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 HopCollections Carousel – Royalton Schools
This photo postcard shows a view of three school buildings in Royalton, Minnesota. The oldest building is in the front and was built in 1890…
View More Collections Carousel – Royalton SchoolsCollections Carousel – Z. N. Barnes, Travelling Photographer
This recently identified photograph by local businessman, Z. N. Barnes (1859-1943), shows a view of a picturesque bridge over the Lester River in Lester Park…
View More Collections Carousel – Z. N. Barnes, Travelling PhotographerTo 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 AvailableLakeland Public TV Features Save the Pierz Journals
On December 7, Becky Parker of Lakeland Public Television visited the museum in order to interview Ann Marie and I about our Save the Pierz…
View More Lakeland Public TV Features Save the Pierz JournalsTo 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 ChurchMuseum Closed Dec. 23-26
In observance of the Christmas holiday, The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum will be closed Friday, December 23 through Monday, December 26, 2011. (Normally we’re…
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