Murphysburg.org Website Review

in 2018 with our members support, hmp made many accomplishments! click here to discover our activities.. in keeping with murphysburg’s veterans history project…patriots who served, hmp will highlight what was happening during times of war. in murphysburg and joplin.  what relationship did the residents of murphysburg have with veterans of all conflicts or military service?. find out the answer in the following weeks leading up to christmas eve.. learn about charles schifferdecker’s connection to the spanish-american war.. david tandy and why was he awarded  in consideration of military service in present day in murphysburg? for joplin’s city hall holiday window theme of “winter in cinema”, murphysburg shared a display of the film “joyeux noel”. mary anne phillips, murphysburg window committee member researched a movie appropriate for the theme, but also represented historic murphysburg.  she found a little-known film “joyeux noel” that makes the statement that means it all. when fellow committee member paula callihan learned about it, she knew it was a perfect choice.  it was on the eleventh day of the eleventh month in the year 2018 and people around the world would commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the end of the great war, now known as world war i. joyeux noel movie is based on a true story of an “unofficial” truce when soldiers from the royal dublin fusiliers met their german counterparts in “no man’s land” around ypres, belgium.  briefly, they ceased combat, shared cherished items they had and the next day resumed plans made by others. so, it began “live and let live”, the unofficial peace truce, a symbolic moment in a violent war. although the united states did not enter the war until 1917, this four women connected to the murphysburg historic district at the turn of the century will be honored during march-women’s history month.  historic murphysburg preservation, inc., a local non-profit organization, will celebrate the past by using present day