On Sunday, June 19 Bob Milne played ragtime and boogie woogie on Blind Boone’s piano in the Mont-miny Gallery. It was a world-class

event for several reasons. The piano is a one-and –o nly in the world and the guests of honor were

Bill Crawford and Lucille Salerno—who had ma-jor roles in preserving the piano and bringing it home to Columbia. Moreover, Milne, who lives in Lapeer, Michigan, is the world’s premier player of ragtime, and had earlier inaugurated the piano’s resettlement to Boone’s home town.

This show was as good as it gets, celebrated by a packed house and at the end, a standing ova-tion. Impresario Bill Clark once again staged a seri-ously good program. Starting the show was nine-year-old Andrew Wilbur playing four lively num-bers. Milne peppered his piano pieces with enter-taining stories about the historical origin of the songs. He even sang a few old favorites. On several pieces he gave the 2,000-pound instrument a real test, as legend says Boone used to do. Milne, who plays by ear, seemingly knows every ragtime tune and hundreds of gospel and early American melo-dies to boot. He would begin one of these favorites in a rather familiar cadence and then launch into a breath-taking rendition that made us imagine how Boone would have played it.

Be sure to see the coming shows, including pia-nist Anthony Hernandez on Monday, July 18. He is followed by the musical Keithahn family on Monday, September 12. The talented and charming Keithahn’s will be fea-tured in the first act and local pianist Carrie Conklin will star in the second act. Sutu Forté and Nashville’s Jake Clayton will appear together on December 5 and 6. Have you ever heard Sutu and Jake? If not, don’t miss that ‘Country Holiday Show’! And, if so, how can you resist a repeat? Clayton is Nashville’s “Lord of the Strings.” Forte is the “Queen” of everything she surveys. The two are dynamite together. Call 573-443-8936 ext. 310 now to re-serve your tickets for Anthony Hernandez on July 18!

(Editor’s note) The Bob Milne Ragtime concert was made possible by sponsors Bob & Nancy Martin, Hank Waters, Dianne Miller & Joe Treacy and

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Ragtime and Boogie Woogie!! By Hank Waters

Friday, July 8 – 6p-8p Artists Reception

for Jon Luvelli, Montminy

Monday, July 11 – 10:30am Maplewood Comm. Mtg.

Wednesday, July 13 – 4pm

Executive Comm. Mtg.

Saturday, July 16 – 10:30am Meet the Author

Featuring ‘Sparkle Abbey’

Monday, July 18 – 1pm Acquisitions Comm. Mtg

Monday, July 18 – 7pm

Blind Boone Piano Concert Featuring Anthony Hernandez

Wednesday, July 20 – 2pm Historic Sites Comm. Mtg.

Sons of Confederate Vets—7pm

Thursday, July 21—4:30pm Endowment Trust Board Mtg.

Fiddlers Jam Session, 5pm – 7pm

Monday, July 25 – 10:30am Maplewood Comm. Mtg.

Wednesday, July 27 – 4pm

Board of Directors Mtg

Monday, August 8 — 9am Hall of Fame Tickets go on sale

Just around the corner…2nd Annual Stables Tour by Janet Thompson

Mark your calendars for October 15!!! On that day, BCHS will be hosting the Second Annual Boone County Stables Tour, which will fea-ture six of the wonderfully diverse stables here in Boone County. The Stables Tour Committee, comprised of Judy Wood, Hattie Francis, Deb-bie Thomas, Wilson Beckett, Ted Webber, Ann Cleek, Lissa Gaw-Orscheln, Mary Lee Gentry, Chris Campbell and Janet Thompson, is working to produce a world-class event at these six spectacular venues in a relaxed, fun-filled setting. Featured in the Tour will be Stephens College Equestrian Center, with its historical site designation; High Spirits Farm, home to world and national champion American Saddle-breds and Hackney ponies, and the site of the original Tom Bass home; Glendale Stables, a training and instruction facility on one of Boone County's Century Farms; Jim Dudley Quarter Horses, a facility that draws individuals from around the world to study the art and science of developing reining horse; Fox Run Stables, a boarding stable for dres-sage, eventing, and jumping enthusiasts, and Brenda Benner Stables, with its training and riding instruction offerings in saddle, stock and hunt seat disciplines, combined with a "horse nursery" featuring lots of beautiful American Saddlebred babies. At each stable, visitors will be treated to distinct aspects of the horse industry, from pleasure riding, to riding lessons, to performance horses and riders on the local, regional and national levels. Distinct from the inaugural Tour, this year's Tour will also provide opportunities for visi-tors to enjoy activities related to horses, including conversations with Katie Moeller, a world champion rider who was recently awarded the Second Runner-Up title in the Miss Missouri pageant, about the value to young people from involvement with horses; photo opportunities with Shadows in the Sky, the champion American Saddlebred you see on the announcement for the Tour (see page 2), and a stick horse rodeo! The Committee will be rolling out the schedule later this summer, along with information about where tickets can be purchased. So, get ready to enjoy Boone County and see firsthand one of its most exciting assets!!

