Fulton News
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Sunday, 05 September 2010 |
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Global Links Through Milling: ADM & Fulton's Windmill Cultural Center
Products from ADM, both in Clinton and in its European operations, will be exhibited at Fulton's Windmill Cultural Center daily in September and October 2010. For this special exhibit, Clinton's plant manager, Jim Woll, linked Clinton's ADM products with products from ADM's operations in the Netherlands, England, Germany, and France.
Fulton's de Immigrant Dutch windmill is operated by volunteers and several of its millers have been employees of the ADM plant in Clinton, Iowa. Their experiences with ADM's wet milling operations have given them insights into dry milling as they promote tourism at the grist mill in Fulton, Illinois.
In 2009, preparations were underway for the opening of Fulton's Windmill Cultural Center (WCC) which would house a gift of 21 model windmills from 10 European countries. Local retired volunteer educators sought the best ways to teach area schoolchildren about products from mills. Three of the Fulton teachers spent a week in Koog aan de Zaan, the Netherlands, where Pauline Gingnagel conducted a mill museum educational program. A short distance from that museum stood an ADM chocolate plant. In Fulton, the teachers lived 3 miles from an ADM plant and while learning in the Netherlands, they lived and studied just blocks from an ADM plant.
Two millers who manage Het Pink (The Yearling) in Koog aan de Zaan spent two weeks in Fulton in August 2010. They worked at Fulton's mill, shared their successes with a junior miller program in the Netherlands, and experienced similarities and differences between their mill on the Zaan River and the Fulton mill on the Mississippi.
The Windmill Cultural Center and de Immigrant windmill are open Monday through Friday 10-3, Saturday 10-5, and Sunday 1-5. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated.
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 |
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Artisans & Crafters Needed
The Fulton Fall Festival Arts & Crafts Show will be held Saturday, October 2 in downtown Fulton from 10am to 4pm. The cost to participate is $25 and includes a 10' x 10' space. The deadline to participate has been extended to September 20, 2010. For an application, please contact the Fulton Chamber of Commerce at 815-589-4545 or email
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. An application can also be downloaded from the city website under the Fall Fest events page.
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 |
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 Dutch Millers Spend Time in Fulton Fulton
Dutch millers, Andre Koopal and Christiaan Smit arrived in Fulton on July 25 for a two week work/visit with Fulton's volunteer millers and Friends of the Windmill. Koopal and Smit will conduct training sessions with Fulton's volunteer millers, work with junior millers, participate in round table brainstorming with local educators, and discuss volunteerism at Zaanse Schans, an open air museum.
Christiaan is an elementary school teacher in the Netherlands who also conducts junior miller workshops. Children from ages 9-14 meet weekly with him using hands-on construction activities connected to milling. Christiaan is also a volunteer miller at Het Pink, an oil mill, near the Zaan river. Andre is a Unix system administrator for a large telecom company and a volunteer at Het Pink and with TIMS, the International Molinological Society.
Midwestern cultural activities have been planned for the Dutch visitors and include a pontoon ride on the Mississippi, the river museum in Dubuque, the mills in Elmhurst, Batavia, and Pella, a Lumber Kings ball game in Clinton, and a final weekend in Chicago.
The Dutch millers will greet visitors with the Fulton millers at de Immigrant mornings July 27, 28, & 29 and afternoons July 31, August 1, & 4-6. Their flights were sponsored by Friends of the Windmill and Fulton's Volunteer Millers. They are houseguests for the two weeks at the home of a Fulton volunteer miller.
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Thursday, 01 July 2010 |
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 On Thursday afternoon, July 8, 2010, Ronald H. Koehn will present a PowerPoint program entitled "Chief Black Hawk and His War" which will review the man and the war that bears his name and their legacy in American history. The program is scheduled for 5:30 PM at the Windmill Cultural Center located at the corner of 1st Street and 10th Avenue in Fulton. The public is invited to attend.
Just three years before John Baker founded Baker's Ferry, later renamed Fulton in honor of Robert Fulton of steamboat fame, a band of Sauk and Fox Indians under the leadership of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kiakiak (or Black Sparrow Hawk) left imposed exile in the spring of 1832 in the Iowa Territory and returned to their homes across the Mississippi River in northwestern Illinois. These Native Americans had lost their tribal lands in Illinois in a disputed treaty negotiated by William Henry Harrison, a future president of the United States.
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Monday, 31 May 2010 |
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The Fulton Windmill Cultural Center's June exhibit will focus on Denmark through "Anni's Story." The Hans Larsen family of four left Denmark in 1953 to relocate in Fulton, Illinois. Anni was 9 years old and her immigrant experience will be told through a temporary display at the Center, June 2-30.
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