Hello Falter Fans,
Happy 4th of July! We hope you had a wonderful and safe Independence Day weekend with family and friends.
The museum will remain closed throughout July, but we will do our best to accommodate visitors who want to visit. Call Dobey at least a day ahead to schedule an appointment. She can be reached at 402-450-3724
Even though we aren't able to be open during this unprecedented time, our donors continue to be there for us: Bob and Jo Ann Neman, Gary and Glenda Nelson, John and Loralee Weaver, Steve Steinbrink and Joan Hueffner, Sharon and Norm Horn, Ron and Nancy Kelley and F&M Bank have made monetary donations during the first half of 2020; former Falls City native Kurt Leininger has donated a beautiful original oil study of "Kansas City Riverfront, 1850" in honor of his late mother, Mary Davisson Leininger; "Falter Fan" Barbara Fite of Lutz, FL, has donated her mother's six print set, "From Sea to Shining Sea," that John was commissioned to paint for the 3M Company in 1976 for the Bicentennial.
Kansas City Riverfront, 1850. Donated by Kurt Leininger.
Along with our many visitors, the following media outlets and other state and local entities have shown their wonderful support over the years:
The Richardson Foundation, The Stalder Foundation, The Vandeberg Foundation, Frontier Bank, F&M Bank,The Falls City Journal, KTNC am radio, Sunny 101.3 fm radio and fm radio 103.1, Richardson County Visitors Bureau, Chamber/Mainstreet, Falls City City Council, Falls City Library and Art Center, Library and Community Foundation of Richardson County, Rotary Club, FCPD, Halbert Dunn and Halbert LLC, Robert Aitken CPA PC, Mitch Glaeser (Gainesville, FL) and Diana Orton of the Grand Weaver Hotel all of Falls City/Richardson County; the Humboldt Standard; Nebraska Life Magazine, NCN TV both of Norfolk, NE; KOLN/KGIN TV, Nebraska Educational Television, Nebraska History Museum, Nebraska Tourism (Passport Program) all of Lincoln, NE and the donors from all over the country who adopted the Saturday Evening Post Covers for the exhibit.
Attached below are the Donor board and the poster of the 129 SEP covers that are in the vault.
Former Falls Cityan Jonah Santo, who has been our loyal and talented IT guy and newsletter editor for our first five years of operation, is stepping down to pursue other interests. He also was our #1 docent the summer of 2016 when we were first on Nebraska's Passport Program. Thank you, Jonah, for all your great work. We will miss you and we wish you nothing but the best for the future! Taking over for Jonah is Falter's cousin Jim Langan, who is a native and resident of Falls City. We are looking forward to your talents as you assume this new role, Jim!
Everyone have a wonderful and safe summer!
Dobey
This newsletter’s featured cover:
“Independence Parade”
Adopted By: The Rotary Club of Falls City
The gay crowds, brass band and holiday bunting on John Falter's Fourth of July cover can only give the people of Perkasie, Pennsylvania, a vicarious thrill because their parades have been discontinued for the duration. The townspeople haven't time for them anymore. They're busy writing letters to the girls and boys in service, mailing them vest-pocket copies of the News-Herald, their home-town newspaper, taking snapshots of places around town that maybe the kids are homesick for, and sending each one a dollar a month for pin money. We imagine that Perkasie folks will be sending this cover to their service men and women, too; so, for the record, the Moyer Building is still a hardware store and storage place--the professional men whose names appear on its windows are tenants installed by Mr. Falter to make the place look lived in.
July 7, 1945
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