Bessie's Workbasket
2024-11-13 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Central School, 103 South Maple Street, Mount Prospect, IL, 60056, United States
Learn a new skill for the winter and learn how to crochet! If you already know the basics, join us to learn a few new stitches, just in time for the holidays. Bring a hook and yarn if you have some, otherwise we will have some on hand.

MPHS Book Club
2024-11-14 19:00 - 20:00 | Central School, 103 South Maple Street, Mount Prospect, IL, 60056, United States
Explore one boy’s view of Mount Prospect from the late 1950s through 1976 as he experiences Mount Prospect’s schools, businesses, and growing community. The author examines how the “boomer” generation created (and dismantled) culture.
Available at the Mount Prospect Public Library as a book, large type book, and audiobook.
Register at www.mtphist.org/mphsbookclub.

Holiday Housewalk
2024-12-06 15:30 - 21:00
This year’s annual Housewalk will take place in the We-Go Park neighborhood of Mount Prospect.
Tickets go on sale November 1st.

Second Sundays at the Society
2024-12-08 11:30 - 13:30 | Central School, 103 South Maple Street, Mount Prospect, IL, 60056, United States
Visit Central School for a variety of gingerbread themed activities, then head over to the Dietrich Friedrichs House Museum for a tour. The museum will be decorated for the holidays!
No registration is necessary. Free event.

Winter Evergreen class
2024-12-09 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-12-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Central School, 103 South Maple Street, Mount Prospect, IL, 60056, United States
Join us for a fun evening out while creating a beautiful winter evergreen arrangement!
All supplies will be provided but please bring your own gardening clippers/shears.

Bessie's Workbasket
2024-12-11 10:00 - 12:00, 2024-12-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Central School, 103 South Maple Street, Mount Prospect, IL, 60056, United States
We will make a variety of ornaments in the final Bessie’s Workbasket class for 2024.

Cemetery Walk at St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery
2025-10-12 12:30 - 15:30 | St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery, Mount Prospect, IL 60056, 101 North Elmhurst Avenuer, Mount Prospect, IL, 60056, United States
Stroll Among the Spirits of Mount Prospect’s Past
The Mount Prospect Historical Society is resurrecting its popular Cemetery Walk at St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery, 101 N. Elmhurst Avenue, just north of the Mount Prospect post office, on Sunday, October 12. This will be the first time it has been presented since 2017.
The walk will feature local residents dressed up as specific men and women from Mount Prospect history who helped shape the community into the place it is today. In all, about 11 historic figures will be portrayed, standing next to their characters’ graves, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.
As visitors walk through, the actors will talk about the people they are portraying and will converse with visitors, all in character.
Mayor Paul Hoefert will portray Henry W. Friedrichs, owner of the funeral home, for instance, while Village Clerk Karen Agoranos will play Ella Seegers Wille and former Mayor Arlene Juracek will transform into Irene Haberkamp of the Haberkamp Flowers family.
Cemetery visitors that day will also enjoy meeting Wilhelm Wille, John Phillip Moehling, Edwin Busse, Herman Meyn, Edwin Haberkamp, William Kirchhoff, Fred Meeske, PFC Elmer Piepenbrink, Henry Oehlerking and Frank Biermann.
The Cemetery Walk, which is sponsored by Friedrichs Funeral Home, is modeled after a similar, very popular event held annually in Elgin.
Admission is $15 per person (over age 13) at the gate or $10 per person (over age 13) in advance at www.mtphist.org. All proceeds will benefit the Society’s operating fund.
