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SUMMARY:RCHS Author at St. Nikolaustag Event December 10!
DESCRIPTION:Join Terry Swanson—author of RCHS book Grasshoppers in My Bed—at the Maplewood Area Historical Society’s St. Nikolaustag event from noon to 5PM on December 10 at 2170 County Road D East. \nBring children and gather ’round for a story! As you browse the old-fashioned traditions at the Heritage Farm\, visit Terry for “Lillie’s Christmas-Birthday Wish\,” the imagined prequel to Grasshoppers in My Bed. Kids of all ages may help Terry in trimming Lillie’s tree and make an orange slice ornament to take home. (She’ll sign a book for you\, too.) Story times: 12:30\, 1:30\, 2:30\, 3:30\, 4:30.   \nHosted by the Maplewood Area Historical Society\, the day features tours of the historic house and farm\, a mini-Christmas market\, hayrides\, games and live music\, hot drinks and food trucks\, a Christmas Tree Forest… and Saint Nikolaus himself.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/rchs-author-at-st-nikolaustag-event-december-10/
LOCATION:Maplewood Area Historical Society’s Bruentrup Farm\, 2170 County Road D East\, Maplewood\, MN\, 55109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event
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SUMMARY:Fridays at Gibbs Farm: In Search of Lillie Belle Gibbs
DESCRIPTION:Gibbs Farm hosts a special program inspired by the new book release\, Grasshoppers in My Bed.\n\nJoin Terry Swanson\, historian and author of Grasshoppers in My Bed\, as she introduces Lillie at age 11 in 1877\, through 11 Grasshoppers in My Bed-inspired topics\, for 11 minutes each\, all right here on the farm where she grew up. You’ll love getting to know Lillie! Sessions are scheduled every 15 minutes beginning at 12:15.  Join in for a session or two\, or as many as you like!\n\n​Artist’s activity: Join Peggy Stern\, illustrator of Grasshoppers in My Bed\, for a 3-step journal making adventure\, based on illustrations from the book: Step 1 “Search & Draw” – a “treasure hunt” of the site\, Step 2 “Fold  & Create” – make an 8-page booklet to illustrate\, Step 3 “Dip & Write” – use a dip pen like Lillie Belle used to do. This activity is on-going throughout the day and can done at own pace.  Steps can be done individually or in order. Please allow about an hour for all 3 steps.\n\nTo order or get more information Grasshoppers in My Bed\, see the book page and order form.\n\nThe site is open from 12:00pm to 3:00pm.  Allow time to enjoy the outdoor setting and visit the gift shop! Feel free to bring a picnic lunch.  \n\n\nNote: These are the only programs/tours scheduled for this day.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/fridays-at-gibbs-farm-grasshoppers-in-my-bed-program-4/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Book Event,Children's Events,Family Events,Gibbs Events,Hands-On/Craft Event,Publishing
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220812T150000
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CREATED:20220625T165808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220625T165808Z
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SUMMARY:Fridays at Gibbs Farm: In Search of Lillie Belle Gibbs
DESCRIPTION:Gibbs Farm hosts a special program inspired by the new book release\, Grasshoppers in My Bed.\n\nJoin Terry Swanson\, historian and author of Grasshoppers in My Bed\, as she introduces Lillie at age 11 in 1877\, through 11 Grasshoppers in My Bed-inspired topics\, for 11 minutes each\, all right here on the farm where she grew up. You’ll love getting to know Lillie! Sessions are scheduled every 15 minutes beginning at 12:15.  Join in for a session or two\, or as many as you like!\n\n​Artist’s activity: Join Peggy Stern\, illustrator of Grasshoppers in My Bed\, for a 3-step journal making adventure\, based on illustrations from the book: Step 1 “Search & Draw” – a “treasure hunt” of the site\, Step 2 “Fold  & Create” – make an 8-page booklet to illustrate\, Step 3 “Dip & Write” – use a dip pen like Lillie Belle used to do. This activity is on-going throughout the day and can done at own pace.  Steps can be done individually or in order. Please allow about an hour for all 3 steps.\n\nTo order or get more information Grasshoppers in My Bed\, see the book page and order form.\n\nThe site is open from 12:00pm to 3:00pm.  Allow time to enjoy the outdoor setting and visit the gift shop! Feel free to bring a picnic lunch.  \n\n\nNote: These are the only programs/tours scheduled for this day.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/fridays-at-gibbs-farm-grasshoppers-in-my-bed-program-3/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Book Event,Children's Events,Family Events,Gibbs Events,Hands-On/Craft Event,Publishing,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220804T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220804T203000
DTSTAMP:20260414T235530
CREATED:20220224T220202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T220202Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Grasshoppers in My Bed
DESCRIPTION:Grasshoppers in My Bed: Lillie Belle Gibbs\, Minnesota Farm Girl\, 1877\nTerry Swanson and Peggy Stern\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, August 4\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nJoin author Terry Swanson and illustrator Peggy Stern as they present their new historical fiction book\, Grasshoppers in My Bed\, based on the journal of 11-year- old Lillie Gibbs of Gibbs Farm. \nIt is 1876—Christmas day—which just happens to be the eleventh birthday of Lillie Belle Gibbs. Her mother and father present her with a new journal. Now she must decide how to fill the pages. \nGrasshoppers in her bed\, a smudge pot to keep the mosquitos at bay\, the one-room schoolhouse across the road\, popping corn in the Victorian parlor\, hired hands who work on the farm half the year\, and her best friend\, Minnesota Mae Hendrickson\, all make appearances. \nUsing clues Lillie left behind through writings as a child and an adult\, this important work of historical fiction is filled with stories and illustrations detailing a year in the ordinary life of a real Minnesota farm girl from the 1870s. \nGrasshoppers in My Bed: Lillie Belle Gibbs – A Minnesota Farm Girl – 1877 is available through the Ramsey County Historical Society or other local vendors.