The Iola Historical Society will meet on Monday, June 27, in the Machine Shed, 222 Depot Street.

The board will meet at 5:30 p.m. with the membership meeting at 6:30 p.m. Business will be the Halfway Point Annual Review and Recalculation.

At 7 p.m. there will be a Show ‘n’ Tell Mystery or Two.

On June 23 there will be a workday starting at 9 a.m.

Strawberry Fest will be Sunday, June 26, starting at 11 a.m.

On Tuesday, June 28, members will stuff Goodie Bags starting at 9 a.m.

On Thursday, July 14, the group will unveil its latest historical marker at Riverside Cemetery at 10 a.m.

Other IHS highlights

On Monday May 2, the Iola Lions Club held their monthly meeting in the Machine Shed. After dinner, Lee and Sue will gave a tour of the schoolhouse.

Sometime in May, the rest of the pathway in the courtyard was completed.

Saturday, July 16, will be the Taste and Tunes chamber event. The IHS will host a group to perform on the flatbed rail car by the depot. Music from the 1920s will be featured. Picnic tables will be set up this year.

History organizations in Plover, Manawa and Amherst were pleased to receive the extra Iola Heralds that Bonny had from her work in the Resource Center. She also received some Waupaca County Post collections from 1981 and 1918 from the Waupaca Historical Society.

The organization withdrew $5000 from its endowment fund for the initial budget to cover restoration of the depot.