Fox Lake/Grant Township Historical Society Meeting Nov. 16, 2019: The "Haunted?" Puppets

We elected four people to the Board of Directors.  Treasury reports receiving $120 from the sale of three Grant Township High School yearbooks.  We sell year extras for $40 apiece.  Buy a part of your history.

Local Stanton School will be bringing fifth graders over this upcoming week to tour the museum and will work in five-person groups at the end of the tour to answer questions.  Winning group gets ice cream.

There will also be a presentation at Leisure Village this week.

The Shadow Hunters who are a group of ghost hunters from Lake Villa, Illinois, will be coming to take a "look" around the museum.  They have previously been here twice.  They were especially interested in taking another go at the "puppets."  Those puppets are three that used to be at the popular Fox Lake tavern called Eagle Point Park, but more commonly known as the Puppet Bar.

I used to deejay there a lot during the 1980s and knew those puppets well.

Sadly, those puppets are no longer in the museum. They were loaned by the owners and now in California.

The Fox Lake mayor was there and said the historical association was getting a plaque for the great work we're doing pushing the history and heritage of Fox Lake.

Too Bad.  --Cooter