\nRCHS Member price: $18.00\nRegular Price: $20.00\nTo order\, see the form here. \nFor more information on the book\, see the post here. \nTerry Swanson is a Minnesota historian who has specialized in public history in the Twin Cities area since 1990. She was director of collections\, education\, and programs at the American Swedish Institute from 1997 to 2005. She worked as program and site manager at Ramsey County Historical Society’s (RCHS) Gibbs Farm from 2007 to 2016. Since retiring in 2017\, she has worked as a historical consultant and with Investigate MN\, a partnership between local libraries and museums (including RCHS) designed for school-age children to boost academic achievement and help close the achievement gap. \nPeggy Stern is a former site interpreter at Gibbs Farm where\, under the direction of the then-program and site manager Terry Swanson\, she handcrafted murals and signage to enhance the venue. Their working relationship eventually developed into a collaboration for this book. Stern holds a degree in fine art from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls and has continued her art education at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) and at both Minnetonka and White Bear Centers for the Arts. In addition to illustration\, her main areas of interest are drawing\, painting\, and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited at various Twin Cities locations including\, most recently\, the Northern Lights Exhibition. \nFeatured image by Peggy Stern.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-grasshoppers-in-my-bed/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event,Publishing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220729T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220729T150000
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SUMMARY:Fridays at Gibbs Farm: In Search of Lillie Belle Gibbs
DESCRIPTION:Gibbs Farm hosts a special program inspired by the new book release\, Grasshoppers in My Bed. \nJoin Terry Swanson\, historian and author of Grasshoppers in My Bed\, as she introduces Lillie Gibbs at age 11 in 1877\, through special tours right here on the farm where she grew up. You’re going to love getting to know Lillie! \nPeggy Stern\, artist and illustrator of Grasshoppers in My Bed joins in on the search for Lillie through craft activities inspired by illustrations in the book. \nSnacks\, drawing for a free book\, and author/illustrator book signing are included. \n\nTo order or get more information Grasshoppers in My Bed\, see the book page and order form.\n\nThe site is open from 12:00pm to 3:00pm.  Allow time to enjoy the outdoor setting and visit the gift shop! Feel free to bring a picnic lunch.  \n\n\nNote: These are the only programs/tours scheduled for this day.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/fridays-at-gibbs-farm-grasshoppers-in-my-bed-program-2/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Book Event,Children's Events,Family Events,Gibbs Events,Hands-On/Craft Event,Publishing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220721T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220721T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: The Bell Museum
DESCRIPTION:A Natural Curiosity: The Story of the Bell Museum.\nDon Luce\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, July 21\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \n\nSince its humble start in 1872 as a one-room cabinet of curiosities\, the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum of natural history has become one of the state’s most important cultural institutions. From its conception as part of a state-mandated geological and natural history survey\, to its most recent ventures into technology\, environmental science\, and DNA sequencing\, the Bell Museum has informed\, explained\, and expanded our relationship to the natural world. Drawing on a wealth of materials unearthed during the museum’s recent move\, the gorgeously illustrated book\, A Natural Curiosity\, chronicles the remarkable discoveries and personalities that have made the Bell Museum what it is today. \n\nTo order the book\, see University of Minnesota Press: A Natural Curiosity \nDon Luce was Bell Museum Curator of Exhibits. For more than forty years he curated most of the museum’s temporary exhibitions\, including Exploring Evolution\, The Lion’s Mane\, Wildlife Art in America\, and Audubon and the Art of Birds. He initiated the Bell’s traveling exhibitions program\, developed and expanded its natural history art collection\, and played a key role in the conception and design of the new museum’s permanent exhibit gallery\, Minnesota Journeys.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-the-bell-museum/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220714T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220714T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Daybreak Woman
DESCRIPTION:Daybreak Woman\nJane Lamm Carroll\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, July 14\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nA remarkable woman’s life spans nearly a century of peace\, invasion\, war\, exile\, return\, and astonishing change.Join us as historian Jane Lamm Carroll share her extraordinary work\, Daybreak Woman. Daybreak Woman\, also known as Jane Anderson Robertson\, was born at a trading post on the Minnesota River in 1810 and lived for ninety-two years in Minnesota\, Wisconsin\, Michigan\, Canada\, and South Dakota. The daughter of an Anglo- Canadian trader and a Scots-Dakota woman\, she witnessed seismic changes.For her first five decades\, Daybreak Woman was nurtured and respected in the multi-ethnic society that thrived for generations in the region. But in the last forty years of the nineteenth century\, this way of life was swamped and nearly annihilated as the result of Euro-American colonization and the forced exile of most Dakota and Euro-Dakota people from Minnesota after the US–Dakota War of 