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• Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins: Inside Early Baseball in Illinois (4/15/2023 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
  4/15/2023 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  

  Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins: Inside Early Baseball in Illinois

  Robert D. Sampson will be talking about and signing copies of his book, Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins: Inside Early Baseball in Illinois, at 11 a.m., April 15 at Books on the Square, 427 East Washington Street, Springfield.

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• Celebrating the Mississippi River Festival (4/16/2023 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM)
  4/16/2023 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

  Celebrating the Mississippi River Festival

  Mark Pierce, author of “When the Stars Came Out: Stories of the Mississippi River Festival,” will be the presenter for the April Madison County Historical Society’s Speaker Series on Sunday, April 16 at 2.p.m.

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• Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins: Inside Early Baseball in Illinois (4/24/2023 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
  4/24/2023 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

  

  Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins: Inside Early Baseball in Illinois

  Robert D. Sampson talks about his new book, Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins, a first-ever history of early baseball in Illinois that adds the Prairie State game’s unique shadings and colorful stories to the history of the national pastime.

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• Quincy Civil War Symposium (4/28/2023 - 4/29/2023)
  4/28/2023 - 4/29/2023

  Quincy Civil War Symposium

  Sponsored by the Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County of the Tri-States
  Civil War Round Table
  
  For more information: (217) 222-1835
  Registration: www.hsqac.com

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• 2023 "Best of Illinois History" Awards and Annual Meeting Banquet (4/29/2023 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM)
  4/29/2023 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

  

  2023 "Best of Illinois History" Awards and Annual Meeting Banquet

  Mark your calendars! The Illinois State Historical Society will host its 124th Annual Meeting this year at the Hoogland Center for the Arts in Springfield on April 29, 2023. At this time, the ISHS will recognize the ISHS's "Best of Illinois History" award recipients for 2023. Twenty-nine remarkable nominees will be honored and awarded for their outstanding achievements and publications on Illinois history.

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