Local History News

Local History News: November 16, 2022

Written by Joe Hoover | Nov 16, 2022 5:04:00 PM

Field Note

Staff from the Native American Initiatives and Heritage Preservation, Planning, and Outreach departments of the Minnesota Historical Society were out at White Earth Nation in Mahnomen, MN for a family history "Preserving Photographs Event & Open House." The event showcased preservation methods for photos and digitization how-to's for your own photographs which included a DIY budget album/scrapbook scanner and copy stand.


 

Heritage Preservation Grants

Grants Office Webinar: First Steps Towards a Grant
November 17 - Online: 2 to 3 pm (CT): In this webinar, you will learn what you need to do to register for a grants portal login, how to apply, what the grant programs offer, what the programs can fund, and which resources are available for applicants. If you have never applied for a grant before or would like to hear about the basic process again, this webinar is for you. Presented by Carolyn Veeser-Egbide, Grants Manager. Learn more »

Small Grant Deadline
The next small grant deadline (requests of $10,000 or less) for the MHCHG program is Friday, January 13, 2023.

 

From the Blog

This week's blog post is from Museum Notes. Have a blog? Let us know!

Play Conditions: A Framework
Play Conditions are a bit like Robinsyard. Robinsyard, you ask?

When my nephew Matthew was 4 years old, he carried a small rolled-up piece of paper tucked into a yarn belt that he liked to wear. I asked him what had he drawn on the paper and he replied, “Robinsyard.” I knew he had a friend name Robin, but I didn’t know what a Syard was. So, I asked, “What’s a Syard?” Matthew replied, “I don’t know but Robin has one.” After some mulling about what a Syard might be, I guessed that it was Robin’s Yard. The precise meaning is not so critical. What is important is that:

Play conditions are like Robinsyard: It’s hard to explain what they are, but we have them. And play conditions have meaning in children’s lives. Continue Reading »


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From the Tube

This week's video is from the Ramsey County Historical Society, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library. Have a video channel or podcast? Let us know!

 

History Revealed: "Working to Assimilate: Irish Immigrants and Employment"
We’ve heard the expression “Irish Need Not Apply,” but what was it like in the mid- and late-19th century when Irish immigrants came to Minnesota/Ramsey County to seek employment? Were the Irish able to transfer the skills from their homeland to work opportunities here? This program captures Irish immigrant employment – its challenges and opportunities – at a time when the Irish were trying to gain a foothold in a new land. Watch Video »

 

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Image used with permission from the Hennepin County Library.


Event: Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers - A Reading and Q&A with the Authors
November 16 - St. Paul: 4:45 to 6:15 pm. Macalester Native and Indigenous (MNI) initiative - In honor of Native American Heritage Month, community members are invited to listen to and learn from Macalester alum Walter (“Super”) LaBatte '70 and his niece, Teresa Peterson, about Dakota history and culture in Minnesota. Through five generations at Pejuhutazizi (the place where they dig the yellow medicine, now also known as the Upper Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota), Teresa Peterson's family members have listened to and told stories: stories of events, migrations, and relationships in Dakota history, and stories that carry Dakota culture through tales, legends, and myths. Complimentary copies of the book will be provided to the first 150 people who register in advance. Location: Hill Ballroom, Kagin Commons, Macalester College. Cost: No cost. Learn more »

Presentation: Marian Anderson: The Life, Art, and Legacy
November 16 - Mankato/Online: Blue Earth County Historical Society - This program will look through Marian’s life and the legacy she leaves behind with her art. This program is occurring in conjunction with the release of the book, "The Art of Marian Anderson." Cost: No cost members/$7 nonmembers. Pre-registration is required to attend virtually. Learn more »

Presentation: Re-enactor and an Impressionist Portrays General George Meade
November 17 - Northfield: 7 to 9 pm. Cannon Valley Civil War Roundtable - Gary Carlberg will portray Union General George Meade. General George Meade defeated Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia in the Battle of Gettysburg (1863) but he was widely criticized for allowing Lee's weakened force to escape into Virginia. Cost: No cost. For more information call 507-459-3140. Location: Northfield Township Hall.