1862. Dakota and Euro-Dakota people struggled to reestablish their communities in the face of racial violence\, injustice\, calls for their mass extermination\, abject poverty\, disease\, starvation\, and death. Daybreak Woman and her children survived these cataclysmic events and endured to rebuild their lives as Anglo- Dakota people in an anti-Indian world.In this extraordinary biography\, historian Jane Lamm Carroll uses the life of one mixed-heritage woman and her family as a window into American society\, honoring the past’s complexity and providing insights into the present. \n\nAdvance Praise:“In this deft biography\, Jane Lamm Caroll guides us through a life rooted in the vital and expansive kinship networks that determined belonging\, opportunity\, conflict\, and resilience for Dakota and mixed-ancestry community members in nineteenth-century Mni Sota Makoce. In a journey from the height of the fur trade\, through the devastating war of 1862\, and onward to the turn of a new century\, we see the ways in which women’s labor — cultural\, spiritual\, economic\, diplomatic\, and domestic — built and rebuilt worlds of meaning that persisted despite great upheaval and change. This is a vibrant and engrossing book.”Catherine J. Denial\, author of Making Marriage: Husbands\, Wives\, and the American State in Dakota and Ojibwe Country“The research in Daybreak Woman is rich\, dense\, and inclusive\, and Jane Lamm Carroll writes a story that is highly personal and engaging. Learning about the lives of so many Dakota and Anglo-Dakota individuals and families forces readers to re-think what we thought we knew about the history of Mni Sota Makoce.”Colette Hyman\, author of Dakota Women’s Work: Creativity\, Culture\, and Exile\n\n“Daybreak Woman\, a gripping American drama\, is history made real.” CHOICE \nExcerpt in Minnesota History magazine \n\n\nJane Lamm Carroll is professor of history and women’s studies at St. Catherine University and contributing author and coeditor of Liberating Sanctuary: 100 Years of Women’s Education at the College of St. Catherine. \nAvailable November 2020 from Minnesota Historical Society \n\n$18.95 paper\, ISBN: 978-1-68134-166-8256 pages\,  6 x 9 inches\, 20 b/w photos\, notes\, index\, bibliography$9.99 e-book\, ISBN: 978-1-68134-167-5 \nMaking Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants\nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day. programs which focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-daybreak-woman/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220708T150000
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SUMMARY:Fridays at Gibbs Farm: In Search of Lillie Belle Gibbs
DESCRIPTION:Gibbs Farm hosts a special program inspired by the new book release\, Grasshoppers in My Bed.\n\nJoin Terry Swanson\, historian and author of Grasshoppers in My Bed\, as she introduces Lillie at age 11 in 1877\, through 11 Grasshoppers in My Bed-inspired topics\, for 11 minutes each\, all right here on the farm where she grew up. You’ll love getting to know Lillie! Sessions are scheduled every 15 minutes beginning at 12:15.  Join in for a session or two\, or as many as you like!\n\nPeggy Stern\, artist and illustrator of Grasshoppers in My Bed\, will conduct an ongoing journal activity in three steps. As you take an adventure into Lillie’s world\, construct a simple paper journal booklet\, go on a hunt across the Gibbs Farm site in search of objects you will draw to fill the pages\, and try your hand at writing with pen and ink like Lillie did. A book signing is scheduled at 2:45\, but Terry and Peggy are happy to sign your copy anytime during the program. \n\nTo order or get more information Grasshoppers in My Bed\, see the book page and order form.\n\nThe site is open from 12:00pm to 3:00pm.  Allow time to enjoy the outdoor setting and visit the gift shop! Feel free to bring a picnic lunch.  \n\n\nNote: These are the only programs/tours scheduled for this day.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/fridays-at-gibbs-farm-grasshoppers-in-my-bed-program/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Book Event,Children's Events,Family Events,Gibbs Events,Hands-On/Craft Event,Publishing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220609T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220609T203000
DTSTAMP:20260414T235530
CREATED:20220224T220919Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Dejsiab
DESCRIPTION:Dejsiab: From My Liver to Yours\nwith Mai Neng Vang\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, June 9\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \n“Dejsiab: From My Liver to Yours” is a one of a kind poetry book that explores colonialism\, patriarchy\, hope\, and healing through a critical Hmong womxn’s lens. Author Mai Neng Vang will share her poems and process. \n“Through the years\, I’ve come to realize that healing is not a linear process – there are no definitive steps to take before one can say they have healed from their traumas. More than this\, healing looks different for everyone\, but regardless of how we heal or how long it takes us to heal\, healing is so necessary for us to reconcile with the generations of trauma and hurt that our ancestors\, mothers\, sisters\, aunties have endured…The poems found in this book are a series of love letters: love letters to who I was\, from who I am\, for who I will become. As a reader\, you bear witness to the struggles\, the joys\, and the thoughts that I have as someone who is constantly becoming. In this way\, we\, too\, are having a heart-to-heart throughout this book. I hope that you find relevance and solace in my words and are able to draw strength and dejsiab from these pages.” – Mai Neng Vang\, Author. \nImage: Front cover illustrated by: Peevxwm Lauj
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-dejsiab/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220528T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220528T160000
DTSTAMP:20260414T235530
CREATED:20220502T200807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T200807Z
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SUMMARY:2022 Gibbs Farm Opening Day & Book Launch!
