As I write this, our dutiful staff is literally up to their elbows in cleaning our beautiful mansion!  We will soon be back to our regular tour schedule and calling for volunteers.  I’m encouraging all those who volunteered in November and December to please sign up to help this Spring. Our hours are Friday and Saturday noon to 3:00 pm.  

This holiday season attendance was the highest it’s been in years! We are anticipating the trend to continue this Spring with a new exhibit on the horizon and an ever growing online presence!

Our Guild board is also growing!  I would like to welcome Dianne Kauffman and Janet Haas. Dianne will head up our Garden committee and will be scheduling regular weeding and maintenance events this spring and summer.  Janet will take Deb Thomas’s place as our recording secretary.  We appreciate Deb’s long term commitment and service to our board.  We hope to continue to see her helping in our Cellar Door Store Boutique.  

Please check out the info about the upcoming book club authors, the pot luck soup and salad luncheon and stay abreast of all our activities by checking our website!

As always, thank you for your continued support!

 ~Ann Cousins

Greetings to our HHM Guild members!

As always, it has been a busy few months during what must be the l-o-n-g-e-s-t winter on
record! The holiday season went by so fast and since the New Year, our small staff has been
hard at work with the annual cleaning and maintenance cycle at HHM. You become well
acquainted with a collection when high up on a ladder or scaffold while cleaning walls,
woodwork, handwashing or mending textiles. It has been a challenge, but I believe you will be
happy with the result. We have a few tasks remaining but are now on the homestretch. Hope
to see you all on or after our March 1 opening!

This year promises to be jam-packed with the types of events, exhibits, book clubs, tours, and
occasions that keep the Hower Family’s legacy alive and make the HHM so memorable. Please
plan to visit and get involved, won’t you? We look forward to seeing you soon.

~ Linda Bussey, Director

The 2025 Season is quickly approaching and we are excited to add more volunteers to our team! We will be open to the public of Fridays and Saturdays with "assisted" self-guided tours 12PM-3PM, with the last tour starting at 2PM.

Tours Start Friday March 7ty! 

Please email dmm47@uakron.edu or call 330.972.6909 if you are interested and would like to sign up to host (greet and collect admission) or monitor (be accessible to the guests on each floor to assist with needs and/or questions). The volunteer shift is from 11:45p - 3:30p (at the latest) on Friday and Saturday. This is a great opportunity for high school and college students in need of volunteer hours.  There are also opportunities to help in the Cellar Door Boutique!  

We are a few months into our 2025 Membership Campaign for the Hower House Museum Guild! It's not too late to join!

Our memberships run on the calendar year, January - December. 

Join us for a talk by local author, Travis Hreno.

When a jury finds a defendant not guilty, even though they clearly committed the crime, that’s called jury nullification. Join us for a discussion about the broader ethical, social, political, and philosophical contours of this issue with Travis Hreno, author of Jury Nullification: The Jurisprudence of Jurors' Privilege.

Call Hower House Museum to make your reservations: 330.972.6909 Please feel free to leave a message a we will return your call. (Reservations are encouraged but not required.)

Free for HHM Guild members with current membership; $8 special price for our HHM guests! $2 for Students with proper ID (If you decide to join the HHM Guild this evening, you will not have to pay the door charge.)

Limited seating, light refreshments served; free onsite parking for guests.

Join us for a talk by local author, Kathyrn Hardgrove Popio.

Three families with men gone to Civil War. 

Three different stories.

Three different outcomes. 

While cannons fired celebratory rounds at the depot in Massillon, Ohio, ordinary family life was savored page-by-delicious-page from the busy pen of Margaret Jackson Hardgrove. 

Passing in the mail were letters of Lieut. John Henry Hardgrove, overflowing with adventure or misery deep in the sweltering South. 

Letters were opened... history changed.  

Call Hower House Museum to make your reservations: 330.972.6909 Please feel free to leave a message a we will return your call. (Reservations are encouraged but not required.)

Free for HHM Guild members with current membership; $8 special price for our HHM guests! $2 for Students with proper ID (If you decide to join the HHM Guild this evening, you will not have to pay the door charge.)

Limited seating, light refreshments served; free onsite parking for guests.

Unless otherwise noted, these events are open to all current members and invited guests of the Hower House Museum Guild.

Preregistration is encouraged, but not required.

(330) 972.6909 or email dmm47@uakron.edu

The prices listed here are subject to change and based on the maximum amount estimated for the cost of participating. No other charged or fees should apply. Participants are expected to pay these charges as they arise.

In other words, there is no cost to join us, but you will need to pay your own admission and buy your own food, when applicable.

Please let us know what you plan to bring when you RSVP! 

Let’s talk about the garden project, the tea program, and other ideas for programs at the museum.

Tea and refreshments will be served.