Events and Activities : CP HISTORICAL SOCIETY PLANS BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR ‘NEW’ 90 YEAR OLD PIANO

Money can make miracles happen--at least minor musical ones.   

Thanks to the major help of a grant from the Linn County Historic Preservation Commission and the Linn County Board of Supervisors, the Center Point Historical Society’s 1923 player piano is playing its heart out again. 

To celebrate the piano’s rebirth and 90th birthday the Historical Society decided at its last meeting to have a Player Piano Party on Sunday, May 5, from 2 to 4, at the Depot Museum.  Everyone is invited to come for old time music (There are piano rolls dated back to 1918.) and refreshments.  

It will also be the opening day of the 2013 Museum season, featuring Center Point and the Civil War.   Among the special displays is one on Center Point’s influential and active GAR post(Grand Army of the Republic Civil War veterans group).  

The Civil War displays, especially the ones about ancestors of locals involved in the war, will be works in progress throughout the summer, so if you have stories/photos/artifacts about a Civil War relative or “Civil War home front life” to share, please contact Sharon Hannen, 849-1792.  The Historical Society hopes to collect and preserve a more complete picture of the Center Point community during the almost unimaginable-to-us-now Civil War times. 

The Depot Museum will be open, free, every Sunday from 2 to 4, from May 5 through October 13.  If you want to get in on the planning and doing of this fascinating Civil War year with the Society, regular meetings are on the last Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Depot Museum and everyone is welcome.