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Oswego museum celebrates nation’s 250th birthday with flag exhibit · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego Museum celebrates nation's two hundred and fiftieth birthday with
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  Speaker 1: Oswego's Little White School Museum will host a new temporary exhibit,
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  Speaker 1: It's a Grand Old Flag and a Banner Year for Oswego,
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  Speaker 1: starting Friday, July third, in the museum's Roger matteel Room.
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  Speaker 1: The museum is located at seventy two Polk Street, Jackson
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  Speaker 1: at Polk Street, just two blocks from Oswego's historic downtown
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  Speaker 1: business district. Admission is free. The exhibit will feature a
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  Speaker 1: huge variety of flags and banners from the museum's collections,
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  Speaker 1: including US flags, World War I and World War II
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  Speaker 1: service banners, commemorative banners and flags, a special exhibit on
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  Speaker 1: the Revolutionary War in Northern Illinois, and more. Among the
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  Speaker 1: items planned for the exhibit are a rare eighteen forty
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight star Great Star pattern US flag and a
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  Speaker 1: forty six star US flag dating before the admission of
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  Speaker 1: Arizona and New Mexico to the Union in January and
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  Speaker 1: February of nineteen twelve. The exhibit of the Revolutionary War
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  Speaker 1: in Northern Illinois, with major funding by the Amos Kendall
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  Speaker 1: Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, will also
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  Speaker 1: include information on what was happening in the Fox River
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  Speaker 1: Valley during that era. Regular museum hours are Thursdays two
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  Speaker 1: to six thirty pm, Fridays eleven am to three pm,
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  Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday nine am to two pm, and Mondays
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  Speaker 1: four to nine pm. The museum is closed Tuesdays and
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  Speaker 1: Wednesdays dot. For more information, call six three zero five
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  Speaker 1: five four two nine ninety nine, email director at Little
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  Speaker 1: White School Museum dot org, or visit their website at
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  Speaker 1: ww dot Little White School Museum dot org.