Holiday Tea
2022-12-04 12:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Community Hall (Volunteer Fire Department), Next to Fire Department, Ogden Dunes, IN, 46368, United States

DEC 4 Holiday Tea
2022-12-04 12:00 - 16:30 | Community/Fire Hall, Hillcrest Road, Ogden Dunes, IN, 46368, United States

March Program: A Road Trip to Pharmacy History
2023-03-19 13:00 - 16:30 | IN
March Program: A Road Trip to Pharmacy History
For Members Only
A special on-the-road trip to the History of Pharmacy Museum, 125 Broad Street in Griffith, Indiana, on Sunday, March 19 open only to members of the Historical Society of Ogden Dunes. Members will have 2 choices for tours: 1 PM and 2:30 PM. Each group will be limited to about ten persons. Reservations must be made in advance and only by HSOD members. There is no fee to be charged. HSOD members will meet at the OD Volunteer Fire Department Parking lot at 12:15 for the 1PM tour and meet at 1:45 for the for the 2:30 PM.
Contact Dorothy Kurtz for reservation. Text or call cell 219-201-1166. Email: dotkurtz16@gmail.com . Make a reservation by March 9.
Members will car pool to the museum. Be sure to call, text or email your reservation. More information on the museum can be gathered at www.pharmacyantiques.com for a short video or by calling Joan Meister at 708-383-7105.

The Mnomen Project - Pokagon Band & National Park
2023-04-16 16:00 - 17:00 | Community/Fire Hall, Hillcrest Road, Ogden Dunes, IN, 46368, United States

Soccer Reunion & Program
2023-05-28 16:00 - 17:00 | Community/Fire Hall, Hillcrest Road, Ogden Dunes, IN, 46368, United States

Ice Cream Social
2023-05-29 11:30 - 13:30 | Hour Glass Museum, 8 Lupine Lane, Ogden Dunes, IN, 46368, United States

2023 Art Walk
2023-06-10 15:00 - 18:00 | Ogden Dunes, IN
The 4th Annual Art Walk: FOR THE LOVE OF ART is scheduled for Saturday, June 10, 2023, between 3PM and 6PM. Sunday will again be planned as the rain date.

Chairman Kelly Hunt Vander Vliet has participated each year with interesting family created hangings at first home on west side of Ogden Dunes.

The committee wants to see all ages involved. Participants do not need to remain with exhibit but they may. If you have a friend that wants to show with you that is fine too. Registration will be on line as well as completing a form that is put in the HSOD box. More details will follow in the Spring.

In addition to Kelly, Joyce Scully will work on publicity and photography of event. Others involved will be Joan Meister, and board members, Collette Fried, Judy Petrou, Dorothy Kurtz. If want to be involved or have ideas to share, contact Kelly at joelvandervliet@gmail.com.

Remember all the arts: creative, painting sketching, crafting, drama, music, floral arranging. Name it; Ogden Dunes wants you to share it! Walk about, ride about. See your neighbors. A map indicating participants will be available at the entrance and the Hour Glass as well as online.

Nature Walk
2023-09-17 14:00 - 15:30 | IN
With Odin Bules, National Park Ranger. We will start at Long Lake Park tennis courts at 2 and end at the newly renovated Hour Glass Museum at 3:30 p.m. Tree & plant identification along with tips to manage invasive plants & trees.

The Legend of Belle Gunness (allias Hell's Belle)
2023-10-22 16:00 - 17:00 | IN
Bruce Johnson will give a program on Belle Gunness, a serial killer in the area from 1884 to 1908. Gunness is thought to have killed at least fourteen people, most of whom were men she enticed to visit her rural Indiana property. Some reports up to 40 males were murdered. Some said she died in a fire in 1908, or did she? Program at 4-5p.

Pre Halloween Halloween
2023-10-29 16:00 - 17:00 | IN
A get together for kids to read stories and receive Halloween treats (No tricks).

Artists of the Dunes
2023-11-19 16:00 - 17:00 | IN
Artists of the Dunes with Serena Ard (Curator, Westchester Township History Museum). A review of talented people who have made their mark in oil, watercolor, and photographs over the past decades.

Holiday Tea
2023-12-03 12:00 - 15:00 | IN
A lovely get together in the spirit of an English Tea with music and wonderful sweets – a long tradition in the community.

Holiday Tea
2023-12-03 12:00 - 15:00 | Hour Glass Museum, 8 Lupine Lane, Ogden Dunes, IN, 46368, United States
Please join us for a traditional tea at the newly renovated Hour Glass cottage now with a lift/elevator to the main hall. This year at Nutcracker Exhibit, bring your favorite nutcracker!

Ogden Dune Historical Society - Community Art Walk
2024-06-08 14:00 - 18:00 | Ogden Dunes, IN
Obtain free map of who are all exhibiting at the Community Center or the Historical Society Hour Glass Museum 8 Lupine Road.