DESCRIPTION:Come visit us on our opening day and learn all about RCHS’s new publication Grasshoppers in My Bed: Lillie Belle Gibbs\, Minnesota Farm Girl\, 1877! \nGrasshoppers in my Bed author Terry Swanson and illustrator Peggy Stern will be on site at Gibbs Farm Opening Day with author talks\, activities\, and book signings scheduled in the Red Barn at 10:30 am\, 12:30\, and 2:30 pm. Also that day\, guests at Gibbs may take farmhouse and Dakota lifeways tours\, see farm animals\, and participate in a chore obstacle course and other farm demonstrations. \nAdmission is $8 adults\, $7 seniors\, $5 children over four. RCHS members are free. Pre-registration is recommended (but not required). Click here to register. \nThe new book Grasshoppers in My Bed: Lillie Belle Gibbs\, Minnesota Farm Girl\, 1877 by author Terry Swanson and illustrator Peggy Swanson is a work of historical fiction created to capture a year in the life of Jane and Heman Gibbs’ youngest daughter Lillie Belle Gibbs. The idea for the book sprouted during the first Gibbs Girl Day Camp years ago when a curious participant wondered aloud: “What was it really like to live on this farm back then?” \nBooks will be for sale at the author talk and in the Gibbs Farm giftshop for a reduced price of $16 for this event only. Regular cost is $20 and $18 for RCHS members.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/2022-gibbs-farm-opening-day/
LOCATION:Gibbs Volunteer Interest Form
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Book Event,Children's Events,Gibbs Events,Publishing,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220512T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220512T203000
DTSTAMP:20260414T235530
CREATED:20220224T212546Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Sunrise Over Wat Thamkrabok
DESCRIPTION:Sunrise Over Wat Thamkrabok\nwith Dr. Brian V. Xiong & Marlin L. Heise\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, May 12\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nWhen Thailand closed refugee camps in December 1992\, Wat Thamkrabok (called Tha Ka Bo or Vaj Loog Tsua by Hmong) became a Hmong settlement until the last wave of some 15\,000 Hmong refugees were resettled in the United States in 2004-2006. At a 2017 Wat Thamkrabok Reunion in Minnesota held at the East Side Freedom Library\, “The Past in the Present: An Exhibition and Reunion Celebration for Hmong Families from Wat Thamkrabok\,” hundreds of photos and many items left behind were displayed\, including marbles\, an armless Barbie doll\, two small wooden stools\, and a skirt later identified. \n“SUNRISE OVER WAT THAMKRABOK: A Photographic Legacy of the Last Hmong American Refugees” is a history told in photographs and stories that encompasses the experiences of Wat Thamkrabok former residents in Minnesota and across the United States. Dr. Brian V. Xiong & Marlin L. Heise will talk about the making of the book and will give insight into the conditions of crowded refugee existence and the lives of our Hmong neighbors before they came to America.  \nThis book is made possible by Minnesota Humanities Center Legacy Cultural Heritage & Identity Grant\, Hmong Archives Wat Thamkrabok Collections\, and Hmong Educational Resources Publisher. \nMarlin L. Heise began working with a high school student\, Chia Thao in May 1981\, fostering his connection with Hmong all over the world. In 1982 he lived in Ban Vinai with Chia Thao’s uncle and family. Marlin crossed the Mekong to Vientiane in early 1998 and became connected with Hmong college students that continues. After retiring\, he had the opportunity to become involved with the Hmong Archives as its chief volunteer for daily work since it became a nonprofit in February 1999. \nDr. Brian V. Xiong is a Hmong American scholar\, researcher\, and higher education professional. He is an in-demand\, highly sought-after presenter\, speaking regularly to various groups of diverse students\, faculty\, and staff on the importance of diversity\, equity\, inclusion\, access\, and equal opportunity in higher education. He has served at both\, public and private\, two-year community colleges and four-year universities. \nDr. Xiong holds a bachelor’s degree in Justice Administration and Sociology from Southwest Minnesota State University\, a master’s degree in Multicultural and Ethnic Studies from Minnesota State University-Mankato\, and a doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) from MSU-Mankato. Dr. Xiong is a former Page Scholar\, Wallin Scholar\, Cornwell Scholar\, Diversity & Equity Fellow\, Chief Diversity Officer & Affirmative Action\, and an Advisory Chief Diversity Officer for the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity. He is an active Executive Board member of numerous community services and nonprofit organizations. Dr. Xiong is the author of: \n\n A Clan of Our Own: Coming Out Experiences of Gay Hmong Men\nA New Journey: Hmong College Student Experiences\nPuag Thaum Ub: Hmoob Xeem\nMartha L. Zimmerman Paj Ntaub Collection\nSunrise Over Wat Thamkrabok\nHmong Teacher Experiences: Voices from the Field
