1923 – 2023
As we enter our second century, we are planning a community-wide celebration in collaboration with other organizations throughout the community under the umbrella: A Century of Women’s Leadership. The women who founded the Antiquarian Society were also responsible for the institution of the Kellogg Library, now the Brown County Library, the establishment of the Neville Public Museum, the Green Bay Garden Club, the Shakespeare Club, and the Green Bay Art Colony. When they saw our community artifacts being sold to outside buyers, they established the Green Bay and De Pere Antiquarian Society.
In this retrospective year, we examine this collaborative leadership style, an emerging trend in leadership initiatives today. We will post associated websites in the spirit of collaboration. For more information, use the contact form on this site.
Great News!
Neville Public Museum Dinner Series:The Bingo Queens of Oneida
Thursday, September 22, 2022By Mike HoeftDinner at 5:00 – Presentation at 6:00Before Indian casinos sprouted up around the country, a few enterprising tribes got their start in gambling by opening bingo parlors. A group of women on the Oneida Indian Reservation just outside Green Bay, Wisconsin, introduced bingo in 1976 simply to pay a few bills. Bingo not only paid the light bill at the struggling civic center but was soon financing vital health and housing services for tribal elderly and poor. $27.50 for each Neville Public Museum member | $32.50 for each Non-member Reservations required: Contact Kathy at 920-448-7847 |
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Weidner Philharmon!cWomen’s WorkSeptember 247:30 Concert, Panel at 6:30This special program is composed entirely by women with inpiration stemming from our own backyard to the farthest reaches of the globe. It is a surprising, eclectic and fun concert featuring a world premiere, a familiar piece with deep Wisconsin roots, a composition inspired by a faraway Indonesian volcano, and a finale that is scored for full orchestra and audience members who are not passive listeners but are part of the score as active participants. A reimagining of what a night at the symphony can be! Compositions by:Clarice Assads: É Gol Stacy Garrop: Krakatoa Jennifer Higdon: Light (Commissioned by the Green Bay Symphony Guild Composers Club) Michelle McQuade Dewhirst: Out of Darkness: This Conducted byMichael Alexander Robert Nordling Featured Soloist: Michael Hall |
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UW-Green Bay’s Institute for Women’s Leadership and the Weidner invite you to:
A concert and special panel discussion featuring three female composers. Did you know that only 5% of orchestral programs feature compositions by women? Hear from these artists about how they find their footing and place in their field and if such under-representation impacts the way they work.
Use the code IWL for $30 tickets to an exclusive reception at 6:00 p.m. followed by an inspiring conversation with tremendous artists at 6:30 p.m. and an eclectic concert at 7:30 p.m.
A Conversation with MaudMonday, Oct. 17Presented by the AAUW GREEN BAY AREA (WI) BRANCHPortrayed by Sara Ramaker and interviewed by Dotty Juengst
Hear about Maud McCreery, a Green Bay Suffragist who worked to pass the vote for women, first in Wisconsin and then in the US from New York to California. During 1911-12, Maud was deeply involved in Wisconsin’s women’s suffrage referendum campaign. This state referendum gave male voters the opportunity to give Wisconsin women the vote, but they did not. Thus, began the more than seven-year intensive effort by Maud, campaigning to ratify the 19th Amendment. In June, 1919, Wisconsin became the first state to ratify the 19th Amendment. When Tennessee, the 39th state, ratified it in August 1920, the 19th Amendment became the law in the U.S. Maud then used her speaking and organizing skills to work for peace and promoting better working conditions for women. Her moto was “Organize, Agitate, and Educate”
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Village Grille
This is a free event. Reservations are required: [email protected].
Neville Public Museum Dinner Series:Letters from ClaraThursday, October 20, 2022By Janet NewmanDinner at 5:00 – Presentation at 6:00Learn about the inspiring Clara Pagel through a collection of letters uncovered detailing her adventures around the world in 1936. $27.50 for each Neville Public Museum member | $32.50 for each Non-member Reservations required: Contact Kathy at 920-448-7847 |
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Page Turners is presented by UntitledTown,a program of the Friends ofthe Brown County library Book Discussion GroupAll the Frequent Troubles of Our DaysBy Rebecca DonnerWednesday, November 16, 2022
A new book tells the story of a Wisconsin woman who fought the rise of Adolf Hitler as part of the German resistance. The book follows Mildred Harnack from her early life in Milwaukee to her cdecision to move to Berlin with her German-born husband in 1929 where she studied literature. The two became part of a secret network that tried to stop the notzis’ rise to power. They were imprisoned and executed in 1943. Passed down through generations, their great-great-grandniece, Rebecca Donner always knew it was a story she would write.
Free and Open to the public.Brown County Library, 515 Pine St., Green Bay |
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Neville Public MuseumGenerations Gallery Art Rotation:Howard Pyle andand American IllustrationJanuary 2023 – December 2023The Neville Public Museum currently houses and cares for a collection of 22 |
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Neville Public Museum Dinner Series:The Abiding Influence of an Art Teacher and an Aesthete:A Celebration of the Life, Lore,and Sartorial Splendor of Howard Pyle
Thursday, February 9, 2023By Father James Neilson, O’PraemDinner at 5:00 – Presentation at 6:00From Vincent van Gogh to Captain jack Sparrow, Howard Pyle has excited the curiosity of generations of artists and dreamers. Howard Pyle is considered the father of American illustrators and founder of th Brandywine School of Art. N. C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, and Norman Rockwell all credit Pyle’s inspiration for their work. In fact, one of N. C. Wyeth’s sons was named Howard Pyle Wyeth.
The collections of Pyle paintings were acquired as part of the Heritage Collection. Originally part of the Brown County Library holdings and slated for public auction, the Antiquarians raised $1.3M to keep the collection in Brown County. The collection, which the Antiquarians had restored and reframed, is available to travel to other museums.
Registration is required. $27.50 for each Neville Public Museum member | $32.50 for each Non-member
Reservations required: Contact Kathy at 920-448-7847 |
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Happy Birthday, Service League!90th Birthday GalaMarch 4, 2023Watch for Details!Service League is celebrating 90 years in 2023. A Gala event is planned at the Historic Hotel Northland. We will be highlighting the contributions of the women in our community throughout Service League’s 90 years.
Service League of Green Bay is a charitable organization whose purpose is to meet the physical, educational, and emotional needs of the children of Brown County by providing volunteer hours and financial support. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit charitable organization, Service League of Green Bay fully funds all of its own projects and donates every dollar raised by our members. Founded in 1933, Service League is a longstanding women’s organization whose members are passionate about positively impacting the lives of children in need. Our members donate countless hours volunteering for Service League projects and in our community. All proceeds raised from fundraising allow the Service League of Green Bay to continue to support and grow our Back to School Store that benefits so many children in our community. The women of Service League are very dedicated to helping others and making an impact on the lives of the children we serve, but we could not do it without the help of those around us! |
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Neville Public Museum Dinner Series:Katharine Wright: Those Flyboys from DaytonThursday, April 20, 2023By Jessica MichnaDinner at 5:00 – Presentation at 6:00Behind the genius of the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, was their beloved and devoted sister, Katharine. She may be often overlooked by history, but
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$27.50 for each Neville Public Museum member |
$32.50 for each Non-member
Reservations required:Contact Kathy at 920-448-7847 |
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