Campus Martius: The Museum of the Northwest Territory

2008 Calendar of Events 
 Campus Martius: the Museum of the Northwest Territory
The Ohio River Museum 

As of January 7, 2008.  Subject to change

 

March 1  
Campus Martius Museum OPENS for the 2008 season 
Hours:  March 1 – October 31, 2008.  Wednesday – Saturday, 9:30 AM – 5 PM; Sundays and holidays, 12 – 5 PM.  Open these holidays = Memorial Day (May 26), Independence Day (July 4), Labor Day (September 1), Columbus Day (October 13)

March 1  

Living History Event -- “Meet Mr. & Mrs. Putnam”
Campus Martius Museum 

1:00 - 4:00 PM
Event included with museum admission
Celebrate the opening day of the Campus Martius Museum in 2007 by meeting Mr. & Mrs. Rufus Putnam, whose house--on its original location since 1788--is inside the museum.  Site staff Bill Reynolds and Sherry Potochnik will portray the Putnams, who will share aspects of their everyday lives in Marietta 200 years ago.  The portrayal will take place at the Putnam House.  Step into the home and lives of our ancestors.  Hear the stories of life in the new settlement from both Mr. and Mrs. Putnam.

March 16   
Lecture -- “Gardens of Blennerhassett Island ”
Campus Martius Museum
3:00 - 4:30 PM 
$8 / Adults    $3 / Students     Includes museum admission
Free / Members of Ohio Historical Society or Friends of the Museum
Looking for ideas for your garden?  Take a cue from the history.  Gardening was a source of food and beauty for the Mid-Ohio Valley’s settlers and what the area’s early residents cultivated tells us much about their times.  Using the gardens at the re-created Blennerhassett Mansion as a guide, Linda Watkins, the site’s Director of Historic Plantings, will take us on a slide-illustrated trip through ornamental gardens of the early Mid-Ohio Valley .  She will discuss available plant material at that time and reveal what has been discovered about the original gardens of the Blennerhassett Mansion .  Sponsored by the Friends of the Museum. 

April 13 
Lecture -- “Oh Dams! The Story of the Muskingum River Locks and Dams”  
Ohio River Museum
3:00 - 4:30 PM
$8 / adults         $3 / children      Includes museum admission
Free / Members of Ohio Historical Society or Friends of the Museum
The Muskingum River lock and dam system is the nation’s only surviving complete system of locks and dams.  And it’s right in Southeast Ohio ’s backyard!  Boaters today go through locks that are more than 160 years old.  In celebration of the locks and dams listing on the National Register of Historic Places, join nomination’s author and architectural historian, Nancy Hoy, on an “armchair” tour of the system.  Discover how it was built, who used it and for what, and how it survived.  Sponsored by Friends of the Museum, which will conduct is annual meeting immediately before the talk. 

A note about Carp Watch... Please note that Carp Watch at the W.P. Snyder Jr. will not be held in 2008.  As of this writing (January 7, 2008), it is expected that the Snyder will be gone from Ohio River Museum and  undergoing replacement of her hull.  For more information about the project, contact the Ohio River Museum .  The carp will have to fend for themselves this year.    

May 18 
Musical performance / lecture “ Ohio ’s History in Song”
Campus Martius Museum
3:00 - 4:30 PM  
$8 / adults         $3 / children      Includes museum admission
Free / Members of Ohio Historical Society or Friends of the Museum
Ohio ’s history is richly documented in song.  Native American chants, songs of the Underground Railroad and Civil War, and tunes carried here by immigrants from Appalachia and around the world help to tell the Buckeye State ’s story.  Folklorist and musician Hank Arbaugh returns to Marietta to present and perform songs from the state’s rich musical tradition, accompanying himself on guitar, mountain dulcimer, and other instruments.  His talk is made possible with a grant from the Ohio Humanities Council’s Speakers Bureau and is sponsored by the Friends of the Museum. 

May 3 
Workshop -- “Make a Grandparents Memories Album”
Campus Martius Museum
1:00 - 4:00 PM
$25 / Family (includes one adult, one child, one scrapbook)
$20 / OHS or Friends of the Museum Member Family (ditto)
$7 / Additional non-member adult w/ family     
$3 / Additional non-member child w/ family
Free / Additional member adult or child
$5 / Additional scrapbook
Team up with mom or dad--or both!--this summer to preserve your family’s history.  Participants in this family-friendly workshop will create their own hand-made, archive-quality, mini-album filled with questions for grandma or grandpa or other family elders plus spaces for family photographs and stories.  The workshop is intended for kids entering grades 4 - 6 and their parents.  The fee admits one adult, one child, and pays the cost of creating one scrapbook.  Additional parents, siblings welcome at reduced fee.  Additional scrapbooks can be made at a reduced fee.  All materials and tools needed to make scrapbooks will be provided.  Space is limited.  Pre-register by calling 740-373-3750.

