Todd County Historical Society Waffle Feed
News! We’ve got news! And lots of it. I have at least seven topics for blog posts that need to be posted in short order…
View More Todd County Historical Society Waffle FeedCollections Carousel – Lin Club Matchbook, circa 1975
In 1963, Stanley and Estelline Krocak opened the Lin Club near Fish Trap Lake in Lincoln, Minnesota. The Krocak’s owned and operated a bar in…
View More Collections Carousel – Lin Club Matchbook, circa 1975August Enews Has Been Sent
We love our Monkey Mail! That’s what we call our MailChimp email newsletter service. Once a month, at the beginning of the month, we send…
View More August Enews Has Been SentScam Award
This morning I opened our inbox to find a rather official looking email from the Board of Review, letting us know that the Weyerhaeuser Museum…
View More Scam AwardFriends of Dewey Radke Website
The Friends of Dewey Radke House organization has created a new website to announce its activities. It is at http://fdrh.wordpress.com/. I will add this link…
View More Friends of Dewey Radke WebsiteGov. Tim Pawlenty’s Great-Grandmother’s Pickle Recipe
A local group of Red Hat Society ladies paid a visit to the museum this morning. Upon seeing our small display of pickle recipes, one…
View More Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s Great-Grandmother’s Pickle RecipeGenealogy Information
Several times this month something has happened while I was helping researchers, and while talking with Ann Marie this morning about it, she thought I…
View More Genealogy InformationBig Ideas for Small Museums Coming Soon
Small museums often don’t have time to root around for resources that will help them in their work. The Small Museums Committee of the American…
View More Big Ideas for Small Museums Coming SoonAtlas of Historical County Boundaries
Another online resource has come to our attention, this one via the Minnesota Historical Society’s Local History News e-newsletter. The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries…
View More Atlas of Historical County BoundariesNewspaper Research Tip
I’ve been researching the construction of the Highway 10/371 bypass around Little Falls, patiently flipping through each issue of the Little Falls Daily Transcript between…
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