Bob Milne Andrew Wilbur

Charles Hargrove Photos

Milne peppered his piano pieces with entertaining stories about the historical origin of the songs.

Guests of honor Lucille Salerno and Bill Crawford share much of the credit for the piano’s existence here today.

See page 8 for more about the sellout audience for the Bob Milne concert.

BOONE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

BOARD of DIRECTORS 2016

President

Wilson Beckett

Vice President

Bill Powell

Secretary

Marjorie Motley

Treasurer

Jim Marberry

Past President

Dick Otto

Carolyn Doyle ~ Joyce Kemner ~ Karen Moore

Gene Baumann ~ Charlie Lee

Mike Hood ~ Owen Jackson

Valerie Shaw ~ Joan Bay - Alice Reese

Heather Hargrove

BCHS ENDOWMENT TRUST

BOARD of TRUSTEES

President

Betsy Odle

Treasurer

Lynn Behrns

Secretary

Tim Dollens

TRUSTEES

Michelle Baumstark ~ Wilson Beckett

Jim Marberry ~ Karen M. Miller ~ Phil Prather

Marvin Sapp ~ Barbara Weaver

MUSEUM & GALLERY ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Executive Director & Curator

Chris Campbell

Office Manager and Membership Coordinator

Mary Lee Gentry

Finance

J.L. Kris Christopher

Property Manager

John Fetters

Associate Curators

Liz Kennedy ~ Sue Viola ~ Laurel Wilson

The Walters-Boone County Museum and Galleries are located at

3801 Ponderosa St, Columbia, MO 65201 Museum Hours: 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday through Saturday 12 Noon—4:30 p.m. Sunday

Phone: (573) 443-8936 Email: officemanager@boonehistory.org

OR chriscampbell@boonehistory.org Website: BooneHistory.org

Facebook: boonecountymuseum&galleries Twitter: @boonemuseum

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What’s happening in the Museum and Galleries?

Join us in welcoming these new BCHS members, all of Columbia : Sarah Laupp, Gary & Patricia Coles,

John David Phillipe, Michael & Rose Porter

A complete membership roster is enclosed as a special insert with this month’s newsletter.

Welcome New Members

Meet the Author Welcomes the Fun and Frivolous

Pampered Pets Mystery Series By Carrie Koepke, Meet the Author Coordinator

Last month author Carolyn Mulford shared both her Show Me mys-tery series and her new YA novel about the New Madrid earthquakes. Meet the Author attendees were able to learn a great deal about all of her works, not included in the books, as she shared the importance of research and knowledge. Mulford also shared her fascinating career history, in-cluding journalism, freelance writing and editing, and work with the Unit-ed Nations, which all helped her eventual return to a childhood dream of writing fiction.

On July 16 Meet the Author is proud to host Sparkle Abbey for their Columbia de-but. Mary Lee Woods and Anita Carter co-author the Pampered Pets Mystery Series. Sparkle Abbey is their appropriate pen name, taken from their rescue pets. Woods owns Sparkle the cat and Carter has Abbey the dog. The Iowa-based team feature the posh side of Laguna Beach, California as the setting for their

series. This setting is enhanced by a fictional and hilarious pet world and an interesting dynamic be-tween the main characters and Texas cousins. One cousin is a pet therapist, the other a pet boutique owner. Join us to learn more about collaborative writing, their individual accomplishments, and how genre writing and animal rescue came together to create a fun and entertaining best-selling series.

Doors open at 9:30 am. Admission and Cof-fee are FREE! Harold’s Doughnuts will be availa-ble beginning at 10:00 am, and Sparkle Abbey will speak at 10:30 am.

Your BCHS experienced a successful weekend at the Columbia Art League’s Art in the Park event on June 4 and 5. Several volunteers manned our exhibit tent and shared our mission and programs with hun-dreds of visitors. Thank you Ben Cameron, Wilson Beckett, Owen Jackson, Mary Jo Herde, Mike Hood, Mary Lee Gentry, Dick Otto and Gary Smith for making it all possible.

Central Bank of Boone County has confirmed its participation as the Presenting Sponsor (Platinum) of the 2016 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony once again. President Joe Henderson delivered the sponsor-ship check personally. The staff, the Endowment Trust Board and the BCHS Board of Directors are all immensely grateful for this extraordinary and ongoing support from our friends at Central Bank of Boone County.

