Region of Three Oaks Museum to feature pioneer portraits during

Art Attack weekend

Nearly two dozen portraits of area pioneers will be displayed at the Three Oaks

Heritage Hall at 8 E. Linden Street during Art Attack weekend, Friday through Sunday, April 28-30.

Local arts vendors will also be selling their creations at the Heritage Hall, Three Oaks’ oldest building, which was built in 1867.

The portraits, part of the Chamberlain-Warren Museum collection, have just returned to The Region of Three Oaks Museum (TROTOM) after a halfcentury of being stored at Michigan State University. Pioneers depicted in the portraits include:

• Sylvester and Sally Shedd, among the area’s earliest settlers. arriving in 1836. Sally Shedd led the first Sunday School classes in the Spring Creek area. Sylvester was a veteran of the War of 1812.

• John and Catherine Sittig, German immigrants who came to this country in 1859. Some of their descendants still live on Sittig Road, south of Three Oaks.

• Selim Ahmed Shakir, a Palestinian Christian who met Three Oaks’ industrialist E. K. Warren when Warren was touring the Holy Land. Shakir moved to Three Oaks and worked at the Featherbone Company during the early 1900s.

• Daniel B. Clark and wife Sarah. D. B. Clark was a Methodist minister in Chikaming Township in the latter half of the 19th century and Sarah was said to be “a copartner with her husband in the work of soul-winning”.

• Job and Jane Jenkins, a British couple who emigrated first to Canada and then to Michigan in 1865, operating a farm between Sawyer and New Troy for nearly 40 years.

The Heritage Hall portrait display and art sale will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 28 and 29 and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 30.

The Region of Three Oaks Museum, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization, will open for the 2023 season Friday, May 5. The museum will be open noon to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday, through the end of October.