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...
Singer-songwriter Bradley Keven Green performs on the porch of the Tanner House on July 4, 2020. The 53rd Independence Day Ringing of the Bells at the Aurora Historical Society’s Tanner House Museum will be held from 12:30-1:30pm on July Fourth. Because of the COVID...
Angela Clay Thomas Angela Clay Thomas was reelected to a third term on the Board of Trustees of the Aurora Historical Society on January 21, 2021. She has been active in fund-raising and programming for the historical society. A former administrator with...
The city of Aurora has been designated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as one of 1000 places in the United States that have seen history made by women. The action came after the Aurora Historical Society nominated Maud Powell, the 19th century...
