Ghost Tales Bring Spooky Fun To Colonel Davenport House This Weekend

Kick off the Halloween season as the Colonel Davenport Historical Foundation presents “Ghost Tales” with spooky stories told by local storytellers on the grounds of the Colonel Davenport House on Arsenal Island at 7 p.m. on Saturday, September 25, 2021. Local author Gena Schantz will kick off the stories with a reading from the book she wrote about George Davenport that was published in 2020.  The Trader at Rock Island: George Davenport and the Founding of the Quad Cities is the first and only biography ever written about the man for whom the city of Davenport is named.  Gena will... Read More