Want to know what the area was like before its current settlement? Come enjoy a lecture by Great Lakes Archaeologist, Dan Melone, as he discusses the peoples of pre-Waukegan and Lake County, and what is left behind. More specifically, Dan will present his prehistoric and historic findings throughout the local area and region in general.

Dan Melone is an archaeologist who over the past 20 years has traveled the Chicagoland area, finding and documenting unknown prehistoric and historic sites. He has visited many of the documented sites to monitor them, recording any looting or vandalism that may have occurred. Dan is the Director of The Great Lakes Archaeological Research and Archival Institute. He and Robinson descendent Verlyn Spreeman, are the Robinson Family Historians, working closely with Chief Alexander Robinson’s family, a branch of Menominee. Chief Robinson and Billy Caldwell worked together in Chicago during the 1830s.