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		<title>Kibbe Museum on Illinois Stories</title>
		<link>http://kibbe.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/kibbe-museum-on-illinois-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark McDonald recently visited the Kibbe to learn about our acquisition of the collection from the Museum of Funeral Customs.  This story is focused on the MFC collection, how it came to happen, how we did it, and future plans for exhibition.  The show airs on Thursday, 31 March at 7:30pm and Friday, 1 April [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kibbe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3470028&amp;post=247&amp;subd=kibbe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Colusa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ruthlovesbirds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four leading men of Colusa Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kibbe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3470028&amp;post=232&amp;subd=kibbe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning a New Trick</title>
		<link>http://kibbe.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/learning-a-new-trick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My name is Ruth and I am the Museum employee who scanned in most of the pictures of the World War II exhibit. Now that I have learned to scan the images the next step in my training is to work on posting articles to the web site. Below is one of my favorite images [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kibbe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3470028&amp;post=213&amp;subd=kibbe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom from Want: The Shay family in Hancock County</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kibbe Museum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first settlers came to Hancock County after 1832.  The motivations of the men and women who have come here ever since are varied:  land grants, religious freedom, or the prospect of a fresh start on open land are just a few of the reasons.  This exhibit marks the first in a proposed series about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kibbe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3470028&amp;post=206&amp;subd=kibbe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All hands on deck: a new online exhibit</title>
		<link>http://kibbe.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/all-hands-on-deck-a-new-online-exhibit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kibbe Museum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Click on the image above to start the slideshow. Once the show starts, click on any image to view the captions.) The Kibbe Museum is pleased to place online a permanent archive of U.S. Navy photographs taken during World War II. These images were the collection of Commander Raymon Powell. Raymon Powell served as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kibbe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3470028&amp;post=195&amp;subd=kibbe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hancock County Banking</title>
		<link>http://kibbe.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/145/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kibbe Museum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early settlement of Hancock County there were no banks nor, indeed, was there any demand for banks.  The pioneers who came here from the east and south, as a rule, were men of limited means and their means had been converted to coin before they set out for this wild and uncultivated land, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kibbe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3470028&amp;post=145&amp;subd=kibbe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faith of our forefathers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stained glass window from Trinity Lutheran Church, Carthage, IL. Circa 1873. In the 1800&#8242;s, 256 churches were established in Hancock County, Illinois.  The church exhibit at the Kibbe Museum has photographs, histories, and a variety of interesting artifacts from these churches.  Many of these churches have closed as the rural population declined and the automobile [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kibbe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3470028&amp;post=139&amp;subd=kibbe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Classical Education</title>
		<link>http://kibbe.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/classical-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 18:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kibbe Museum</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ephemera]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[   From a banquest, 4 May, 1882, the humorous opening: &#8220;The Carthage Classical School &#8212; It has its birth in a dingy little upper room all hollow, hollow, hollow.  That room was located at a point bisecting the base of an isoceles triangle at whose vertex stood the great and massive capitol of Hancock County, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kibbe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3470028&amp;post=134&amp;subd=kibbe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Between a rock and an archeological dig</title>
		<link>http://kibbe.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/between-a-rock-and-an-archeological-dig/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kibbe Museum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, 7 March 2010, the Kibbe was pleased to host Dave Nolan, an archeaologist from the Illinois Transportation Archaeological Program (ITARP), for a presentation on the significant aboriginal finds during pre-construction work along the highway 136/336 expansion between Carthage and Macomb, Illinois. This was an eye-opening peek into the ways that archaeologists can interpret [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kibbe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3470028&amp;post=132&amp;subd=kibbe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating February with Valentines and Lincoln Memorabilia</title>
		<link>http://kibbe.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/celebrating-february-with-valentines-and-lincoln-memorabilia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kibbe Museum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kibbe Museum is closed in February, but we&#8217;ve updated our public exhibit on the west side of the square with a selection of antique valentines and a small tribute to President Lincoln, including a torch that was carried at a campaign rally in LaHarpe.&#160; Stop by and enjoy the sentiments! Filed under: Ephemera, Lincoln<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kibbe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3470028&amp;post=129&amp;subd=kibbe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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