by Aurora Historical Society | Feb 5, 2024 | Press Release
Mary Clark Ormond, center, poses with family and friends after being awarded the Aurora Historical Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award Mary Clark Ormond continues to be a history-maker as the third recipient of the Aurora Historical Society’s Lifetime Achievement...
by Aurora Historical Society | Oct 31, 2023 | Press Release
Please join us in welcoming Nick Sargis and Kevin Bee to the Aurora Historical Society’s Board of Trustees. Sargis and Bee were unanimously elected to the board at a recent meeting. Sargis has long been active in the area’s theatre community and is the...
by Aurora Historical Society | Aug 8, 2023 | Press Release
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...
by Aurora Historical Society | Jul 2, 2023 | Press Release, Special Events
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...
by Aurora Historical Society | Jun 14, 2023 | Press Release
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...
by Aurora Historical Society | Oct 19, 2022 | Press Release, Special Events
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...
