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May 2020
History Break: Okay Boomer!
Join us on Wednesday May 20th for our Digital History Break. At 12:00 we will post a link for everyone to join and watch our Speaker Chris Stout from Minnesota State College South East. For his Talk Boomers, X’ers, Millennial, and Generation Y. What are the issues facing young adults as they try to enter to the world today? Using information from the Pew Research Center and his own research in developmental psychology, Chris gives a sympathetic portrait of the…
Find out more »June 2020
History Break: Story Maps
Story Maps are a new and fun way to share the story of local history. GIS Systems Specialist Leanne Knott will share two of her recently published history Story Maps: ‘They Came for Land: Settlement Patterns in Goodhue County’ and ‘Red Wing Historic Neighborhoods’. These web applications utilize maps, images, and narrative to take viewers through a visual history spanning from antiquity to our modern day. Our presenter Leanne Knott, GISP, has been working as a GIS Systems Specialist for…
Find out more »July 2020
Free Family Fun Day: Not So Social Ice Cream Social
Join the Goodhue County Historical Society for our annual Ice cream social. Unlike previous years where you were free to move around the Museum. We will be serving ice cream and handing out an activity packet and practicing social distancing in our parking lot at the History Center. Free Family Fun Day is sponsored in part by Xcel Energy
Find out more »History Break: A Trip to Norway
Spend your lunch hour digitally at the Goodhue County History Center for our monthly free lunchtime program! All programs begin at noon. This month we have Ann Romo Talking about her 22 day trip to Norway exploring all Norway had to offer. Follow the link provide to join the zoom meeting.
Find out more »August 2020
Free Family Fun Day: A Day at the Fair
Join us at the Goodhue County Historical Society for Free Family Fun Day. Enjoy our Fair themed free family Fun Day this month. We will be handing out an activity packet and a fair themed treat. We will also be practicing social distancing outside of the History Center in the parking lot this month.
Find out more »History Break: Ted Hall a native Red Wing Author
A talented and respected writer, Ted Hall was born in Red Wing. He had a knack for telling a story in a very Samuel Clemens kind of fashion and used his gift of writing to describe his formative years. In his later years, he published “Growing with the Grass”. A collection of stories from his youth that describe life in Red Wing area and specifically Old Frontenac. Ted was a professional writer and his list of accomplishments include writing for…
Find out more »September 2020
Free Family Fun Day: Back to School
Join us for another socially distanced Free Family Fun Day outside of the history center. Take a step back in time a learn what it was like for students in a one room school house . Test your knowledge and see if you are smarter then a 1940s 8th grader. All so see some of the various task students had to do everyday while at school Free Family Fun Day Will be held outside of the History Center. There will…
Find out more »CANCELED- Stories at GCHS: Hardest Lot of Men
Join Speaker Joseph Fitzharris Professor Emeritus of St. Thomas University. Dr. Fitzharris specialized in the U.S. Civil War, and economic and Military History. He is the Author of the “Hardest Lot of Men: The 3rd Minnesota Infantry, Broken and Forged Anew” During the evening he will be focusing on Mattson and his “Scandinavian Guard” company D and Gurnee’s Company E . Both Local to Goodhue County, he will share some of their adventures and misadventures with a few reading selections…
Find out more »October 2020
Free Family Fun Day: A Haunting at the Museum
Join us for for a hauntingly good time at the history center for our Halloween themed Free Family Fun Day. There will be some sweet treats and fun activities for families. Also bring your costumes for even more fun. We will be having our activities outside and folloowing Minnesota Department of Health COVID-19 Guidelines , including the wearing of cloth masks and maintaining a 6-foot distance from non-family members. Free Family Fun Day is sponsored in part by Xcel Energy
Find out more »Walk into Local History: Lutheran Ladies Seminary
This presentation will take place in the Goodhue County History Center's conference room with social distancing in place for all participants. There is a max of 10 participants for each session. We will also be offering this program digitally over the video conference app Zoom. Explore the former grounds of the Lutheran Ladies Seminary, a center of music, culture, and higher education in Red Wing until it burned down in 1920. The program includes a 60-minute presentation at the Goodhue…
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