"What is
it?" A fun night of guessing at the
Logan County Genealogy and
Historical Society
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[Jan.
23, 2015]
LINCOLN
- In what has become an annual
tradition, the Logan County
Genealogical and Historical Society
turned its first meeting of the New
Year over to its membership on
Monday evening for a fun evening of
guessing "What is it?"
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Guests
and members were asked to bring in
treasured family items, especially
ones that were odd and old. The
object was not only to share them
with the members, but to try and
stump those in attendance as to what
the items actually were. When a
particularly strange object was
presented, the members shouted out
their guesses as to what they were
seeing. Sometimes the item was
identified quickly, while other
times it took longer.
In three cases, items brought by
Bill Donath, Gary Freese and Barbara
Stroud-Borth could not be
identified, even by their owners.
Their use had been lost in the mists
of family history.
Joanne Marlin brought two
Christmas tree candle holders, items
that would make it onto a current
list of dangerous items. The holders
were clipped to a branch on the tree
and a lighted candle placed in the
holder. Can you imagine the candle
burning down and igniting the pine
needles on the tree?
In the buggy whip time-category of
items that have faded from use,
Roseann Coers brought a button hook
for pulling buttons through button
holes on shoes, a necessary item
before laces were common.
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In addition to his unidentified
item, Bill Donath did provide one
special object that no one else
could identify. It turned out to be
a two sided butter mold for making
individual fancy butter pats with
the imprint of a pig on them.
The LCGHS meets the third Monday of
the month at 6:30 p.m. at their
research facility on Chicago Street
in Lincoln. In February, the group
will return to its regular format of
inviting a speaker with a unique
perspective on history to address
the meeting.
[Curt Fox]
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