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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Trailside Museum: The Legend of Virginia Moe

Trailside Museum: The Legend of Virginia Moe

Morocco, Jane
Harvey, Paul, Jr.

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralGeneral PhotographyRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $31.99

ISBN10: 1531670741
ISBN13: 9781531670740
Publisher: Arcadia Lib Ed
Published: Mar 9 2015
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
On October 8, 1930, Charles Cap Sauers, general superintendent of the Cook County Forest Preserve District, wrote a letter to Alfred M. Bailey, president of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, about an idea he had. He proposed developing several nature study museums with the support of Bailey and the Academy of Sciences. Bailey eagerly wrote to Sauers that he had the Academy's full cooperation. By 1932, the Trailside Museum of Natural History was opened in River Forest, Illinois, the first of its kind in the Midwest. Several curators would come and go, but one in particular, Virginia Moe, dedicated more than 50 years of her life to the museum, animals, and people of Cook County. This is truly her story.

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