Herrin Area Historical Society Guest Lecture Series presents “Special Collections – Morris Library – SIU” on Friday, November 16, 2018, at 2:00 pm in the Tony Galines Meeting Room.  Aaron Lisec, a research specialist with Speicial Collections Research Center (SCRC), will present highlights from Morris Library’s historical collections, particularly maps, documents, and letters from frontier Illinois.  Our state celebrates its 200th anniversary in December 2018, and SCRC holds many rate and scare assets of Illinois’ earliest days.  Lisec will alos discuss items from the collection of Hal Trovillion, Herrin’s premeier, prolific printer-publish of the early twentieth centerury. Admission is free and open to the public.