This Sunday, September 9th, tour the site where Joseph Glidden invented and first manufactured the most widely used type of barbed wire, “The Winner” in 1874. View demonstrations of the blacksmith craft in the Phineas Vaughan Blacksmith Shop. Both the 1861 home and brick barn are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Kishwaukee Valley Barbershop Chorus will return to entertain at the Glidden Homestead & Historical Center also on Sunday for a 2 p.m. performance.
The Chorus includes 15 members, who range in age from teens-70. The group holds about 10 performances a year, usually at nursing homes and retirement centers, and performs at various events like the Glidden Homestead’s throughout the year. Director of the chorus is John Hansen, who has been a member since 1966. The local group is part of the Society of the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America Inc., which has about 30,000 members throughout the world. The society arranges music for its member organization. The concerts are supported with a grant from the Mary A. Stevens Concert & Lecture Fund.
Admission: adults $4; children under 14, free. The Homestead, located at 921 W. Lincoln Hwy., in DeKalb, is open from noon-4 p.m. More info at www.gliddenhomestead.org.
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