Romani Club's Three-Year Quest to Rome Ends in Italy
Anna-Jonesboro Romani Club members raised funds over three years by selling popcorn, donuts, magazines, and chipped in for a trip to Rome. Thirteen of thirty-nine planned travelers visited Milan Venice and the Vatican, viewing Catacombs and Florence with dreams of a Rome home and a dramatic river of floodwater in 1966.
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Wanda Barras
Rome
Anna-Jonesboro
Anna and
Jonesboro
Jan Schroeder
St. Louis
Jan
Pam
New York
Milan
Venice
Vatican
Florence
Michelangelo
Christopher Columbus
Italy
Anna- Jonesboro High School
Colos
Memories of Italy Trip End With Romani Club Dissolution
A travelogue recounts teenage travelers in Venice Florence and Rome, detailing gondola mishaps taxi misadventures and market finds. The group returns home after two weeks in Italy ending with the dissolution of the Romani Club a month later.
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Italy
Lorette
Rome
Logan school hosts Franklin County History Museum
The Frankfort Area Historical Society plans a museum in the old Logan School at 2000 E St Louis St in West Frankfort. It will display coal mining artifacts Rep Kenneth Gray papers and antique crafts with a folk festival to fund operations while preserving local heritage.
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West Frankfort
Franklin County
Abraham Lincoln
Dimmick
Old Inn Register
A. Lincoln
Lowell Grissom
Frankfort
Shawneetown
E. St. Louis St
Williamson County
Historical Society
Grissom
John A. Logan
Mabie Dimmick
East St. Louis
North Walnut Streets
Sunnyslope Street
Trinity Methodist Church
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Old Logan School
Franklin Museum