Tiskilwa museum to host Nellie Bly program

Journalist completed 72-day trip around the world

Tiskilwa Historical Society invites the community to a presentation 7 p.m. Monday, May 13, by Owen Muelder, author of “The Underground Railroad in Western Illinois.”

Tiskilwa Historical Society invites the community to an entertaining and enlightening evening at 7 p.m. Monday, April 14, as Tricia Kelly portrays the plucky Nellie Bly, a journalist who famously completed a 72-day trip around the world in 1891-1892.

Nellie surprised people in numerous other ways, too, with her investigative reporting and business acumen. All programs at Tiskilwa’s Museum on Main are free of charge and open to the public. It is located at 110 E. Main St.

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