Bates Printing sponsors the Brown Bag Lunch Series, which is in its fourth year. It continues on the fourth Tuesday of each month through October.

The event, which is held in the Museum lobby, is free and open to the public; no reservations are required, but seats fill early. The Massillon Museum is located at 121 Lincoln Way East in downtown Massillon. For more information, call the Massillon Museum at 330-833-4061.

Media Contacts:
Margy Vogt, Museum Public Relations & Lunch Series Chair - (click here to email Margy)

The Massillon Museum Brown Bag Lunch Series provides programs in a variety of topics. See our upcoming Brown Bag Lunches below.

Upcoming Brown Bag Lunches: 2011

Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Michael Lasser, Music Historian, Author, Lecturer
"Just Wait Till I Get Back to O-HI-O: What Songs About the Midwest Tell Us About America"

Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Doug Scheetz, President, Scheetz Design, LLC - Russell & Co. Enthusiast and Collector
"The Russell & Company: Too Little. Too Late. A Look at What Might Have Been"

Tuesday, September 27, 2011
M.J. Albacete, Executive Director, Canton Museum of Art
"The Music of the Civil War"

Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Dick Waco, WCER 900 AM, Northern Ohio's Voice of the Big Bands
"The Lighter Side of Radio"

Previous Brown Bag Lunches 2011

Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Jessica Bennett • Executive Director, Indigo Ink Press
"Stark ARThology: The Making of Stark’s First Art Anthology"

Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Jerry “Abe” Payn • Historian
"Abraham Lincoln: 150 Years after the Convention"

Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Mary Jane Corwin • Owner, The Amherst Rose Tea Room
"The Dutchess of Bedford Tells All—The First Real Tea Party"

Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Carey Elvey • Naturalist, The Wilderness Center
"Ohio Rocks"

Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Mark Dwidziak • Author, Actor, and Twain Scholor
"On the Mark: Twain Ties to Ohio"

Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Jennifer Brumfield, Naturalist, Scientific Illustrator, Birding Tour Guide
"Bird Calls"

Previous Brown Bag Lunches 2010

Tuesday, January 26
The Art of Good Housekeeping in the Good Old Days!
Charlene Poulos
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Tuesday, February 23
"A Few Considerations of A. Lincoln"
In conjunction with the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birthday
Christopher Craft, Massillon Museum
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Tuesday, March 23
"Exploring Holocaust Literature"
In conjunction with The Big Read (The Shawl by Cyunthia Ozick)
Tom Sosnowski, Kent State University, Stark Campus
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Tuesday, April 27
"The Greek Community in Stark County"
Bill Samonides
Book Signing to follow lunch
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Tuesday, May 25
"The Town Clock"
Les Peine
In conjunction with the 200th anniversary of Methodists in Massillon
And the restoration of The Town Clock (in the steeple of the church!)
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Tuesday, June 22
"Annie Oakley"
(In conjunction with “Sawdust and Spectacle” circus exhibition)
Jean Rice, Massillon Public Library
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Tuesday, July 27
"Creating Crankshaft"
Chuck Ayers, Co-creator of the Comic Strip “Crankshaft"
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Tuesday, August 24
"Against the Grain: Modernism in the Midwest"
Christine Fowler Shearer, Executive Director, Massillon Museum
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Tuesday, September 28
"100 Years of Scouting: Celebrating the Adventure/Continuing the Journey"
David Truax, Boy Scout Executive
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Tuesday, October 26
"Massillon Matinee: Theatres of the Stage and Screen"
Mandy Altimus Pond, Archivist, Massillon Museum
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Previous Brown Bag Lunches 2009

Tuesday, January 27
"Your FBI"
Gerald Graybill, retired FBI Agent
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Tuesday, February 24
"Lancets, Leeches, and Laudnum: A Short History of Medicine in 19th-Century Ohio"
Matt Lautzenheiser, Director, Dover Historical Society and J.E. Reeves Home
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Tuesday, March 24
"The Big Read: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton"
Erika Koss, Literature Specialist
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Tuesday, April 28
"The Hip-Hooray and Bally-Hoo: Popular Music's Take on New York City"
Michael Lasser, Music Historian, Author, Lecturer
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Tuesday, May 26
"CSI: Massillon (Unsolved Massillon Murders!)"
Joe Herrick, Captin, Massillon Police Department
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Tuesday, June 23
"The Unsinkable Molly Brown"
Sally Whiston, Living History Re-enactor
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Tuesday, July 28
"The Easter Sunday Fire" (with historic background by Margy Vogt)
Chief Tom Burgasser, Massillon Fire Department
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Tuesday, August 25
"Stepping up to the Plate in Ohio: The Negro Leagues in the Buckeye State"
Leslie Heaphy, Ph.D, Associate Professor, History & Honors Co-coordinator, Kent State University Stark
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Tuesday, September 22
"Black Market: The Crash(es) of 1929 and the Coming of the Great Depression"
Shawn Selby, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, History, Kent State University Stark
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations

Tuesday, October 27
"Edgar Allen Poe"
John Kiste, Executive Director, Canton/Stark Convention & Visitors' Bureau
Noon to 1:00 p.m. ~ Free/No Reservations