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-sunrise-over-wat-thamkrabok/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220505T170000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: A Natural Curiosity
DESCRIPTION:A Natural Curiosity: The Story of the Bell Museum\nDon Luce\n\nThursday\, July 21\, 2022\n7:00 PM – 8:30 PM\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \n\n\nSince its humble start in 1872 as a one-room cabinet of curiosities\, the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum of natural history has become one of the state’s most important cultural institutions. From its conception as part of a state-mandated geological and natural history survey\, to its most recent ventures into technology\, environmental science\, and DNA sequencing\, the Bell Museum has informed\, explained\, and expanded our relationship to the natural world. Drawing on a wealth of materials unearthed during the museum’s recent move\, the gorgeously illustrated book\, A Natural Curiosity\, chronicles the remarkable discoveries and personalities that have made the Bell Museum what it is today. \n\nTo order the book\, see University of Minnesota Press: A Natural Curiosity \n\nDon Luce is Bell Museum Curator of Exhibits. For more than forty years he has curated most of the museum’s temporary exhibitions\, including Exploring Evolution\, The Lion’s Mane\, Wildlife Art in America\, and Audubon and the Art of Birds. He initiated the Bell’s traveling exhibitions program\, developed and expanded its natural history art collection\, and played a key role in the conception and design of the new museum’s permanent exhibit gallery\, Minnesota Journeys.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-a-natural-curiosity/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220420T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220420T203000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: A Natural Curiosity
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed Book Launch:\nA Natural Curiosity: The Story of the Bell Museum\nWith Don Luce and Barbara Coffin\, Hosted by Dr. George Weiblen\nWednesday\, April 20\, 2022\n7:00 PM – 8:30 PM\nHosted by the Bell Museum\nLive program on Zoom. Free. \nFor registration\, see Natural Curiosity Book Launch Tickets \n\n\nSince its humble start in 1872 as a one-room cabinet of curiosities\, the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum of natural history has become one of the state’s most important cultural institutions. From its conception as part of a state-mandated geological and natural history survey\, to its most recent ventures into technology\, environmental science\, and DNA sequencing\, the Bell Museum has informed\, explained\, and expanded our relationship to the natural world. Drawing on a wealth of materials unearthed during the museum’s recent move\, the gorgeously illustrated book\, A Natural Curiosity\, chronicles the remarkable discoveries and personalities that have made the Bell Museum what it is today. \nJoin us for a special evening book launch event with co-authors Barbara Coffin and Don Luce. Hosted by the Bell’s Science Director Dr. George Weiblen\, the event will feature brief presentations by the authors and a moderated discussion focused on the museum’s leadership and innovation in public education throughout its long history. \n\nTo order the book\, see University of Minnesota Press: A Natural Curiosity \n\nAbout the speakers \nDon Luce is Bell Museum Curator of Exhibits. For more than forty years he has curated most of the museum’s temporary exhibitions\, including Exploring Evolution\, The Lion’s Mane\, Wildlife Art in America\, and Audubon and the Art of Birds. He initiated the Bell’s traveling exhibitions program\, developed and expanded its natural history art collection\, and played a key role in the conception and design of the new museum’s permanent exhibit gallery\, Minnesota Journeys. \nBarbara Coffin has promoted the conservation and understanding of Minnesota’s natural world throughout her career. She is the former head of media productions and adult programs at the Bell Museum and played an important role in the design of the new museum’s exhibit galleries. She is executive producer of the Emmy Award–winning television documentary Minnesota: A History of the Land and coeditor of Minnesota’s Endangered Flora and Fauna (Minnesota\, 1988).
