The St. Charles County Historical Society July Quarterly Luncheon Meeting will be held on Saturday, July 23rd. it will be held at Noon at the Stegton Regency Banquet Center at 1450 Wall Street in St. Charles.
The speakers will be Ken Luebbering and Robyn Burnett, “Gospels in Glass.”
“The stories of stained glass windows are the stories of heroes and villains of saints and sinners, of murderers and martyrs. Some of these stories are from lands and times far from our own. They take place in ancient Rome, in Constantinople, in France and in England. They also take place in St. Louis and Kansas City, in St. Joseph and New Madrid. Sometimes they are entirely factual, sometimes they reveal truth in other ways, but they always tell us something about ourselves, about who we are and how we got that way. Together they make up the history of Missouri stained glass windows, but the also tell us the histories of the Christian faith, of immigrants in a new land, of artists struggling to create beauty and reveal truth.” (From the back cover of their book “Gospels in Glass” Pebble Publishing, 2000)
This program is part of the Missouri Humanities Council Program Bureau with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The public is invited to attend. The cost of the luncheon is $12 per person. Send your reservations to the St. Charles County Historical Society at 101 S. Main Street, St. Charles, MO 63301.
