By Dustin J. Mack Chief Curator, History Museum at the Castle The History Museum at the Castle has designed a three-month exhibit to explore growing divisions in our society and we’ve called it, Bridging the GAP Years, 1969-2019. Over the past 50 years, political polarization, wealth inequality and feelings of social isolation have increased while […]
An exhibit presented by the History Museum at the Castle in downtown Appleton that received support from the Community Foundation has been selected for two substantial awards. “Asylum: Out of the Shadows” received the Wisconsin Historical Society’s 2017 Exhibit Award, as well as the 2017 Award of Merit from the Leadership in History Awards Committee […]
Winston Churchill was not shy about taking on an engagement, in a military sense. His parents were quicker with an engagement of another kind. Sir Randolph Churchill and Jennie Jerome had known each other for two days, and were together for only the third time when Randolph, 24, proposed to Jennie, 19. They kept their […]
The Community Foundation staff and some of its donors had the opportunity to tour what went on at the Asylum, out of the public view. The History Museum at the Castle invited us to tour the exhibit “Asylum: Out of the Shadows” on Monday, a day when the museum is closed to the public. The exhibit […]
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