History of the Pokagon Band of the Potawatomi Nation
2024-07-21 16:00 - 17:00 | Community/Fire Hall, Hillcrest Road, Ogden Dunes, IN, 46368, United States
This Sunday at the Community Center (in the Fire Station building). Open House at the Museum from 2-4p (8 Lupine)

Dr. Patel presentation
2024-11-17 15:00 - 17:00 | Hour Glass Museum, 8 Lupine Lane, Ogden Dunes, IN, 46368, United States

Holiday Tea Dec 8
2024-12-08 12:00 - 15:00 | Hour Glass Museum, 8 Lupine Lane, Ogden Dunes, IN, 46368, United States

Sunday, Feb 2
2025-02-02 16:00 - 17:00 | Community/Fire Hall, Hillcrest Road, Ogden Dunes, IN, 46368, United States

Open House - Sunday, August 24, 2025 - 2 to 4 p.m.
2025-08-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Hour Glass Museum, 8 Lupine Lane, Ogden Dunes, IN, 46368, United States
Join us at the Hour Glass from 2 to 4 p.m. for an open house!

Hoosiers in Sports
2025-09-21 16:00 | Hour Glass Museum, 8 Lupine Lane, Ogden Dunes, IN, 46368, United States
Come hear the amazing, admirable, and inspiring stories of people from Indiana who excelled in everything from basketball, football, and baseball to boxing, bicycle racing, and horse racing.
Bruce Johnson, the County Historian for LaPorte County, will speak at The Hour Glass Museum, 8 Lupine Lane, in Ogden Dunes on:
Sunday, September 21, 2025, at 4 p.m.
The lecture is free and open to the public, and complimentary refreshments will be served.

Underground Railroad Program
2025-10-12 15:00 | Community Hall (Volunteer Fire Department), Next to Fire Department, Ogden Dunes, IN, 46368, United States
Dr. Larry McClellan: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Illinois and Northwest Indiana

In the decades before the Civil War, more than 4500 enslaved people escaping from the South traveled across Illinois, with many coming to and through the Chicago region. With maps and images, we explore their stories and those of the people who responded to them and became the Underground Railroad.
After graduate work at the University of Chicago, in 1970, Larry helped create Governors State University south of Chicago and served there for 30 years. He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Community Studies. In the mid-70s, he was mayor of University Park (then Park Forest South). He spent four years as a senior consultant with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, and throughout his career, served as a pastor with diverse congregations.
His consulting, research, and writing focus on freedom seekers and the Underground Railroad, and on African American and regional history south of Chicago. Major publications include 25 articles in the Encyclopedia of Chicago [2005]; The Underground Railroad South of Chicago [2019], co-author of To the River, The Remarkable Journey of Caroline Quarlls, a Freedom Seeker on the Underground Railroad [2019]. Onward to Chicago: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois [2023], published by Southern Illinois University Press. This received the national 2023 Memorial Prize for the Advancement of Knowledge from the Underground Railroad Free Press and a book award from the Newberry Library in 2025. In 2022, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Illinois State Historical Society for his contributions to Illinois history, and in 2024, he served on the Illinois Underground Railroad Task Force reporting to the state legislature.
Larry has spoken at 6 Illinois state history conferences and 3 national conferences of the National Park Service Network to Freedom program. He was the principal researcher for listings on the NPS Network to Freedom national register of Underground Railroad sites in Crete, Lockport, and Chicago. Some of his work will be found at illinoisundergroundrailroad.info
For ten years, he wrote a monthly regional history column for The Southtown/Star newspapers. Larry graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles, with a year at the University of Ghana in West Africa, and additional studies in Great Britain and Jerusalem. He has served on the boards of the Illinois State Historical Society and the Will County Historical Society and has given lectures and programs across Illinois. Currently, he is President of the Midwest Underground Railroad Network (MURN).
Larry McClellan, 3430 W. Oak Hill Drive, Crete, IL 60417 mcclellan.larry@gmail.com

Planting for the Spring
2025-11-09 15:00 | Hour Glass Museum, 8 Lupine Lane, Ogden Dunes, IN, 46368, United States
More info TBA!

HSOD Holiday Tea – December 7, 2025
2025-12-07 | Hour Glass Museum, 8 Lupine Lane, Ogden Dunes, IN, 46368, United States
Join us for a delightful Holiday Tea at the Hour Glass Museum on Sunday, December 7th, hosted by the Historical Society of Ogden Dunes. Choose between two seating times at 12:00 p.m. or 3:00 p.m. and enjoy a cozy, festive atmosphere.

Sunday, December 7th 2025
The Hour Glass Museum | 115 Hillcrest Road, Ogden Dunes, Indiana 46368
Seatings @ 12 p.m. & 3 p.m.
$30 Adults | $20 Children

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