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  • Monday, October 20, 2014 - 10:19am
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    15th Annual Eagle Day Festival and Wildlife Art and Poetry Contest
    The upcoming 15th Annual Eagle Day Festival and Wildlife Art and Poetry Contest, sponsored by Dickson Mounds State Museum, Forbes Biological Station, Fulton County Arts Council, Havana Public Library District, Illinois River Biological Station, Mason County Arts Council, The Nature Conservancy, Therkildsen Field Station and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, will be on Saturday, February 7, 2015.  This event will be held in conjunction with the Eagle Day Festival at Dickson Mounds Museum and is open to all students in Grades 1-12 in Fulton and Mason Counties.  Get your entry forms and contest rules here.
  • Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 9:55am
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    Eagle Day Celebrations in Havana and Lewistown
    Family-friendly Eagle Day events will be held at a variety of venues all day in Havana, Lewistown, the Emiquon Preserve, and Dickson Mounds Museum on Saturday, February 8, 2014.  Admission is free at all of the events.
  • Thursday, August 9, 2012 - 4:06pm
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    August Science Lecture Series - Meteor Showers !
    Dickson Mounds Museum and the University of Illinois at Springfield’s Therkildsen Field Station at Emiquon (TFSE) present a two-part presentation: Meteor Showers - Bringing Visitors from Outer Space as the Second Sunday Science Lecture Series topic on August 12, 2012.
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 3:39pm
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    Archaeology Topic of June Second Sunday Lecture
    Second Sunday Science Lecture Series on Sunday, June 10, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. in the Museum’s auditorium.  This month’s topic is Morton Site Archaeology presented Dr. Michael Conner.  The Morton Village, a prehistoric Native American site, dates to about A.D. 1350. Work at the site, which began in 2008, is a joint venture of Dickson Mounds Museum and Dr. Jodie O’Gorman of Michigan State University with the cooperation of The Nature Conservancy.
  • Friday, April 27, 2012 - 2:02pm
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    May Science Lectures focuses on Prairie Flowers
    "Not Just Pretty Flowers:  Restoration in the Age of Global Change."
  • Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 10:59am
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    March 2nd Sunday Lecture Series
    The next Emiquon Partnership monthly science lecture series will be on Sunday, March 11, 2012, at 2:00 p.m. in the Dickson Mounds Museum auditorium.  The presentation is titled, "The Fishes of Thompson Lake" and will be presented by T.D. VanMiddlesworth, aquatic biologist at the Illinois Natural History Survey’s, Illinois River Biological Station in Havana, IL.  
  • Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 5:38pm
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    Eagle Day Festival at Dickson Mounds Museum
    Dickson Mounds Museum is the location for a day-long Eagle Day Festival on Saturday, February 11, 2012.  This event, which is co-sponsored by the Fulton County Arts Council, the Mason County Arts Council, the Havana Nature Center,  The Nature Conservancy, the Havana Library District, Lewistown Chamber, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is free to the public.
  • Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 3:12pm
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    Science & the Illinois River Valley - Science Lecture Series
    Dickson Mounds Museum Director Dr Michael Wiant kicked off the new Science Lecture Series on Sunday, January 8, 2012.    
  • Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 3:04pm
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    Science Lecture Series
    Beginning January 2012, join us for a variety of presentations on the second Sunday of each month at 2:00pm. 
  • Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 3:20pm
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    Science Lecture Series Begins at Dickson Mounds
    The Emiquon Partnership will launch a monthly science lecture series on Sunday, January 8, 2012, at 2 p.m. in the Dickson Mounds Museum auditorium. The kick-off presentation is titled "The Life and Times of the Illinois River"to be presented by Dr. Michael Wiant, Director of Dickson Mounds.