Speaker's Series Program About the Telephone In Gasconade County

Set for March 1 at Swiss

 The Society's first Speaker's Series program of 2020 will be about the telephone, and the presenter will be Glenn Miller, a loyal volunteer at the Museum who recently came on the GCHS board.
 Miller's topic, "The Telephone in Gasconade County from the Beginning Until the Dial System," will be presented on Sunday, March 1, at 2 p.m. at the Swiss Envangelical Reformed Church, on Highway 19 in Swiss. Admission is $10. Students and children are admitted free. The Speaker's Series programs are open to the public, so invite your friends and neighbors to attend.
 Miller has been researching his topic about the telephone in Gasconade County for nearly two years, so it promises to be a most interesting program that will cover decades of old phone systems from the time of Alexander Graham Bell’s invention to more recent decades. Bell's invention changed the world.
 Telephone systems have come a long way, as most of us with cell phones can attest, and who can remember grandma calling someone with a "long and a short" ring?
 Mark your calendars for the second Speaker's Series program of the year, which will be held on Sunday, May 3, at 2 p.m. at a location yet to be determined. Vincent Klott, Gasconade County Surveyor, will present a program on surveying in the county.
 Klott, who commenced on a surveying career in 1971, started doing surveying work in the early 1980s for the late Elmer Birk, who was the long-time surveyor in Gasconade County.