URL:https://rchs.com/event/book-launch-a-natural-curiosity/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220406T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Whiteness in Plain View
DESCRIPTION:Whiteness in Plain View: A History of Racial Exclusion in Minnesota\nwith author Chad Montrie\nHistory Revealed Series\nWednesday\, April 6\, 2022\n7:00 pm\nSponsored by the East Side Freedom Library and Minnesota Historical Society Press\, in partnership with the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to the book launch of Whiteness in Plain View: Racial Exclusion in Minnesota with author Chad Montrie. \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \n\nMinnesota is a paradox. Widely seen as a progressive stronghold of the Midwest\, the state also has some of the greatest racial disparities in the nation. Those disparities have their roots in Minnesota’s earliest days as a territory and in the decades that followed. From enslaved people brought to the territory by military officers to migrants traveling to the North Star State after the Civil War\, African Americans have long been present in Minnesota’s history. Yet while many came here looking to establish new lives\, they were often met with White resistance and attempts to exclude them.Whiteness in Plain View examines the ways White residents across Minnesota acted to intimidate\, control\, remove\, and keep out African Americans over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their methods ranged from anonymous threats\, vandalism\, and mob violence to restrictive housing covenants\, realtor deceit\, and mortgage discrimination\, and they were aided by local\, state\, and federal government agencies as well as openly complicit public officials. What they did was not an anomaly or aberration\, in some particular place or passing moment\, but rather common and continuous. Chapter by chapter\, the book shows that Minnesota’s overwhelming Whiteness is neither accidental nor incidental\, and that racial exclusion’s legacy is very much woven into the state’s contemporary politics\, economy\, and culture. \nProfessor Montrie will be engaged in conversation at the East Side Freedom Library by a panel of invited discussants. The ESFL team will create a hybrid format in which online audience members\, both via zoom and Facebook\, will be able to participate in the conversation.  Join us! \n \n\n\nChad Montrie is a professor in the history department at the University of Massachusetts\, Lowell. He is the author of four books\, including The Myth of Silent Spring: Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism. His article “In that Very Northern City: Recovering a Forgotten Struggle for Racial Integration in Duluth” appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of Minnesota History magazine. \n  \n\nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day\, Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants. These programs focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-whiteness-in-plain-view/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220113T203000
DTSTAMP:20260414T235530
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LAST-MODIFIED:20211110T170903Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: We Are Meant to Rise
DESCRIPTION:We Are Meant to Rise\nwith Carolyn Holbrook\, David Mura\, Suleiman Adan\, Marcie Rendon and Kevin Yang\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, January 13\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library.\nWe Are Meant to Rise is presented in partnership with More Than a Single Story and the University of Minnesota Press. \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to join us for our first History Revealed for 2022 with a panel discussion of We Are Meant to Rise as we kick off our series\, “Making Minnesota” which will explore the often untold stories\, histories and experiences of the immigrant\, African American and Indigenous communities that make up our most diverse county. \nWe are Meant to Rise (published by the University of Minnesota Press) is a brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond\, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota. These writers bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in U.S. history\, with essays and poems that vividly reflect the traumas we endured in 2020. \nArising out of Carolyn Holbrook’s work with her organization\, More Than a Single Story\, We Are Meant to Rise merges the events of today\, the past year\, and the centuries before\, in works that are powerful testaments to the intrinsic and unique value of all who make up our community\, lifting up the often overlooked voices of BIPOC writers in Minnesota. \nWe are honored to have some of these writers join us in a panel discussion about their writing and experiences. Editors Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura will be joined by authors Suleiman Adan\, Marcie Rendon and Kevin Yang\, who will share their perspectives on the events of the past year\, from the Covid pandemic to the murder of George Floyd\, to the world-wide demands for racial justice\, and how those recent experiences tie into past histories. \nWe Are Meant to Rise contains works from authors with international reputations to those newly emerging; and features people from many cultures\, including Indigenous Dakota and Anishinaabe\, African American\, Hmong\, Somali\, Afghani\, Lebanese\, Korean\, Vietnamese\, Japanese\, Puerto Rican\, Colombian\, Mexican\, transracial adoptees\, mixed race\, and LGBTQ+ perspectives. \nAs editor David Mura says in the book’s introduction\, “Diversity is our strength. Each new voice who becomes part of America is our strength. The writers in this anthology provide us with individualized portraits of who we are\, and in doing so they can help us to know each other\, our neighbors\, our fellow citizens. These writers prove we are indeed more than a single story.” \nPanelist Bios \n \nCarolyn Holbrook is founder and director of More Than a Single Story\, as well as the founder of SASE: The Write Place. She is a writer\, educator\, and an advocate for the healing power of the arts. Her essay collection Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify (Minnesota\, 2020) received a Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. She is coauthor of Dr. Josie Johnson’s memoir Hope in the Struggle (Minnesota\, 2019)\, and her essays have been published widely\, in A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota and Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota\, as well as many other publications. She was the first person of color to win the Kay Sexton Award from the Minnesota Book Awards and the Friends of the St. Paul Public Libraries for contributions to Minnesota