The Fred V. and Dorothy H. Heinkel Family Charitable Foundation has granted the Society funds to purchase six desperately needed computers. This is an incredibly important contribution. The staff’s computers are 7 years old and the software and hardware components are no longer reliable or safe. The grant funds will allow us to purchase 2016 Win-dows 10 desktops and laptops for use throughout the building. (So long 2009 Windows 7 desktops!)

Member Mike Lynch has been busy. He has gen-erously donated his time and skill to a wall repair in the Director’s office, as well as installing new LED lamps and electrical conduit in the vaults. Thanks to Mike, several of the vaults have much improved light-ing – something the Museum Committee is very thank-ful for.

A new credit card processing machine from Landmark Bank has come to the front desk in the Mu-seum Store. Long overdue, the new chip technology processes all swipes in the same manner, no matter whether debit or credit cards. No pin entry is neces-sary and no signature is required for purchases under $50. Furthermore, the fees associated with the new machine are much less than the Society expensed over the last several years with leased equipment from a third party. Annual savings are estimated to be approx-imately $1,000. The staff asks that all front desk do-cents see Office Manager Mary Lee Gentry about the very simple training needed to use the new machine at the time of their next assignment.

The Travel Channel’s television program Myster-ies at the Museum recently visited the Walters-Boone County Historical Museum! The production team

spent Sunday, July 3, videotaping our grounds, our exhibits and, very specifically, our artifacts relating to Korla Pandit. You may remember that BCHS sponsored a documentary about this famed Columbian last autumn at Ragtag Cinema. More information on the TV show’s visit here and a future broadcast date will be found in future News & Notes editions. We are thrilled that our museum will soon be receiving nation-al recognition on this cable television program – a pro-gram that celebrates the treasures that can be found in our nation’s thousands of museums.

On June 11 city-contracted crews began excava-tion and laying gravel to form the bed of the new, ex-tended parking lot. It’s rewarding to finally see pro-gress on this terrific park improvement made possible

both by the Columbia voters who passed the 1/8 cent parks sales tax renewal last November and the Cosmo-politan Luncheon Club in Columbia. The ‘Cosmos’ pledged $125,000 to create a new family shelter, Nifong Park’s first playground and this 72-car parking lot expansion which will be attached to our existing lot. Our sincere gratitude goes to the Columbia Parks and Recreation Department and the Cosmos!

* This year's Heritage Festival is September 17 and 18 and the Museum Committee is looking for handmade items to sell at the veranda tables. If you have something handmade to donate, please

contact Sue Viola at researchlibrary@boonehistory.org. Additionally, if you have any fabric or yarn to donate, that would also be appreciated. * Volunteer Tour Guides needed! We are fortunate to host 50 children on each of two consecutive Wednesdays this month in the Village and the Museum. The groups are from the Fun City Youth Academy in Columbia. We will need 4 docents at 1pm on both Wednesday, July 13 and Wednesday, July 20. No more than 2 hours each day. Our docents should be able to provide a walking tour of all four Village buildings and a brief overview of the history exhibits in the east and west galleries of the main building. Contact Mary Lee Gentry to sign up for this fun opportunity.

* BCHS is reconstituting a Village Committee. Volunteers are needed to join Board Vice President Bill Powell in this effort. The hours of time requested for this service are not great. The Village would be hugely assisted with a committee which meets quarterly to discuss maintenance, programming and cleaning. Call or email the Museum staff if you are interested in being contacted by Bill about this opportunity.

Needed!

Websites of Interest B.C.H.S. Facebook Page:

https://business.facebook.com/boonehistory

Boone County Historical Society Website:

http://boonehistory.org

Centralia Historical Society Museum:

http://centraliamomuseum.org

Genealogical Society of Boone County and Central Missouri:

http://boonecomogen.org/

Daniel Boone Reg. Library Community Sites:

http://www.dbrl.org/community

Osher Institute for Lifelong Learning:

http://extension.missouri.edu/learnforlife

Museum of Art and Archeology:

https://maa.missouri.edu/

Columbia College Arts and Music

https://web.ccis.edu/departments/visualartsandmusic

Wanted! Historic Sites! By Dianne Hart Miller

Do you have an interesting house, commercial building, or whatever, with historical significance in your neighborhood, anywhere in Boone County? Would you like to see it recognized by the rest of the county? If you think you might have a suggestion for a nomination for a Boone County Historic Site, we’d love to hear from you. Just contact Dianne Miller, Chairman of Historic Sites, at 573-445-2453, or di-mill@aol.com.

