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Fitchburg Historical Society Meeting Talks

Apr 14, 2024 10,000 Years of Occupation by Elizabeth and Luther J. Leith
Oct 15, 2023 Swan Creek Sewing Circle by Eileen Kellor
Apr 23, 2023 Historical Places: Valuing Our Past and Moving into Our Future by Traci Schnell
Oct 27, 2022 Insights About a Growing City by Chad Brecklin
April 24, 2022 An Overview of Promega Corporation by Penny Patterson
April 24, 2022 Photos of the FHS Tour of Promega’s Kornberg Center
Nov 7, 2021 Using Land to Map your Genealogy by Patty Schmitt and Roger Laurel Tesch
Apr 25, 2021 The Life and Photographs of Ida Wyman  by Melanie Herzog
Nov 3, 2019  History of Women’s Suffrage  by Bob Kann and Winnie Lacy
Oct 28, 2018  History of the Fitchburg Historical Society by Carole Kinney and Allan Tereba
Oct 28, 2018  The Nevin Fish Hatchery by Jason Himebauch
Apr 22, 2018  Influenza Pandemic: Remembering 1918 and Dealing with the Flu Today  by Adrianne Imilkowski and  Professor Mary Mayney
Apr 17, 2016  How Cows Created Wisconsin  by Ed Janus
Nov 1, 2015  Ethnic Rural Architecture in Wisconsin  by Bill Tischler
Nov 1, 2015  Swan Creek Sewing Circle by Mary Kay Clark and Carole Kinney
Apr 6, 2014  Fight to Keep Tribal Status by Ada Deer
Nov 3, 2012  How the Wall Mural of the Fitchburg Village Was Made by Rich Eggleston
Oct 24, 2010  The Circus by Fred Dahlinger
Feb 28, 2010  Railroads That Once Ran Through Fitchburg by Verne Brummel
Mar 17, 2007  Irish Settlers In Old Fitchburg by Carole Kinney

