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Halloween Week at the Historical Museum
In the spirit of the new exhibit, Odd Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Historical Museum offers odd and peculiar activities for all ages this Halloween season. You can get creative with "grave" arts and crafts, enjoy screenings of famed magician Harry Houdini's early film exploits, join in the hunt for Wisconsin's spookiest stories and places, and meet some colorful characters from Wisconsin's past wandering our exhibit floors. If you need something to do with the kids on their days off, consider our "grave" arts and crafts, where kids can make masks or design a tombstone. Milling about will be several colorful characters from Erika Janik's popular book Odd Wisconsin. Among the people you can meet are Alexis St. Martin, a 19th-century fur trader who lived most of his life with a shotgun hole in his side; Mary Hayes-Chynoweth, the psychic healer from Waterloo; and Archibald McArthur, the once prominent Dodgeville lawyer turned hermit.
Wisconsin's own Harry Houdini is the subject of our film offerings this year (see the schedule below). In Haldane of the Secret Service, Houdini plays Heath Haldane, an undercover operative assigned to infiltrate a band of counterfeiters within the dark alleys of New York's Chinatown. In The Man From Beyond, Houdini stars as Howard Hilary, a man frozen in the arctic who returns to civilization 100 years later to reclaim the love of his life reincarnated in the body of a young woman. In Terror Island, Houdini plays a swashbuckling inventor who steers his high-tech submarine to a forbidden isle to rescue the father of the woman he loves. Also showing will be the complete action-packed serial The Master Mystery. In this program, Houdini plays government agent Quentin Locke, who infiltrates a corrupt patents company only to run into the gleaming terror of its robot protector.
Other intriguing tales can be found in the exhibit Odd Wisconsin, which explores a side of history you probably didn't hear in the classroom. To give you an idea of what is in store, take a peek at these intriguing and unusual objects. So satisfy your curiosity and visit Odd Wisconsin during Halloween Week at the Wisconsin Historical Museum.
Halloween Week runs from October 28 through October 31. Following is a detailed schedule of the week's programs and movies.
:: Posted October 27, 2008
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