literature\, and was a “50 over 50” honoree in 2016. \n \nDavid Mura has written ten books\, including the memoirs Turning Japanese\, a New York Times Notable Book; Where the Body Meets Memory; and four poetry collections\, After We Lost Our Way\, a National Poetry Contest winner; The Colors of Desire\, which received the Carl Sandburg Award; Angels for the Burning; The Last Incantations; and A Stranger’s Journey: Race\, Identity\, and Narrative Craft in Writing. He teaches at VONA\, a writers’ conference for writers of color\, and has worked with Alexs Pate’s Innocent Classroom\, a program designed to improve relationships between teachers and students of color. \n \nSuleiman Adan is a writer\, educator\, and grassroots organizer in the Twin Cities. He works as a program manager with Reading and Math Inc. and is also a Quran/Arabic and Islamic studies teacher at the Northwest Islamic Community Center in Plymouth\, Minnesota. He is a project manager and board chair for the Global Alliance of Muslims for Equality\, an international NGO. \n \nMarcie Rendon\, White Earth citizen. Girl Gone Missing\, Soho Press\, second in the Cash Blackbear series was nominated for the Sue Grafton Memorial Award\, 2020. Murder on the Red River\, Soho Press\, received the Pinckley Women’s Debut Crime Novel Award 2018 and was a Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist 2018. Sinister Graves\, third in the Cash Blackbear series\, will be published by Soho in 2022. Rendon has children’s books\, plays\, short stories and poetry published. Her script\, Sweet Revenge had a staged reading at the Playwright Center in partnership with the Guthrie\, 2021. Rendon received the 2020 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award\, to honor a Minnesota artist who has made significant contributions to the state’s cultural life. She curated TwinCities Public Television’s Art Is… CreativeNativeResilience 2019. Diego Vazquez and Rendon received the 2017 Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for work with incarcerated women. \n \nKevin Yang is a multimedia storyteller born and raised in the Twin Cities who finds most of his inspiration unraveling his Hmong American experience with others. He creates in the mediums of spoken word poetry and documentary filmmaking. He represented Hamline University at the College Union Poetry Slam invitational and was a New Angle Documentary Fellow at Saint Paul Network. \nTo purchase We Are Meant to Rise and other History Revealed titles\, we hope you will visit our partner\, Subtext Books at 6 West Fifth Street in downtown Saint Paul\, or check out their website at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-we-are-meant-to-rise/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211118T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Hazel Belvo
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society presents \n\nThe Spirit Tree: Hazel Belvo and the Art of Nature\nJulie L’Enfant\nNovember 18\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nIn partnership with the Roseville Library & the East Side Freedom Library\n \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nThe program is free and open to all.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \n\nHazel Belvo has been an influential artist\, art educator\, and feminist leader for more than fifty years. Her prodigious output ranges from delicate drawings to monumental paintings exploring nature\, spirituality\, and the feminine psyche. She is best known for over four hundred works on the legendary Spirit Little Cedar Tree on the North Shore of Lake Superior whose ancient\, twisted form embodies the endurance and majesty of nature. In this talk Julie L’Enfant\, author of the new book Hazel Belvo: A Matriarch of Art\, will introduce Belvo’s eventful life and the many friendships and associations in the art world that fostered the evolution of her unique expressionist vision. \nJulie L’Enfant\, former professor of art history at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul\, is the author of seven books\, including The Gag Family: German-Bohemian Arts in America (2002)\, Pioneer Modernists: Minnesota’s First Generation of Women Artists (2011)\, both winners of Minnesota Book Awards\, and Nicholas R. Brewer: His Art and Family (2018). \nTo purchase the book\, see our partner\, Subtext Books: Hazel Belvo: A Matriarch of Art by Julie L’Enfant
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-hazel-belvo/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211021T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: St Paul
DESCRIPTION:St. Paul: An Urban Biography\nBill Lindeke\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nOctober 21\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nNote new date! \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the Roseville Library and the East Side Freedom Library\n \n\nAuthor Bill Lindeke will share stories and research from his new book\, St. Paul: An Urban Biography\, a concise history of St. Paul\, featuring stories that are familiar\, surprising\, and sure to change the way you see Minnesota’s capital city. \nHow did the city of St. Paul come to be where and what it is\, and what does that show us about the city today? Bill Lindeke provides intriguing insights and helpful answers. He tells the stories of the Dakota village forced to move across the Mississippi by a treaty—and why whiskey sellers took over the site; the new community’s close ties to Fort Snelling and Winnipeg; the steamboats and railroads that created a booming city; the German immigrants who outnumbered the Irish but kept a low profile when the United States went to war; the laborers who built the domes over the state capitol and the Cathedral of St. Paul; the gangsters and bootleggers who found refuge in the city; the strong neighborhoods\, shaped by streets built on footpaths and wagon roads—until freeway construction changed so much; and the Hmong\, Mexican\, East African\, and Karen immigrants who continue to build the city’s strong traditions of small businesses. \nThis thoughtful investigation of place helps readers to understand the city’s hidden stories\, surrounding its residents in plain sight. \nBill Lindeke is an urban geographer and writer who focuses on how our environments shape our lives. He wrote MinnPost’s “Cityscapes” column from 2014 to 2017\, has written articles on local food and drink history for City Pages and the Growler\, and has taught urban geography at the University of Minnesota and Metro State University. He writes a local urban blog at Twin City Sidewalks and is a member of the Saint Paul Planning Commission. He is the author of Minneapolis–Saint Paul: Then and Now and the coauthor of Closing Time: Saloons\, Taverns\, Dives\, and Watering Holes of the Twin Cities. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-st-paul/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211016T170000
