Quantia "Key" Fletcher, who joined Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in 2008, has been named as museum director as an expansive Smithsonian exhibit gets installed across two floors of the museum.
By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net
The Examiner
The National Archives and Records Administration, which oversees the U.S. presidential libraries, has started to allow some of those sites to reopen on a limited basis, including the Dwight Eisenhower Library and Museum in Abilene, Kansas.
The Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence. closed since the end of July 2019 for a massive, $30 million renovation project, has not yet received that go-ahead.
As workers continue to put the finishing touches on new exhibits, Kurt Graham, the library’s executive director, says it probably will be “still a couple weeks” before the National Archives gives a thumbs up.
By Bill Knight
Now showing at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield is “The State of Sound: A World of Music from Illinois.” Described as an “immersive and interactive exhibit,” it continues through January, exhibiting decades of the state’s popular music through displays of instruments, props and costumes from the likes of Earth, Wind & Fire, Benny Goodman, John Prine and scores of others.
Its text was written by music journalist and author Dave Hoekstra, an ex-Chicago Sun-Times writer, and since I’ve known Hoekstra for years, I’m sure his work will be comprehensive. But it’s a challenge.