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Local History Program Coordinator at the Pekin Public Library. I oversee the library’s local history room collection, write a weekly local history column/weblog for the library, and present local history programs at the library and in the community.
Here’s a chance to read again one of our old Local History...
Jared L. Olar
May 21, 2016
Reading through the microfilms of the Pekin Daily Times on file in...
Jared L. Olar
May 13, 2016
This week we again examine some items that recently were donated to...
Jared L. Olar
May 6, 2016
Two weeks ago, we explored a remarkable aspect of the natural history...
Jared L. Olar
April 29, 2016
A few weeks ago, a Pekin Public Library patron asked two “pointed”...
Jared L. Olar
April 22, 2016
In this column we explore topics related to the history of Pekin...
Jared L. Olar
April 15, 2016
Question: What do Pekin’s pioneer historian William H. Bates, the Hanging Judge...
Jared L. Olar
April 8, 2016
Although it has been 13 years since CILCO – the Peoria-based Central...
Jared L. Olar
April 1, 2016
This week we’ll revisit a subject that we first covered a little...
Jared L. Olar
March 26, 2016
In Mackinaw Township Cemetery is a gravestone marked with the Christian cross,...
Jared L. Olar
March 18, 2016
Attention all local history or library history buffs: Currently on display in...
Jared L. Olar
March 15, 2016
Note: Archivists and historians in Missouri recently contacted the Pekin Public Library...
Jared L. Olar
March 12, 2016
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