Learn how to use your smartphone to take artistic, well-crafted photographs. Professional photographer Dianne Baasch will teach about photography basics and how to capture images from an artistic point of view. Explore dramatic lighting and good composition […]
Throughout history, walls have played a significant role in shaping our world. From the battlements surrounding ancient cities to the bright lines dividing nations, these structures have been a constant presence in our lives. However, […]
Huebinger arrived as a German immigrant to Davenport in 1880 to work as a surveyor and cartographer for the Army Corps of Engineers in Rock Island. He published his first local atlas of Scott County […]
Celebrate Spring and join for the annual Eiermarkt Spring Craft Fair. Browse a variety of crafts and homemade goods from our local vendors and artisans. Featured crafts will be pysanky eggs, homemade breads and candies, […]
For 175 years, the site of the Black Hawk Treaty of 1832 — the place of Davenport’s very origin — has been inaccessible, hidden in plain sight. Like the nearly-vacant lot that stood at the […]
Throughout history, walls have played a significant role in shaping our world. From the battlements surrounding ancient cities to the bright lines dividing nations, these structures have been a constant presence in our lives. However, […]
Imagine a German Jew who was a decorated German soldier in World War I, a resister in Cologne at the start of Hitler’s reign of terror, and a Silver Star decorated U.S. Army soldier. Three […]
Aside from his many military and political achievements, Frederick the Great was also an accomplished flutist, composer, and a lover of the arts. Among the musicians in his court was Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach, son […]
Aside from his many military and political achievements, Frederick the Great was also an accomplished flutist, composer, and a lover of the arts. Among the musicians in his court was Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach, son […]
This presentation will examine the accomplishments of Frederick II of Prussia as well as the controversies surrounding them. David Ellis, Ph.D. is a professor of History at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL. As part […]
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