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The American Heritage Museum will be open all next week (2/16-2/22) for February school break. Great place to bring the whole family!
With Valentines Day this weekend, we're asking our friends, "What do you love most at the American Heritage Museum?" - whether it's a certain event, artifact, or favorite volunteer... let us know in the comments!
American Heritage Museum President Rob Collings will introduce Ashlen Hyatt Nunnery today as she talks about her father who was a Hanoi Hilton POW during the Vietnam War. Presentation starts at 2pm. No reservations needed.
Don't miss - this Friday at the AHM, 2:00pm to 3:30pm, special Speaker Series presentation by Ashlen Hyatt Nunnery. 'Mud Pies and War Planes' is a powerful and intimate memoir with raw honesty and deep emotion that captures what it means to grow up in the shadow of war, and the quiet ways it reshapes everyone it touches. Ashlen is the daughter of Capt. Leo G. Hyatt, who became a Vietnam POW at the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison. She will have her father's uniform and artifacts on display that will be put into AHM's Hanoi Hilton exhibit.
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Speaker Series – V-Mail In WWII
December 7, 2024 @ 1:00 pm, ending 2:30 pm
Free with standard museum admission
The attack on Pearl Harbor, Sunday, December 7th, 1941, plunged the United States into a world-wide war that stretched across the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, North Africa, India, China, Australia, and islands across the vast Pacific Ocean. Ultimately, some 16 million men and women joined the armed services over the course of the 42 months of the conflict. Among the most important means of keeping up morale of all service personnel was, in these pre-Internet days, sending and, most importantly, receiving letters and packages from home. However, transporting tons of mail by ship – the primary means of overseas transport then – could take weeks and, sometimes, months to reach destinations. However, one means had been devised, based on something the British had come up with months before Pearl Harbor, that a joint effort by the Department of War (Army/Army Air Forces), Navy Department (Navy/Marines/Coast Guard), and the Post Office Department began planning for in the months before Pearl Harbor … V-Mail.
Photographer-filmmaker-historian David Watts, Jr. will tell the story of V-Mail from the earliest photographic experiments that made it possible, to how it worked, and the great efforts applied, by the government and businesses, to getting people to use it.
As part of the presentation, the exhibition of World War II writing materials, put together by Richard Binder and David Watts, Jr. will be on display in the museum for the afternoon.
No reservations needed to attend.
