Save the date! Our annual meeting is quickly approaching and everyone is invited! We are delighted to announce that we have a nationally known speaker: Douglas Stiles, the great-great-grandson of watchmaker Jonathan Dillon! Jonathan Dillon secretly engraved a message on Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch at the beginning of the Civil War and Douglas Stiles recently conducted research to verify it. The whole story was highlighted in a Smithsonian Museum exhibit. This will be an annual meeting you don’t want to miss!

You can read a New York Times article about the watch here: “Timeless Lincoln Memento Is Uncovered”