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Reddick Mansion offers free admission to military families this summer · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Reddick Mansion offers free admission to military families this summer.
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  Written by Shaw Local News Network, this article is being
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  read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  The Reddic Mansion will offer free admission to all active
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  duty military personnel and their families this summer as part
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  of the Blue Star Museum's program. The initiative, a collaboration
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  of the National Endowments for the Arts, Blue Star Families,
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  the Department of Defense, and more than two thousand museums
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  across America, runs from Armed Forces Day on Saturday, May
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  sixteenth through Labor Day on Monday, September seventh. The Reddic
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  Mansion is proud to be part of this national appreciation program,
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  said Lorraine McAllister, President of the Reddick Mansion Association. It
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  is one way for us to express our gratitude to
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  military families for their sacrifice, service and dedication. We look
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  forward to showing them the Jewel of Ottawa, one of
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  Ottawa's cultural treasures. The Reddick Mansion, built in eighteen fifty eight,
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  is listed on the National Register of Historic Sites. The
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  mansion is open for tours Friday through Monday, with tours
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  offered at eleven am and one pm. It is located
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  at one hundred West Lafayette Street, Ottawa. The mansion also
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  has rental space available for special events. A complete list
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  of participating Blue Star Museums is available at AWW dot
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  Arts dot gov slash blue Dash Star Dash Museum's dash
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  map