The Aurora Historical Society’s exhibit, “Here Comes the Bride,” which was originallyscheduled to close on August 12, has been extended by popular demand by four extra weeks,through Saturday, September 9. The exhibit features nearly thirty wedding dresses from the...
Old-fashioned fun will be the theme of the annual Independence Day Picnic and Ringing of the Bells at the Aurora Historical Society’s Tanner House Museum on July 4 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. Festivities will begin with music by singer-songwriter Bradley Keven Green and...
Jim is pictured with his wife, Darlene Drake Varney, at a 2018 AHS event. Dr. Jim Varney, Ed.D., has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Aurora Historical Society. Dr. Varney is a retired educator who spent nearly five decades working with students from...
Singer-songwriter Bradley Keven Green in a 2018 performance of Death Comes to the Tanner House, set in the Civil War era. The Aurora Historical Society takes on a terrible blend of war, sickness, and death in Death Comes to the Tanner House: 1918 over the Halloween...
Chairs of all styles and eras will be featured in the fall exhibit of the Aurora Historical Society starting September 2. Mary Clark Ormond, president of the Aurora Historical Society, looks at the storage space for smoking materials hidden in the armrest of a...
The Tanner House Museum, decorated for the holidays, will be open for walkthrough tours on the Sundays of December, December 5, 12, 19 and 26, from Noon to 4pm. The museum has not been open since 2019 due to the coronavirus pandemic. “We have had to be cautious...
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