The Kirkwood Historical Society invites you to a FREE benefit concert to raise donations for our “Porch Project”. Stop by Mudd’s Grove to listen to the vocal jazz octet, Java Jived who will perform a cappella arrangements of jazz and pop classics. Known for their fine blend and intonation, this high-energy ensemble performs polished stylistic renditions of challenging repertoire by…
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Free Benefit Concert at Mudd’s Grove
Going to the GREENTREE FESTIVAL?
Plan to stop by the Kirkwood Historical Society booth, located just outside the Folk Life area! (Its a new spot for us.) Learn about our upcoming events and the Porch Project. Want to meet KHS supporters like you? VOLUNTEER for an hour or two at our booth, promoting all the good things happening this year in our ongoing celebration of…
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Docent Profile – Clayton Caringer
Meet Clayton Caringer, a 2021 graduate of Kirkwood High School and the youngest Docent at Mudd’s Grove. We recently sat down with Clayton in the Hearth Room at Mudd’s Grove to talk about his passion for Kirkwood and its history. The first thing Clayton Caringer wants you to know about Mudd’s Grove and the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Kirkwood Historical Society is that neither are governed…
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Mudd’s Grove Porch Project – Go Fund Me Page
Click here to go to our Go Fund Me page. Can you imagine Mudd’s Grove without that wraparound porch? Neither can we. The porch needs support. The porch needs your support. Now that COVID guidelines are loosening, we are preparing the porch to be the literal entrance to the house and the figurative entrance for our return to weddings, showers,…
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Visiting Mudd’s Grove During Covid-19
Friends Speaker Series: Notorious Missouri: 200 Years of Historic Crimes
Monday, October 4, 2021 6-7 PM via Zoom details below. Jim and Vicki Erwin, co-authors of “Notorious Missouri: 200 Years of Historic Crimes,” cover crimes committed across our state as well as others that hit close to home for local residents. Those include the murder that inspired the song “Frankie and Johnnie,” duals on “Bloody Island” and the Bobby Greenlease abduction and murder. Their…
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Best in the West!
Check out this cover page article in the “Kirkwood-Webster Times” (with wink and nod to our friends at the Webster-Kirkwood Times). If you are a member you saw this article in the “Red Book” officially known as the Quarterly Review which we have been publishing since 1962!!! Still tells a great story. https://www.timesnewspapers.com/…/article_10c6c434-16ef…
August Speaker Series – Extraordinary Black Missourians
Dr. John A. Wright is our August 2nd presenter for our Speakers Series on Zoom at 6:00pm. Dr. Wright has written more than a half dozen books about African-American history in Missouri and in particularly the St. Louis region. His August topic will be “Extraordinary Black Missourians.” He published a 2013 book by the same title. Here are three links about…
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