The Morrison County Historical Society is pleased to announce that it has received a Legacy grant through the Minnesota Historical & Cultural Grant program administered…
View More MCHS Receives Legacy Grant for Digital Access ProjectAuthor: Morrison County Historical Society
To Be a Shoe-Shine Boy in Little Falls & Camp Ripley
My first real paying job was shining the shoes of National Guardsmen in Little Falls and Camp Ripley. I was about 10 years old and…
View More To Be a Shoe-Shine Boy in Little Falls & Camp RipleyTo Be a Car Hop
Okay! I was a car hop at Sammy’s Drive-In in the ‘50s. We had “good” customers and some that weren’t so good, but “had” to…
View More To Be a Car HopTo Rake Leaves
Living at home entails participation; no, it requires one to help with chores around the house. Raking leaves was one task I was looking forward…
View More To Rake LeavesTo Be an Emigrant
We searched online (the Internet) for job postings within my husband’s company that would locate us north of I-94. Living in Red Wing, Minnesota, was…
View More To Be an EmigrantDewey Radke House Mugs Available
When the Dewey-Radke House was demolished in August this year (2011), Jan Warner, MCHS Executive Director, remembered that a local artist had donated a watercolor…
View More Dewey Radke House Mugs AvailableTo Attend the Lutefisk Supper at Bethel Lutheran Church
The following essay first appeared in “The EnLightener,” Bethel Lutheran Church’s newsletter, in December 2011. The Lutefisk Supper is a longstanding annual event which the…
View More To Attend the Lutefisk Supper at Bethel Lutheran ChurchCollections Carousel – Bling Apron Vote
In conjunction with this year’s exhibit, The Apron: Body Armour or Bling, visitors to The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum have enjoyed choosing their favorite…
View More Collections Carousel – Bling Apron VoteTo Be a Kiwanian
I moved to Little Falls in December of 2005. I had been a Kiwanian in Red Wing and decided to see if Little Falls had…
View More To Be a KiwanianTwo Weeks of Cookies & Cider
Hey, all, rather than hosting a limited-time holiday open house, as we’ve done in years past, we’ve decided to host a couple weeks’ worth of…
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