hiSTORY hangout: Schools in Nicollet County
Virtual MNJoin NCHS staff and volunteers for a virtual history hangout. Each month we’ll talk about the people, places, events, and more from Nicollet County’s history.
Join NCHS staff and volunteers for a virtual history hangout. Each month we’ll talk about the people, places, events, and more from Nicollet County’s history.
Do I need a rain garden? How do they even work? Get your feet wet in this class designed to start you on the path to a native garden that reduces water pollution and supports pollinators! Genevieve Brand from Seed to Site will share her knowledge of rain garden design, installation, and resources that can help you along the way. This is a virtual event with the potential for a field day on a later date.
Learn about Teddy Roosevelt's early life as a child, from his days as a Deputy Sherrif, to charging up San Juan Hill.
This is the story of one buttermaker, immigrant farmers to Nicollet County, and the prize at the 1900 Paris World's Fair for the world's best butter. NCHS members are welcome to join us for this program.
The program will include everything from fashion, prohibition and flappers, and the politics of the time, etc.
We will cover the Language of Flowers, Fan Signals and Flirtation, and Marriage customs of the turn of the century. It was important for every young lady to be aware of these concealed messages, and every young man should know how to interpret them.
Learn about the "ten agents of deterioration" and how to preserve and protect the things you value. There will be a presentation followed by an open question and answer period. Recommendations for how to find additional resources will be provided at the event.
Join us as agricultural historian T.J. Malaskee delves into the long-forgotten history of America's first fraternity of farmers, the Grange. The Grange was a radical post-Civil War Era movement that pushed for progressive measures to heal the nation through agriculture, education, equality, and social interaction as the United States saw growing tension between western rural farmers and eastern urban industrialists.