Interviews on FACTv City of Fitchburg

April 10, 2024 10,000+ History of Fitchburg by Elizabeth and Luther Leith and Catherine Schneider
March 30, 2024 Building the Fitchburg library by Shawn Pfaff and Catherine Schneider
February 21, 2024 Funding the Fitchburg library by Phil Sveum and Catherine Schneider
February 2, 2024 Planning for the Fitchburg library by Marykay Zimbrick and Catherine Schneider
January 26, 2024 FHS Website Overview by Allan Tereba, Eileen Keller and Fitchburg Committee Of The Whole
December 20, 2023 Managing the Fitchburg library by Wendy Rawson and Catherine Schneider
November 30, 2023 Planning the Fitchburg library by Barbara Matthews and Catherine Schneider
September 25, 2023 Fitchburg Sewing Circle  by Eileen Kellor and Catherine Schneider
August 25, 2023 Jeanie Sieling Interview by Jeanie Sieling and Catherine Schneider
August 9, 2023 Shawn Pfaff Interview by Shawn Pfaff and Jeremy Crosby
June 24, 2023 Frances Huntley-Cooper by Frances Huntley-Cooper and Catherine Schneider
June 9, 2023 The Fitchburg School System by Eileen Kellor and Catherine Schneider
April 24, 2023 The Growth of Agrace by Liz Kopling and Catherine Schneider
April 2, 2023 Landmarks Preservation Commission by Mike Couillard and Catherine Schneider
March 1, 2023 Agrace Grief Center by Jessie Shiveler and Catherine Schneider
January 30, 2023 Mayor Aaron Richardson by Aaron Richardson and Catherine Schneider
December 22, 2022 Fitchburg development 3 by Tom Hovel and Catherine Schneider
November 24, 2022 Fitchburg development 2 by Tom Hovel and Catherine Schneider
October 28, 2022 Fitchburg development 1 by Tom Hovel and Catherine Schneider
September 25, 2022 FHS meeting preview by Chad Brecklin and Jeremy Crosby
August 26, 2022 Early Fitchburg by Catherine Schneider and Jeremy Crosby
July 21, 2022 Fitchburg 4-H by Carole Kinney, Ann White and Catherine Schneider
June 24, 2022 Fitchburg Historical Society Obituaries by Dianne Reynolds and Catherine Schneider
June 6, 2022  Certco during COVID by Amy Niemetscheck and Catherine Schneider
May 25, 2022 The 1950 Federal Census by Lori B Bessler and Catherine Schneider
April 23, 2022 Spring meeting preview by Catherine Schneider and Jeremy Crosby
March 17, 2022 Early Irish settlers in Fitchburg by Catherine Schneider and Jeremy Crosby
January 27, 2022 A new FHS board member by Shawn Pfaff and Jeremy Crosby
December 16, 2021 Quivey’s Grove during COVID by Craig Kuenning and Catherine Schneider
November 23, 2021 Fitchburg Senior Center during COViD by Amy Jordan, Sarah Folkers and Catherine Schneider
November 3, 2021 Preview of Fall meeting on Genealogy by Catherine Schneider
September 30, 2021 Real Estate During Covid by Pam Birschback and Catherine Schneider
August 26, 2021 Promega Provides COVID Testing  by Penny Patterson, Jennifer Romanin and Catherine Schneider
July 29, 2021 Blackhawk Church Fitchburg and the COVID pandemic by Pastor Daniel Owen and Catherine Schneider
July 1, 2021  Lead Road Routes of Fitchburg  by Catherine Schneider
May 27, 2021  FHS Interview with Kerri Modjeski  by Principal of Forest Edge Elementary School and Catherine Schneider
Mar 25, 2021  FHS Annual Meeting Update  by Catherine Schneider
Feb 25, 2021 FHS Interview with Pete Gunderson, owner of Guderson Funeral Services by Pete Gunderson and Catherine Schneider
Feb 4, 2021  FHS Interview with Mayor Richardson by Mayor Aaron Richardson and Catherine Schneider
Dec 3, 2020 The 2020 Elections in Fitchburg by Sonjia Short and Catherine Schneider
Oct 28, 2020  Documenting COVID-19 & FACTv by Jeremy Crosby and Catherine Schneider
Feb 27, 2020  Town to City by Marc Jones
Jan 30, 2020  FHS remembers Doug Morrissette by John Crook, Joyce Frey and Michael Zimmerman
Dec 26, 2019 Fitchburg agribusiness in the past, present, and future, part 2 by Roger Cohee
Dec 26, 2019 Fitchburg agribusiness in the past, present, and future, part 1 by Roger Cohee
Nov 20, 2019  Voting history in Fitchburg, WI by Winnie Lacy
Oct 31, 2019  Preview of fall meeting: How the Great Battle for Woman Suffrage was Won by Bob Kann and Fitchburg voting through the years by Winnie Lacy by Catherine Schneider
Aug 20, 2019  Memories of the Kellor Store by Marilyn Kellor Bogen, Florence Kellor Pleyte and Eileen Kellor
Aug 2, 2019  Tour of the Fitchburg Historical Society by Catherine Schneider
Jun 28, 2019  History of Fitchburg School System by Catherine Schneider
Feb 18, 2019  Fitchburg businesses by Rich Eggleston
Jan 31, 2019  FHS 2019 Update by Catherine Schneider
Dec 27, 2018  Doll Hospital by Ann O’Brien and Catherine Schneider
Oct 25, 2018  FHS Fall Meeting Preview by Adrianne Imilkowski
Aug 30, 2018  O’Brien House part 2 by Catherine Schneider
Aug 21, 2018  O’Brien House part 1 by Catherine Schneider
Jul 31, 2018  Early Fitchburg History by Adrianne Imilkowski
May 31, 2018  Becoming a City  by Rich Eggleston
May 10, 2018  Signature Quilt Display by Kathleen Maureen and Colleen O’Dea
Mar 1, 2018  1918 Flu Pandemic by Adrianne Imilkowski
Jan 25, 2018  Winter in old Fitchburg by Bill Kinney
Dec 21, 2017  Historical Christmas story by Catherine Schneider
Oct 26, 2017  George Vroman interview by George Vroman and Catherine Schneider
Sep 28, 2017  FHS Update on fall meeting by Catherine Schneider and Adam Dorn
Aug 24, 2017  Miniatures by Char Millisor
Jul 27, 2017  Fitchburg Fire Department by Chief Joe Pulvermacher and Catherine Schneider
Jun 29, 2017  Dairy history by Winnie Lacy and Eric Amilie
May 25 2017  Train Depot Bike Stop by Bill Hauda
Apr 27, 2017  World War I by Catherine Schneider and Dianne Reynolds
Mar 30, 2017  Centennial Farms by Adrianne Imilkowski
Mar 1, 2017  FHS website tour by Allan Tereba
Nov 2, 2016  The History of Quivey’s Gove Cooking by Adrianne Imilkowski
Oct 13, 2016  Food Traditions of our Neighborhood by Rich Eggleston
Sep 29, 2016  Early Fitchburg settler story by Rich Eggleston
Aug 25, 2016  How Fitchburg Became a City by Rich Eggleston
Aug 25, 2016  An old Fitchburg bear story by Rich Eggleston
Jul 20, 2016  New FHS President by Allan Tereba
Jun 30, 2016  Railroads in Fitchburg by Verne Brummel
Apr 17, 2016  Role of Dairy Farming in Wisconsin by Winnie Lacy and Catherine Schneider
Mar 10, 2016  Train History of Fitchburg by Verne Brummel
Nov 19, 2015  Fitchburg Historical Society by Catherine Schneider and Winnie Lacy