To be a Member of the Genealogy Society
A new organization was being formed and started in Morrison County. I attended the charter meeting and wasn’t even sure what genealogy was or how…
View More To be a Member of the Genealogy SocietySave the Pierz Journals
The Morrison County Historical Society has a collection of bound volumes of the Pierz Journal newspaper that are so fragile they can no longer be…
View More Save the Pierz JournalsTo be a Census Taker in 2010
I had seen the advertisement for helping to take the census in the newspaper. I was working part-time then, but thought this sounded like a…
View More To be a Census Taker in 2010To Be a Packer Fan
Although I am not a big sports fan, I have followed the Green Bay Packers since childhood. I lived in Ohio from birth until after…
View More To Be a Packer FanPreserving the Trees at Pine Grove Park
The demolition of the Dewey-Radke House in Little Falls, MN, this summer brought another historic site into sharp focus for those of us at the…
View More Preserving the Trees at Pine Grove ParkTo Move to Morrison County
The following What’s It Like essay was left on our Getting Started page as a comment. It seems more appropriate to add it to the…
View More To Move to Morrison CountySelling to Lutherans
Lutherans in Morrison County. There are more cattle than Lutherans in Morrison. There were 33,000 of us, but close to 50,000 of them. I came…
View More Selling to LutheransMorrison County Murder Index Now Online
One of the most popular boxes of research we have in the Morrison County Historical Society collections contains folders for victims of murder who have…
View More Morrison County Murder Index Now OnlineTo Make Ashtrays
When I was a kid, my classmates and I were encouraged to make ashtrays during the pottery unit in art class. Teachers wanted us to…
View More To Make AshtraysThe What’s It Like Project Is Not Dead
The “What’s It Like [ … ] in Morrison County?” project is not dead. Seriously. Even if you haven’t heard much about it lately. Even…
View More The What’s It Like Project Is Not Dead