Genealogical Society News

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Supporting Corporations and Foundations

Area businesses and grant-funding foundations help make many programs and exhibits possible each year. Through their membership gifts and in kind donations of good and services these community leaders make a difference and deserve our gratitude and patronage. A special thanks to these foundations, agencies and businesses:

The 1820 Club $10,000-$25,000

The Fred V. & Dorothy H. Heinkel Charitable Foundation Boone County Community Trust

Raul Walters Properties

Platinum Donors $2,500- $9,999 Atkins Building Services

Boone Electric Cooperative Community Trust Caledon Virtual Marketing

Central Bank of Boone County City of Columbia, Convention & Visitors Bureau

City of Columbia, Office of Cultural Affairs Columbia Daily Tribune Mid-Missouri Electric

Silver $1,000-$2,499 Commercial Marketing, LLC

D&M Sound Dave Griggs Flooring America Marberry & Eagle PC, CPAs

McAdams’ Ltd. Mediacom

Shelter Insurance Smith Lewis, LLC

Socket

Premium Level $500-$999 Central Brace Co. Coastal Electric Commerce Bank

Orscheln Farm & Home, Paris Rd. Smith Lewis, LLP

Patron level $250-$499 Aaron’s Sales & Lease, “Tiger” John Cleek

C&C Construction Columbia Board of Realtors Johnston Paint & Decorating

Landmark Bank Plaza Commercial Realty

Van Matre, Harrison, Taylor, Hollis & Elliott, PC

Supporters $100-$249 Alley A Realty

American Shoe, Downtown Columbia Available Jones

Cosmos Breakfast Club Fox Run Properties

Harlan, Harlan & Still, Attys Hartsburg Grand

LaBrunerie Financial Midway Enterprises

Missouri Horse Show Association

By Rob Taylor

Our library has received a box of government loan

records and a box of files researched by Virginia Christopher of Fulton. Virginia was a member of the DAR in Fulton. The records are from Fulton and Boone County. The library committee needs help in sorting, filing, and getting these files to the proper organization. If you can help, contact Mary Lusk or Nancy Waller Thomas. This is a good project when you are volunteering at the library.

We don’t meet in August, but encourage our mem-bers to attend the annual Missouri State Genealogical Association (MoSGA) conference. This year’s key-note speaker will be John Philip Colletta, and his spe-cialty is tracing immigrant ancestors. Our own Nancy Waller Thomas will present a session entitled “Genetic Genealogy 101: DNA Basics”. The confer-ence will be held August 5-6 (Friday and Saturday) at the Stoney Creek Hotel & Conference Center in Co-lumbia. For more information or to register, go to www.mosga.org.

The Genealogical Society of Boone County and Central Missouri meets the first Tuesday each month, except August, at 7:00 p.m. at the Boone Electric Building at 1413 Rangeline in Columbia. We operate the Wilson-Wulff Genealogical and History Library. Membership benefits include meeting people with shared interests, research trips, monthly programs, quarterly journal, and a newsletter. Learn more at boonecomogen.org.

Major Gifts in June

2016 Blind Boone Piano Concert Series Schedule

July 18 — Pianist Anthony Hernandez performing Broadway, Jazz and Classical Selections

September 12 — The Keithahn Family (Act 1) & pianist Carrie Conklin (Act 2) December 5 & 6 — A Country Holiday Concert

Starring Sutu Forté and Jake Clayton

New Acquisitions

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In the Montminy Gallery

(All contributions are for $200 or more) Hank Waters and Vicki Russell

$1,000 renewed membership Virginia Itschner

$200 membership renewal Central Bank of Boone County $4,000 Hall of Fame Sponsorship

Dick and Shannon Walls $300 membership renewal

Dorothy Rankin $1,000 Summer Give contribution

Susan & Hank Stoltz $500 Membership renewal and Summer Give gift

Bob & Shirley Bedsworth $1,000 Summer Give contribution

McAdams’ Ltd $500 Summer Give contribution

Don & Sally Schilling $200 Summer Give contribution

Bill Crawford $250 Summer Give contribution

D. Joe & Veralee Phillips $200 Summer Give contribution

Mary Ann Shaw $200 Summer Give contribution

Marvin & Kathleen Sapp $200 Summer Give contribution Dr. Lenard & Mary Lu Politte

$1,000 Summer Give contribution Wilson and Jan Beckett

$500 membership renewal & a $1,000 Summer Give contribution

Kenneth E. Clark $550 Summer Give contribution

Marberry & Eagle, CPAs $1,000 Hall of Fame Sponsorship

Editors Note: The Summer Give donations listed above do not include all of our wonderful donors. At the time of this printing we are only 14 days into Summer Give. We thank you for all of the donations and we will produce a complete list of donors in the August News & Notes.