Presentation: Remembrances of a Vietnam POW
November 17 - Bemidji: 12 pm. Beltrami County History Center - Veteran and former POW Gary Guggenberger will be sharing his story and taking questions about his experiences and the impacts of his service and internment. He was deployed to Southeast Asia in July of '68 as a truck driver with the 352nd Transportation Company. When a vehicle convoy he was in was ambushed, he was captured and taken as a Prisoner of War, spending 1,491 days in captivity. This program is occurring in conjunction with the exhibit, Veterans of Beltrami County. Cost: No cost. Learn more »

Gingerbread Architecture: The Sweet Elements of Design
November 19 - Little Falls: 11 am to 12 pm. Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum (Morrison County Historical Society) & Rethos - Learn the basics of building construction and architectural design at this all-ages, family-friendly, kid-oriented workshop. Our instructor will show you the inner workings of construction and design and teach about basic building elements during this hands-on class. Learn more »

Presentation: Populism! Peril or Promise in U.S. Politics
November 19 - Online: 6 pm (CT). Shelter & Solidarity - Public Historian and author Michael Lansing will take a deep dive into the history, myths, practices, and legacies of popular politics and “small-d” democracy in the United States. The populist tradition is a significant, controversial, and often misunderstood strain of U.S. history. Lansing is an associate professor of history at Augsburg University in Minneapolis. Cost: No cost. Learn more »

Exhibit: Owls in Outer Space
November 21 through January 1, 2023 - Winona: Winona County History Center - On exhibit are the contest winners of the International Owl Center coloring contest. The 2022 contest received 2,810 entries from 39 countries and 24 U.S. states. Owls in outer space is a theme from children all over the world, year after year. This is the first time these pieces have been exhibited as a themed collection. Cost: No cost. For more information call 507-454-2723 ext. 3.

 

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Highlighted Museum: Lanesboro Historical Museum
. Operated by the Lanesboro Historical Society, Lanesboro, MN. 
Photograph by Lanesboro Arts, distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 license.


Seventh Generation Model: Collaboration Between the Adirondack History Museum and OurStoryBridge, Connecting the Past and the Present
November 18 - Online: 11 am to 12:30 pm (CT). Museum Association of New York - Hear how a rural library developed an online audio local history project to share the past and present of their town, then collaborated with a local museum to bring the museum’s exhibits to life through the use of the stories collected. Learn how to bring their free model to your museum. Cost: No cost. Learn more »

Bite-Sized Learning: "Where Have All the Volunteers Gone?" Post-Pandemic Volunteer Recruitment
November 29 - Online: 12 to 1 pm (CT). Minnesota Council of Nonprofits - Explore emerging trends in volunteer recruitment and potential new avenues to raise the profile of your organization's volunteering in the community. Cost: No cost. Learn more »

Metadata for Digital Preservation
November 29 - Online: 1 to 3 pm (CT). Northeast Document Conservation Center - This webinar serves as a starting point for understanding the kinds of information you will want to gather to support digital preservation, using current guidelines, standards, and models in the field to identify core information required to steward digital objects over time. Learn more »

National Foundations
December 1 - Online: 9 am to 12 pm (CT). Minnesota Council of Nonprofits - An annual look at hundreds of funding sources outside of Minnesota that fund Minnesota nonprofits. Cost: $89 members/$129 nonmembers. Learn more »

Call for Proposals
January 6, 2023 - (Deadline): Midwestern History Conference - The call for proposals is open for “Many Histories, One Midwest?” in Grand Rapids, MI, May 18-19, 2023. Learn more »

Online Course: Developing Exhibitions: Design
January 9 through March 5, 2023 - Online class: American Association for State and Local History - This is an online course about how to design exhibitions. Participants will design an actual exhibit. Participants will decide what their exhibit will be about and why, identify its storyline ideas and organizing concepts, and decide on its look and feel. Cost: $215 AASLH members/$315 nonmembers. Learn more »

