The Sunset Hills Historical Society (SHHS) meeting on Monday evening, May 21, 2018, will be a program that will feature the archaeology of the Sappington/Sunset Hills area. Anthropologist Rachel Murphy Azzara has a degree in anthropology from Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville, and has worked in the field for the Illinois Department of Transportation. She…
Sappington House Craft Fair 2018 April 28-29, 2018, 9:00-3:00 List of vendors and services Creative Vendors: 1 Leaf Recreations 2 LH Enterprises & AOSM Creations 3 Hamlin Mosaics 4 Happy Fun Books 5 Caricatures to Go 6 Schaefer Ceramics 7 Papillon Perennials 8 Cathy’s Creative Glassworks 9 Cats in the Attic 10 Window to my World 11…
Students: application for the dig is still open Students interested in applying should contact SCHS President, Stephen Hanpeter at 314-918-1617, or schs.webmanager@gmail.com, or Sappington House Resident Manager Sally Cakouros at 314-822-8171. Make inquiries and apply by Tuesday, May 8. The student experience The high school student archaeological dig at Sappington House is an experience of…
Veterans honored with luminaries at 2017 Honor Glow at Sappington House. The Honor Glow is a family Christmas event and patriotic ceremony to honor veterans. It also is a fundraiser for USACares, a non-profit that helps veteran and their families in crisis. William Lowry – US Army Reserves Randall Ottinger…
International Archaeology Day at Sappington House Saturday, October 21, 10 am – 2 pm Free! Schedule of attractions On the grounds, 11:15 – 12 noon, Lindbergh middle school Fiddlers in colonial costume In the library 10:30 am, Perry Whitaker, Mississippi River Paddler, tells his experiences of finding Native-American artifacts as he canoes the waterways 12:00…
Yesterday ~ an Elegant Frontier Home The story begins with John Sappington who served in the American Revolutionary War as General George Washington’s bodyguard at Valley Forge in 1778. While on furlough in Maryland, he married Jemima Fowler soon moving to what is now West Virginia. Later in Kentucky, Daniel Boone encouraged John to go…
Smithsonian Museum Day Live! September 23, 2017, Saturday 10 am-2 pm. Go to Smithsonian magazine website for free tickets to visit Sappington House. Day Trip to One-Room School Houses September 29, 2017, Friday Bus transportation and lunch. 9 am to 4:30 pm International Archaeology Day October 21, 2017, Saturday 10 am-2 pm. See artifacts…
Country Craft Festival. At Historic Sappington House Park. Thomas Sappington House park is an escape from urban concrete to a refreshing green retreat. Sappington House, located at 1015 S. Sappington Road 63126, is sponsoring an outdoor Summertime Country Craft Festival including talented vendors as well as folkways artisans on Saturday and Sunday, July 22, and…
ICE CREAM SOCIAL and OUTDOOR CONCERT by Gateway City Big Band http://www.gatewaycitybigband.com/ What a way to spend a summer evening! At Sappington House, in the park. Romance the summer. Dappled shade. Cool, sweet grass. Ronnie’s Rocky Mountain ice cream on your chin. Cash bar. Cool sounds of the Gateway City Big Band, a 17-piece band…
Getting ready for the 2017 dig at Sappington House See a sampling of the artifacts found in 2016, hear the presentation on the dig done last year. Find out what may be coming up this year in the June dig. Sauturday, April 8 at 2:00 pm at the Oak Bend Branch library in the auditorium.…
December 4, 2016 Sunday 5:00 – 8:00 pm at Sappington House What is Give and Glow, Nite of Lites? See 620 Combat Support Battalion, Crestwood fire truck, bonfires and Santa Claus. Enjoy caroling, cookies and hot cocoa. Walk along Grant’s Trail from Big Bend to Watson lit with luminaries supporting our military through the efforts…
November 20, Sunday at 2:00 pm Reports on the archaeological dig at Sappington House by the students; their experiences and their findings. At long last, the student diggers speak. They reveal all; findings, experiences, insights, and research too. Muffled since the June dig at Sappington house, the student diggers finally come forward in a tell-all moment.…
Sappington House “Crestwood’s Front Porch” Upcoming December, 2016 Event Calendar December 4, 2016 Sunday 5-8 pm 4th Annual Nite of Lights – Give and Glow See 620 Combat Support Battalion, Crestwood fire truck, bonfires and Santa Claus; Enjoy caroling, cookies and hot cocoa; Walk along Grant’s Trail from Big Bend to Watson lit with luminaries…