May 24 
Ohio River Museum OPENS for the 2008 season 
Hours:  Memorial Day weekend – October 26, 2008.  Saturday, 9:30 AM – 5 PM; Sunday and holidays, 12 – 5 PM.  Open these holidays = Memorial Day (May 26), Independence Day (July 4), Labor Day (September 1), Columbus Day (October 13)

June 16 - 20 
Kid’s Activity -- Campus Martius Museum
Summer Camp 2008 
Campus Martius Museum
9:30 AM to 12:30 PM
$65.00 per week / Students 
$52.00 per week / Member students of Ohio Historical Society or Friends of the Museum
Campus Martius’ summer camp is filled with activities related to the area’s pioneers and their children.  Intended for kids in grades 3^rd - 5^th, participants will make a 19^th century toy, preserve food by drying fruit, make a braided rag potholder, and create tasty herb snacks from the museum’s garden. A local historian will share stories from early Marietta and guides campers on a poetry writing adventure.  Prepare for a memorable experience when Rufus Putnam visits Campus Martius, too.   Space is limited.  Pre-register by calling 740-373-3750.   

July 16, 17
Daycare activity -- “Hooray for Daycare Days”
Ohio River Museum
10 AM - 2 PM
$6 / Daycare child / day
$3 / Daycare supervising adult / day
A special program intended specifically for local daycares, children make stops at a number of stations around the grounds of the Ohio River Museum and participate in fun activities.  Stations include “American Indians,” “Military Defense,” “Junior Naturalist,” “Coal on the W.P. Snyder Jr. and Chocolate Chip Cookie Mining,” “Pioneer Toys,” and tours of the Ohio River Museum.  Tours of the towboat W.P. Snyder Jr. will also be included, if the boat is in Marietta .  This program is available exclusively to local daycare providers.  Tell yours about “Hooray for Daycare Days.”  Call 740-373-3750 for more information or e-mail spotochnik@ohiohistory.org.

August 4 - 7 
Kids’ Activity -- Ohio River Museum Summer Camp 2008  
Ohio River Museum
August 4, 5, 6:  9:30 AM - 2:30 PM;       August 7: 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
$85.00 / Students
$68.00 / Member students of Ohio Historical Society or Friends of the Museum
Campers will discover and examine plants and animals found along rivers and up in the woods, too.  Wetlands and b ears are just some of the things that will be explored--all on the grounds of the Ohio River Museum .  Camp concludes with a trip down the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers on the on the Valley Gem Sternwheeler.  Camp is suited for participants third through fifth grade.  Space is limited.  Pre-registration is required by calling 740-373-3750.

October 12 
Lecture -- “Pioneer Pleasures and Pastimes” 
Campus Martius Museum
$8 / Adults        $3 / Students     Includes museum admission
Free / Members of Ohio Historical Society or Friends of the Museum
From 200 years hence, it’s easy to forget that the area’s early settlers were flesh and blood people.  They had virtues and vices and celebrated holidays (sometimes a little too much).  Drawing from firsthand accounts, Dr. Ray Swick, the historian of the Blennerhassett Island State Historical Park in Parkersburg, WV, explores how the area’s settlers celebrated holidays and highlights the role that spirituous liquor played in those celebrations and in the everyday lives of settlers.   In Dr. Swick’s entertaining account, you’ll discover that holidays—and the place of alcohol in them—was not the same as it is today.  Sponsored by the Friends of the Museum.   

Admission: Except where noted, admission to these programs is included in the regular admission price to the museums:  $7.00 / adults, $3.00 / students, $6.00 / senior citizens.  Free for members of the Ohio Historical Society, Friends of the Museum members, and children 5 and under.

Campus Martius Museum
601 Second Street (corner of Second and Washington Streets) 
Marietta , OH 45750
Phone:  (740) 373-3750  / toll-free 800-860-0145
e-mail: cmmoriv@ohiohistory.org
Web:  www.ohiohistory.org/places/ campus  

Ohio River Museum
601 Front Street (next to the VALLEY GEM Sternwheeler)