Photo Gallery - 2024 Fall Belgian Fest & More

The Happy Belgians 2024

Learning How Lace is Made 2024

2024 - Follow Your Nose!


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Bobbins in the hands of an expert

Exquisite Handmade Lace


VanDeReuben on Raisin - So Good!

Rolle Bolle Time


Our 2024 Shirts






Horse-drawn carriage ride






Belgian Village To Go Master Chef

Emiel Aime DeWitte 1884 Poesele - 1973 Milan, IL. Labelled "Aime DeWitte"

Labelled "DeWitte", date unknown

Charles Lambert and Marguerite Goethals on their wedding day 1924

Pete Cornelis and wife Sophie Calsyn ca. 1908

Jules DEMEULENAERE, ca. 1933-1939

L to R Simone STERCK, Clara ?, Mary MEHUYS, Margaret DE NEVE, Yvonne & Sue DE SPEGHEL, Anne CORYN, Coach Otto GOETHALS

Back: Tillie BARBIER, Camiel Coppens, Front: ? Amery, Mary VERSLUIS Amery

Moline c 1910

Do you know us? Maurice Goethals, Front, center

Charlie COPPENS (l) and pals at Coppens' Tap

1895 Left to right: Unknown, Maurice HEIRBRANDT, Peter COPPENS

Camiel COPPENS (l)


Maurice BOGAERT, Peter DePaepe





Henry De Rooze in 1917



Scholarship Winners

Octave and Elodie



Pigeon Diploma and Carrier





100th Anniversary of Moline Honorary Consulate




Johny and Marnix Rijk visit the Center from Belgium