DeKALB – Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend the Joseph F. Glidden Homestead Annual Meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11 at the homestead’s Welcome Center, 921 W. Lincoln Highway in DeKalb.

The program will include a presentation by the homestead’s blacksmiths, who are creating an iron scroll work frame for new signage in the museum’s front yard. The meeting will include recognition of people who have donated historic items to the homestead and a PowerPoint review of 2012. A birthday cake will be served, honoring the 200th anniversary of Joseph F. Glidden’s birth.

Officers and board members will be elected in a brief business meeting. The positions have been tentatively filled; officers and board members will be installed after the formal vote at the meeting.