2015 Archives - Portage Community Historical Society

October 2015 Newsletter

Christmas on the farm Saturday, December 5, 10 am—4 pm and Sunday, December 6, 12 noon until 4:00 pm Our favorite Santa and Mrs. Claus will be greeting the children, pictures, kids crafts, cookies and punch We will have the farmhouse and new museum decorated for the holiday. Charles Herman Harper We were not going […]

August 2015 Newsletter

We Are Moving To The Barn At the recent Park Board meeting we were told that the barn will be finished by the end of August so that means the first two weeks in September will be the move. Festival Raffle First prize of a tour of the mansion went to Linda Kozlowski of Schererville, […]

June 2015 Newsletter

Inside this issue: Belle Gunness Debbie Parker, Bruce Johnson and I took behind the scenes pictures during the filming of the movie. It was a neat experience and glad to be a part of it. I have posters made of the pictures we took and they will be in the farmhouse during the festival. Also, […]

February 2015 Newsletter

In This Issue Museum Move At a meeting just a few weeks ago we were informed that the Park Department has plans on finishing the Trager Barn at Countryside and moving our current museum to the second floor of the barn New Logo for 2015 Debbie Parker created several new updates to our logos and […]