2023 Conference - Curating a Culture of Care
February 20 to 22, 2023 - Wilmington, DE: Small Museum Association - This year's theme is about finding a work-life balance between caring for the cultural and historic resources that our institutions are entrusted with and serving our communities. How do leaders at small museums empower their employees to find time for guilt-free self-care? Learn more »

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Fund Your Mission

Cultural and Community Resilience Grants
January 12, 2023 - (Deadline): National Endowment for the Humanities - This program supports community-based efforts to mitigate climate change and COVID-19 pandemic impacts, safeguard cultural resources, and foster cultural resilience through identifying, documenting, and/or collecting cultural heritage and community experience. Learn more »

Preservation Assistance Grant for Smaller Institutions
January 12, 2023 - (Deadline): National Endowment for the Humanities - These grants help small and mid-sized institutions — such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities — improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections. Learn more »

Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
January 12, 2023 - (Deadline): National Endowment for the Humanities - This grant program helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures that mitigate deterioration, prolong the useful life of collections, and support institutional resilience: the ability to anticipate and respond to disasters resulting from natural or human activity. Learn more »

Grants Available for Newspaper Preservation
January 12, 2023 - (Deadline): National Endowment for the Humanities - The National Digital Newspaper Program's purpose is to create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963, from all states and U.S. jurisdictions. Funds may also be used for dissemination activities that engage the wider public in exploring the digitized content. Learn more »


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News

State Historic Preservation Review Board Vacancies
Minnesota SHPO anticipates having several planned vacancies on the State Historic Preservation Review Board beginning 2023. If you have an interest in these positions, please complete an application on the Secretary of State website. Learn more »

Field Salary Survey
We’ve teamed up with the Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums to conduct a salary survey of the local history community. Please complete the survey by November 16. There should only be one submission per organization and it will take about 15 minutes to complete.
Identifying information will be kept confidential. We intend to share a report on our findings in January 2023. Take survey »

MALHM Conference Session Proposals
From first-timers to seasoned pros, people from across the state are sharing their experience and knowledge at the Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums' annual history conference. Sessions will take place on Wednesday, April 26 & Thursday, April 27, 2023.

Submit proposals by Wednesday, November 16 through the online form. All you need to know now is the basics of what you’d like to cover and any additional presenters you may include. Contact Gibson Stanton, Alliance Coordinator, by email or (612) 500-7460 if you have any questions, would like to discuss your idea, or need an extension.

Museum Store Sunday
November 27, 2022 is Museum Store Sunday! This is an annual shopping event supporting cultural institutions and their stores. This year, more than 1,800 museum stores representing all 50 states and the District of Columbia, 24 countries and five continents will celebrate Museum Store Sunday and offer unique gifts—with all purchases supporting their parent institution and the craftspeople and entrepreneurial businesses who provide many of the gifts found in museum stores. Learn more »

Lasting COVID impacts: New MN Nonprofit Data
The sixth Minnesota Nonprofit COVID-19 Impact Report is out from the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits with responses from 283 Minnesota organizations collected July-August, 2022. Download the full report on MCN's website »

Nobles County Heritage Center Celebrates Grand Opening
Nobles County Minnesota Historical Society celebrated the grand opening of the Nobles County Heritage Center in the historic Worthington Armory which just happened to be celebrating its 100-Year anniversary. The six-day event saw a series of programming and entertainment.

While the gala served as the final event in a week-long series of opening festivities, executive director Beth Rickers said there are still finishing touches to be done. The Historical Society continues to have a matching donation program in place, including the opportunity to buy a key for $200, which will go toward funding for exhibits, renovations, and more. Learn more »


 

Volunteer Action Shot
Legacy of the Lakes Museum, Alexandria, MN, relies on its volunteers to help get them to get ready for closing down for the winter. They got all the boats moved and covered, brought in outdoor furniture, cleaned, and installed new hoists. The volunteers will be back May 19, 2023 when the museum reopens. Learn more »


 


 

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