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Oswego museum hosts American flag exhibit marking nation’s 250th anniversary · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego Museum hosts American flag exhibit marking nation's two hundred
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  Speaker 1: fiftieth anniversary. Written by Shaw Local News Network, this article
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  Speaker 1: is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by Everlett. Oswego's Little White School Museum is hosting a
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  Speaker 1: new exhibit, It's a Grand Old Flag and a Banner
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  Speaker 1: Year for Oswego now through October in the museum's main
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  Speaker 1: floor Roger Matteel Room. The museum said the exhibit commemorates
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  Speaker 1: the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing of
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  Speaker 1: the Declaration of Independence. The museum is at seventy two
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  Speaker 1: Polk Street, Jackson at Polk Street, two blocks from Oswego's
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  Speaker 1: historic downtown business district. Admission is free, according to a
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  Speaker 1: news release from the museum. The exhibit features flags and
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  Speaker 1: banners from the museum's collections, including US flags, world War
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  Speaker 1: One and World War II service banners, commemorative banners and flags,
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  Speaker 1: and a special exhibit on the Revolutionary War in Northern Illinois.
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  Speaker 1: Among the items are a rare eighteen forties twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: star US flag and a forty six star US flag
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  Speaker 1: dating before the admission of Arizona and New Mexico to
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  Speaker 1: the Union in January and February of nineteen twelve. The
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  Speaker 1: museum said. The special exhibit on the Revolutionary War in
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  Speaker 1: Northern Illinois received major funding from the Amos Kendall Chapter
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  Speaker 1: of the Daughters of the American Revolution. According to the release,
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  Speaker 1: the museum said, it includes accounts of events in the
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  Speaker 1: Fox River Valley during the Revolutionary War era, when Colonel
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  Speaker 1: George Rogers Clark and his band worked to keep Illinois
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  Speaker 1: part of the new US. Regular museum hours are two
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  Speaker 1: to six thirty pm Thursdays, eleven am to three pm Fridays,
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  Speaker 1: nine am to two pm Saturdays and Sundays, and four
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  Speaker 1: to nine pm Mondays. The museum is closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
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  Speaker 1: For more information, call six three zero five five four
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  Speaker 1: two nine nine nine, email director at Little White Square
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  Speaker 1: Museum dot org, or visit www dot Little White School
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  Speaker 1: Museum dot org. This article was reformatted from a news
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  Speaker 1: release using artificial intelligence. A Shaw Local editor verified the information,
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  Speaker 1: edited the article and approved it before publication.