It’s been busy spring at the Marion Heritage Center! At the beginning of the month, on Sunday, May 10, our own Sam Dillion gave a presentation entitled “Marion’s Train Past into the Future.” (His wife Jo ran the projector.) Sam, who grew up out East, has loved trains since early childhood. He was thrilled when...
The 2023 Art by Your Friends and Neighbors People’s Choice Award votes are in! We are happy to proclaim FIVE top choices in the voting this year since only FOUR VOTES separated number one from number five. Congratulations to this year’s winners! Special thanks to sponsor Hills Bank for providing cash prizes to our winners. Embroidery “Clematis” by...
Congratulations to the People’s Choice Award winners from the 2022 Art by Your Friends and Neighbors exhibit at the Marion Heritage Center. Special thanks to sponsor Hills Bank for providing $100 cash prizes to our winners. Visitors cast 478 votes at the annual exhibit held at the Marion Heritage Center which ended July 30. (shown left to right)...
Charlie Carrington wasn’t the first popcorn man in Marion’s City Square Park, nor was he the last. But he was there through the Depression and World War II, continuing a tradition that began in 1914. For twenty-two years, every afternoon from April into November, Charlie came to his little white stand, on the NE corner of the park; a shed...
What a pleasure it is to report the successful launch of a joint project involving Iowa History students at Marion High School, your Historical Society and the Friends of Oak Shade Cemetery. Thanks to an enthusiastic interest in Iowa and local history by MHS history teacher, Jonathan Mitchell, the first week-long unit was conducted during the first week of April this year....
