Gateway History Conference: April 29, 2017 at Eagle Point Lodge. The event is free and open to the public.

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Program Schedule
9:00-9:30 - Coffee and Donuts
 9:30-9:45 - Welcome GHC 2017 Introductions  | 
Matt Parbs, Clinton Sawmill Museum & Brad Wiles, Quad Cities Area History Network, Inc.

9:45-10:45 - Keynote Address Resurrecting William H. Williams, An Unabashedly Awful Man | 
Dr. Jeff Forret, Professor and Graduate Director of History, Lamar University

10:50-12:00 - Morning Panel
Clinton Lumberkings by the Numbers, 1956-2004 |  Erik Oas, Director of Broadcasting and Media Relations, Clinton Lumberkings
Abolitionists and Freethinkers with the Underground Railroad in Clinton County, Iowa  |  Dave Holmgren, Independent Historian
The Murder of William Martin, 1832  | Russ Fry, Independent Historian and Documentarian

12:00-1:15 - Lunch Speakers
How the Honey Bee Shaped Iowa’s History  |  Carly Vannoy, 2017 Iowa Honey Queen
Little Known Facts About Felix “King of the Clowns” Adler (1895-1960)  | Sarah Lind, Executive Director, Felix Adler Children’s Discovery Center

1:20-2:30 - Afternoon Panel
Bad Things Happen Here: Murder and Suicide in Scott and Clinton Counties  | John Brassard Jr., History Columnist, DeWitt Observer
The League of Humanity and Opposition to War in Davenport during the Summer of 1917 |  Bill Douglas, Independent Historian
Uncovering a Davenport Nazi: The John Robert Bishop Papers |  Samantha Crisp, Special Collections Librarian, Augustana College Atticus Garrison, Senior Student, Augustana College

3:00-4:30 - Film Screening Sons of Jacob Synagogue  |  Francesca Soans and Robert Neymeyer, Directors