Gov. 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…

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Big 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…

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Atlas 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…

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Newspaper 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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Collections Carousel – The Odd Shop Bag

The Odd Shop got its start in 1929 when Ida Caroline McCauley and her niece, Clara (McCauley) Guerin, organized the Guerin McCauley Company.  The company…

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Legacy Funding Input Meetings

In November 2008 the citizens of Minnesota voted to pass the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment as part of the Minnesota Constitution. The Legacy…

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