Little Falls Christmas Tours – 2025
Once again, the Morrison County Historical Society will be taking part in the annual Little Falls Christmas Tours. We will be featuring The Nutcracker Suite.…
Bert Rudie – Part VIII
Larry Litchy’s Chrysler I vaguely remember when I was around seven, maybe eight years old, Lawrence Litchy used to cook moonshine. I remember he came…
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The Happy Farmer On the farm we had horses to do all of the field work. I used to have to cultivate and plow everything…
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In 1932, the Dort I remember when I was just a little guy – I must have been maybe five- or six-years old and my…
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Free Movies It was a big treat for youngsters when in the Bowlus Park, every Friday night during the summer they would have free movies.…
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Eggs and Cream When we milked the cattle, we didn’t have any place to keep the cream that they separated. So they had to put…
View More Bert Rudie – Part IVCollections Carousel – Little Falls High School Commencement Program, 1898
On May 27, 1898, Marie Louise Richard and five classmates – Nettie F. Carley, Ernest M. Merrick, Grace E. Mahan, J. Henry Guerin, Leigh V.…
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Building the New Farm House It was around 1938 or 1939 when my parents decided to replace or build a new house on the farm.…
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Bad Things Happen I remember one disaster when I was young: there was a “general alarm” on the telephone, which was a party-line. A neighbor’s…
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While we haven’t posted a new “What’s It Like” essay in a while, the project is still simmering. We recently received a long essay covering…
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Now that we’ve mailed out the latest edition of the newsletter to MCHS members, it was time to add a few past newsletter articles to…
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