Fairbury Echoes Museum has a new exhibit called Clubs and Organizations which will be on display through March.
Some of the clubs and organizations were just local and others were national like the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, and Odd Fellows. For the Masons, there is a uniform and also a collection of items from the honor of Fairburian W.B. Decker becoming the world’s oldest Mason.
Fairbury has always been the home to many civic minded and social citizens and their participation in their clubs and organizations proves that. Some of the interesting items on display are the original framed charter for the Lioness Club, a Girl Scout uniform with the badges sewn onto the sleeve, and a dress worn to Women’s Christian Temperance meetings.
The museum also has numerous record books recording the minutes of many of the groups like the Shakespeare Club, the Robert Browning Club, Silver League, Fairbury Junior Woman’s Club, Belle Prairie Home Extension, Avoca Betterment Club, the Phi Chi Psi, Alpha Bridge Club, the Hospital Auxiliary, Cheerful Givers, Home Domestic Science Club, Country Domestic Science Club, International Relations Study Group, and the Philomethian Club. If you have an interest in any of these, now is the time to come take a look before they are placed back in storage at the close of the exhibit. Feel free to grab a book and have a seat in the reading and reference room to review it.
Fairbury Echoes Museum operates a local history museum at 126 W Locust Street in downtown Fairbury. It is open on Thursdays and Fridays from 1:00 to 4:00 and on Saturdays from 9:00 to 11:00. In January and February, the museum is only open on Saturdays. There is no admission charge and group visits can also be arranged by calling the museum at (815) 692-2191.
