, the elephant Jumbo at the Elgin County Museum, London's piano industry, the city's electric railway, and the Catholic Women's League.
Central Library 251 Dundas Street Stevenson & Hunt Room “B”
Five new lectures by local
historians will look at aspects of London lost in the sands of time.
Mar. 30 Annie Pixley, actress
Kim Campbell Woodland Cemetery Apr. 6 Jumbo, the elephant Mike Baker Elgin County Museum Apr. 13 Piano Industry Arthur McClelland London Room Apr. 20 Electric Railway David Spencer University of Western Ontario Apr. 27 Catholic Women’s League Debra Majer Diocese of London
(Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) Elizabeth A. Bohls - Women Travel Writers and The Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818-Cambridge University Press (1995)