CCA Christensen’s Moving Mormon Panorama is one of the few to survive the 1800’s.  A moving panorama is a roll of large paintings sewn together to illustrate a lecture.  Christensen used his painting to illustrate his lecture on the history of his church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

CCA Christensen was born in Denmark in 1831 and studied at the Royal Academy of Art before his conversion.  He later immigrated to Utah pulling a handcart across the Midwest in 1857.  For the next 20 years, he farmed when he had to and painted when he could, starting the 24 paintings for his panorama in the 1870’s.  In 1879 he started exhibiting the panorama.  He spent the winters of the next three decades giving shows in communities of the West.  He died in 1912.

At the monthly meeting of the Historical Society of Scotch Plains and Fanwood on Tuesday evening May 22nd, Regina Ellis, a member of the Historical Society, a Mormon and a direct descendent of CCA Christensen, will show this Mormon Panorama saved by her uncle.  Her uncle took photography of the panorama and made slides from them.  He then gave the slides to Brigham Young University.  The University restored them.  This panorama has been exhibited all over the world.

This unique, historical and educational lecture about the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints illustrated with CCA Christensen’s panorama is free and open to everyone.

The meeting will be held at the Scotch Hills Country Club on Plainfield Avenue and Jerusalem Road in Scotch Plains,  on Tuesday, May 22nd at 8:00PM.  Refreshments and fellowship follow the meeting.   Please join us for a most fascinating evening.  Contact Connie Klock at 908-232-9489 for further information or write to us.

Please join us on Sunday, May 6, 2012, from 2PM to 4PM, at the Osborn-Cannonball House Museum.

A program of dolls dressed in fashions from multiple eras will be featured.  Costumed docents will be on hand to explain the history and origin of the fashions, and in general, about the museum.

The event is open to the public, and there is no charge for admission.

This is a community wide “Show and Tell” so we invite and encourage everyone to bring a piece of their history.  Share it and its story with us.  Some of the Osborn Cannonball Museum’s recent acquisitions will be presented.

This monthly meeting of the Historical Society of Scotch Plains and Fanwood is free and open to everyone.  It will take place on Tuesday evening, April 24th, 2012, starting at 8:00PM.

Please note, for this month only, it will be held at the historic Fanwood Train Station on North and Martine Avenues.  Fittingly it will be held in the Fanwood Historical Commission Museum on the first floor.

Refreshments and fellowship follow the meeting.  So come on down to the old train station and journey back in time.

For further information contact Connie Klock at 908-232-9489 or contact us.

Hope to see you there!