Who Gets Grandma’s Yellow Pie Plate?
The Morrison County Genealogical Society is hosting a free workshop to help families in making decisions regarding family possessions. Presented by the University of Minnesota…
Curatorial Envy
You would think that a museum curator would want to avoid museums while on vacation but that hasn’t been the case with me! During a…
View More Curatorial EnvyThe Stuff I Find
I’ve been cleaning up my computer files at the museum this morning, mostly just moving things into the appropriate folders. There were quite a few…
View More The Stuff I FindRoad Work Finished (Mostly)
If you’ve tried to get to the Weyerhaeuser Museum on Lindbergh Drive over the last month or so, you know that the road was impassable…
View More Road Work Finished (Mostly)The Richardson Collection Expands
While working on the Nathan Richardson book (“A Big Hearted Paleface Man“), our Richardson collection expanded exponentially. We already had a nice number of artifacts…
View More The Richardson Collection ExpandsYou Eat That?!?
Since 2003 we’ve been collecting recipes . . . well, they’re not exactly recipes. We like to call them non-recipe recipes. These are the throw-together…
View More You Eat That?!?You Like Photos
I was just looking at the viewing statistics for our website and what I found was quite interesting. Our users (that’d be you) regularly visit…
View More You Like PhotosBook Care Workshop
Once more, MCHS museum staff have been galavanting across the nation in an attempt to improve our minds and, hopefully, learn something that will help…
View More Book Care WorkshopCamp Ripley Book Available
We’ve just received copies of Sandra Alcott Erickson’s new book, Camp Ripley: 1930-1960, to sell here at the Weyerhaeuser Museum. The book is softcover and…
View More Camp Ripley Book AvailableComments
If you have attempted to leave comments on “Skimming the Cream” (like on that Lincoln School photo identification post), you may have been frustrated by…
View More CommentsIt's Not Too Late to Make Your Reservation
It’s not too late to make your reservation for the Historical Society’s program and annual dinner meeting this coming Sunday, October 7. The theme of…
View More It's Not Too Late to Make Your Reservation