BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//James Millikin Homestead - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:James Millikin Homestead
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://jamesmillikinhomestead.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for James Millikin Homestead
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20240101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251109T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251109T160000
DTSTAMP:20260514T214329
CREATED:20250925T224856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250925T224856Z
UID:1064-1762693200-1762704000@jamesmillikinhomestead.com
SUMMARY:The 83rd Illinois\, Wyatt Earp\, John Wayne and the Unique Historical Connections of the Civil War in Western Illinois
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Eugene Watkins will present from 1-2 pm and then from 2-4 pm there will be a public open house. $5 admission per person. Those who attend the presentation do not need to pay for the open house. For this special\, one-day event\, a number of Civil War artifacts will be on display in our History Room\, on loan from the Macon County History Museum!\n\nABOUT DR. WATKINS\nDr. Watkins holds a PhD in United States history\, focusing on the Early Republic\, from the University of Toledo\, a MA in Civil War and Reconstruction from the University of Richmond and a BA in United States History from Millikin University. He worked for the Ohio Historical Society at its Fort Meigs site for about five years and then became director of Old Fort Madison in Fort Madison\, IA\, where he worked for about fifteen years. Dr. Watkins has been the Pattee Executive Director of the Warren County History Museum in Monmouth\, IL for the past two years.\n\nThe 83rd Illinois\, Wyatt Earp\, John Wayne and the Unique Historical Connections of the Civil War in Western Illinois.\n\nDr. Watkins’ lecture will use the experiences of the 83rd Illinois\, an infantry regiment recruited heavily from Warren County\, as a window to highlight unique people and events in the Civil War associated with Illinois\, that many times go unnoticed in the larger picture of that great conflict’s story.
URL:https://jamesmillikinhomestead.com/event/the-83rd-illinois-wyatt-earp-john-wayne-and-the-unique-historical-connections-of-the-civil-war-in-western-illinois/
LOCATION:James Millikin Homestead\, 125 N Pine st\, Decatur\, IL\, 62522\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jamesmillikinhomestead.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/JMHnov25.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="James Millikin Homestead":MAILTO:info@jamesmillikinhomestead.com
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR