Christmas Cards & Greetngs
For our temporary exhibit, to complement the Nutcracker Suite, the museum is displaying over 60 Christmas/winter-themed cards and greetings. They range from traditional to silly…
Booster Brochures on Minnesota Reflections
MCHS has gone through another round of digitization through the Minnesota Digital Library. We chose four booklets to have digitized. All were related to boosterism…
View More Booster Brochures on Minnesota ReflectionsMorrison County Influentials: 111-115
Last week’s Influentials: 106. Florence Williams (1863-1945). Library Founder. Florence E. (Bennett) Williams was born in New York. In 1889 she married Milton M. Williams…
View More Morrison County Influentials: 111-115There's an Art to Salvage
A week ago Friday (October 4), Ann Marie and I attended a conference at the Stearns History Museum in St. Cloud, MN. The conference was…
View More There's an Art to SalvageMorrison County Influentials: 106-110
Now that we are past 100 on our list of Morrison County Influentials, let me tell you, it’s getting difficult to pick people. We keep…
View More Morrison County Influentials: 106-110Morrison County Influentials: 101-105
96. John D. Logan (1838-1907). Businessman. John D. Logan was born in Pennsylvania. Logan moved to Northfield, Minnesota, in 1855 and six years later enlisted…
View More Morrison County Influentials: 101-105Online Resources
The internet is a genealogist’s paradise. There are so many resources available online that it is difficult to keep track of them all. Our helpful…
View More Online ResourcesCommenting on Skimming the Cream
Leave it to Mary, our on-site technical guru, to figure out how to get the “Comments” to work again on Skimming the Cream. If you…
View More Commenting on Skimming the CreamRedecorating & Tweaking
Surprise! We’ve redecorated our blog again. Well, really, we’ve just selected a new theme. We had a comment from a researcher about needing more photos,…
View More Redecorating & TweakingOctober Map of the Month
September has suddenly turned into October and it’s time for a new Map of the Month. October’s map is a portion of a hand-drawn plat…
View More October Map of the MonthMorrison County Influentials: 96-100
Names introduced last week: 91. Axel Borgstrom (1888-1995) – Axel Borgstrom was a defining citizen of the community of Upsala. He was born in Sweden…
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