Thank you one and all! ——————————————

Museum Acquisitions – June By Sue Viola

Karen Miller: Boone County political memorabilia

Dave Griggs: 1983 Radio Shack computer Liz Kennedy: flint glass jar

Roberta McCard: 1950s era talking cow toy Carolyn Spier: 1950’s television set

Dave Russell: 4 Garth Russell portraits

Norma Nyberg: two rockers, quilt Audrey Oglesby: Wilcox-Gibb sewing machine

Thank you all for your generous gifts!

The Montminy is a welcome home to all types of art mediums and all stripes of artists. It is not what those less familiar with it often predict or think it is - a place for ‘historically-themed’ art relating to Boone County. It is instead a gallery that celebrates art just for art’s sake. It is with that in mind, that the Montminy is proud to introduce a Columbia photographer who sees people, places and things in a unique and unexpected manner.

Jon Luvelli will tell you on first introduction that he is a ‘street photographer’. What you discover as you get acquainted with Jon is that he doesn’t like to be boxed in. Just like many of his subjects, he refuses to be conforming or labeled as just another portrait or land-scape photographer. His work varies from pastoral, ru-ral landscapes found here in Boone County – his home turf – to the back alleys of Columbia’s downtown be-tween midnight and 6am. Every image is composed in black and white.

His portraits depict a slice of Columbia we don’t of-ten see – if ever. Thus, the exhibit title, Unseen Colum-bia. The faces are those of rebels, misfits, mavericks, tramps, hobos and runaways. Most of them are not par-ticularly ready nor are they seeking a portrait photo-graph. Luvelli captures candid moments and honest profiles in such a way that the result is both illuminating and beautiful. Perhaps not beautiful in the typical use of the that word, but beautiful in both composition and the way he captures a moment of gritty reality. Indeed, charming, mid-size Midwestern college towns are not always what they seem to be on their surface.

I invite you to come see Luvelli’s unique talent for yourself. The exhibit will run through August 21. The 18” x 24” hand-processed, gelatin-silver prints are framed and available for sale.

Artists Reception—Friday evening, July 8, 6pm—8pm. Luvelli will speak and take questions at 6:45pm. Complimentary beer, wine, appetizers. Free and open to the public.

Montminy Opens ‘Unseen Columbia’ The art of Street Photographer Jon Luvelli By Chris Campbell

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Volunteer Committees – Part One By Charles Hargrove Our volunteer committees are a major part of the “backbone” of our organization. Executive Director Campbell has a few words in another article about mem-bers needed for the Village at Boone Junction Commit-tee. To begin a series about our committees and the peo-ple who serve on them, here is what is included in our bylaws. More about these and our Ad Hoc committees in future issues. From our bylaws: “The chairpersons of Standing Committees are appoint-ed by the President with the advice and consent of the Board of Directors. Committee chairs report to the President and Executive Director. All Standing Commit-tees must operate within established policies and budg-etary guidelines and are subject to oversight by the Ex-ecutive Committee and Executive Director. Additional committees may be appointed by the Society president. Duties of Standing Committees are as follows: Development Committee: Recruitment of Society members, fund raising strategies and policies, public relations strategies and policies and long term financial planning. Collections (Acquisitions) Committee: Accessions, cat-alogs, stores and preserves Museum artifacts. Maplewood Committee: Responsible for planning events, organizing fundraising, restoration and mainte-nance of the interior of the house and property. Historic Sites Committee: Selects , researches and rec-ommends the recognition of historic sites in Boone County and places a plaque at the site. Boone (Village) Junction Committee: Responsible for planning events, organizing fundraising, building resto-ration and maintenance of the buildings... Education Committee: Gathers and creates material regarding the Society’s collections and venues for Soci-ety and outreach programs. Building and Grounds Committee: Concerns itself with the condition of the physical assets of the Society, reviewing and developing a planned maintenance pro-gram and making repairs as needed.”

From the Executive Director’s Desk… On behalf of the entire Board of Directors and staff I extend our most sincere and grateful thanks to the 65 friends of BCHS who have already made a Summer Give fundraising campaign donation. In two weeks time, the campaign has done extremely well and we are on our way to reaching our $10,000 goal. If you have not yet made time to pull the stamped, return envelope out of that bright yellow envelope sent 3 weeks back, then please do. We need your support. We exist and operate largely through your contributions. In next month’s issue, we will recognize every Summer Give donor. Thank you! - Chris