Annual Floyd County Historical Society xmas open house today at the Crushing Civic Burden of Extractive Industrial Tyranny (a.k.a. Padgett) Museum.

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The Floyd County Historical Society's Padgett Museum Auxiliary will have their Annual Christmas Open House on Saturday, December 10, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. The Padgett Museum is located at 509 West Market Street, New Albany, The Museum will be decorated for the holidays and homemade cookies and refreshments will be served. The meeting is free and open to the public.

About the Floyd County Historical Society Padgett Museum:

The Padgett Museum is housed in the historic Wm. Young House - Built in 1837. Located at 509 West Market Street in New Albany, the house was donated to the Society by Jim and Beverly Padgett in 2006.

Snarky editorial embellishments:

Sunday at the Padgett with Floyd County's experience in the Civil War.

The Civil War exhibit upstairs at the Padgett Museum has been there since spring, and finally we made time to view it. All I can say is: Recommended.

As perhaps subconsciously prompted by the Civil War's centennial in 1961, I developed an obsession with the war as a child, and by the age of 14, ripped through all the library's books on the topic. Now the 150th anniversary is coming, just next year, and there are folks who don't think the Mason-Dixon Line still matters. Really? Try attending a bridges authority meeting.

The photo roster above and below dates back to 1903; it's the organization of Union war veterans in New Albany and Floyd County, including about a hundred old-timers, with perhaps a half-dozen clean shaven faces among them.

Downtown events this Sunday (April 26).

Come to think of it, the Bank Street Brewhouse is open Sundays from noon to 8:00 p.m., and the Windsor's doing Sunday brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Cheese or cheesy? Choices on a Thursday evening in April.

The city council meets tonight, and 3rd district councilman Steve Price would like your help in locating grandma's cookie jar so he can gaze yet again upon the big picture.

Visit the city clerk’s website for the meeting agenda, and read previews in the Courier-Journal and Tribune.

Meanwhile, the senior editor will be pouring NABC beer, munching goat cheese from Capriole Farms and exchanging gossip at tonight’s "Exclusively New Albany" fundraiser for Develop New Albany and the Auxiliary of the Padgett Museum, which begins at 6:00 p.m. at the at the Zinsmeister House at 1420 E. Market.

Here’s the April 2008 Develop New Albany newsletter.