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SUMMARY:Twin Cities Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Twin Cities Book Festival 2021\nSaturday\, October 16\, 10:00 am-5:00 pm\nMinnesota State Fairgrounds \nFree admission \nJoin RCHS authors at the Fairgrounds for the Twin Cities Book Festival! We’ll have a selection of the books publiched by RCHS and some of our authors will be available for signing and discussion. RCHS will also have some great promotions! See below for the schedule of authors\, books\, and promotions. \nLink to more information: Twin Cities Book Festival at Minnesota State Fairgrounds \nSchedule of Authors & Books\n\n10:00 am: Festival begins\n11:00 am to noon: Dick Kronick and Jeanne Kosfeld\, author and illustrator of  Neighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book \n12:15 pm: Promotional giveaway drawing #1\nPurchase any Ramsey County Historical Society magazine or history book at our booth on October 6 and register for the opportunity to win your choice of a featured RCHS book AND a 1-year RCHS individual membership (includes 4 issues of the quarterly magazine Ramsey County History\, free general admission to Gibbs Farm\, 10% discounts\, and more!)\n12:30 to 1:30 pm: Jim Stolpestad\, author of Great Northern Iron: James J. Hills’s 109-Year Mining Trust and Custom House: Restoring A Saint Paul Landmark in Lowertown will have both books available.\n2:00 to 3:00 pm: Eileen McCormack\, with The Dutiful Son: Louis W. Hill Life in the Shadow of the Empire Builder \n4:45 – Promotional giveaway drawing #2\nPurchase any Ramsey County Historical Society magazine or history book at our booth on October 6 and register for the opportunity to win your choice of a featured RCHS book AND a 1-year RCHS individual membership (includes 4 issues of the quarterly magazine Ramsey County History\, free general admission to Gibbs Farm\, 10% discounts\, and more!)\n5:00 pm: Book Festival ends
URL:https://rchs.com/event/twin-cities-book-festival/
LOCATION:MInnesota State Fairgrounds\, 1265 Snelling Ave N\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210914T180000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Irvine Park Talk & Tour
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society presents \nIrvine Park Architectural History Tour\nTour of Irvine Park with Illustrator Jeanne Kosfeld and Architectural Historian Dick Kronick\nSeptember 14\, 2021\nTuesday\, 5:00-6:00 pm\n\nPlease meet at the Irvine Park gazebo at 4:45 pm\nTour begins promptly at 5:00 pm and lasts about an hour. \nRamsey County Historical Society presents an Irvine Park Architectural History Tour with Illustrator Jeanne Kosfeld and Architectural Historian Dick Kronick on Tuesday\, September 14\, 2021\, from 5:00-6:00 pm. \n\nTickets: $30.00\nRCHS members receive a 10% discount.\nPrice includes the tour and 1 copy of Neighborhood Architecture: Irvine Park\, Saint Paul – a coloring book\, which may be picked up at the start of the tour.\nRegistration required\, registrations are limited.\nTo register: Sept. 14 Irvine Park Talk & Tour Registration\n\n\nOptional Author/Illustrator Meet & Visit Dinner: \nFollowing the tour\, participants are invited to meet a short walk from the park at Waldmann Brewery & Restaurant (445 Smith Ave N\, St. Paul\, MN 55102) for an optional dinner with the author and illustrator. Dinner is NOT included in the ticket price (it’s on your own)\, but Waldmann will offer 1 complimentary beverage to all tour participants who do order dinner. This offer applies only to those who have pre-registered for the tour. \nItems of Note: \n\nLimited street parking is available within a few blocks of the park and near Waldmann Brewery & Restaurant. Be mindful NOT to park in areas marked for residents only. See Waldmann’s website under “Contact Us” for parking details and map\, or click: https://waldmannbrewery.com/contact-us-map-form-draft-with-event-link\nMasks are required to be worn throughout the event.\nBring an umbrella if the forecast calls for rain.\n\nPlease contact RCHS at events@rchs.com if concerned about the weather or to cancel your registration. There are no refunds\, but we will contact you about shipping your coloring book if you cannot attend. \nThank you to Waldmann Brewery & Restaurant for co-sponsoring this event.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-irvine-park-talk-tour/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Presentation,Publishing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210819T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210819T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: A Private Wilderness
DESCRIPTION:A Private Wilderness: The Journals of Sigurd F. Olson\nwith David Backes\n\n\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nAugust 19\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nDavid Backes will share the personal diaries of one of America’s best-loved naturalists\, revealing his difficult and inspiring path to finding his voice and becoming a writer. Written mostly during the years from 1930 to 1941\, Sigurd F. Olson’s journals describe the dreams and frustrations of an aspiring writer honing his skills\, pursuing recognition\, and facing doubt. Author of Olson’s definitive biography\, editor David Backes brings a deep knowledge of the writer to these journals\, providing critical context\, commentary\, and insights along the way.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFew writers are as renowned for their eloquence about the natural world\, its power and fragility\, as Sigurd F. Olson (1899–1982). Before he could give expression to The Singing Wilderness\, however\, he had to find his own voice. It is this struggle\, the painstaking and often simply painful process of becoming the writer and conservationist now familiar to us\, that Olson documented in the journal entries that Backes gathered. \nWritten mostly during the years from 1930 to 1941\, Olson’s journals describe the dreams and frustrations of an aspiring writer honing his skills\, pursuing recognition\, and facing doubt while following the academic career that allowed him to live and work even as it consumed so much of his time. But even as he speaks with immediacy and intensity about the conditions of his apprenticeship\, Olson can be seen developing the singular way of observing and depicting the natural world that would bring him fame—and also\, more significantly\, alert others to the urgent need to understand and protect that world. \nWhen Olson wrote\, in the spring of 1941\, “What I am afraid of now is that the world will blow up just as I am getting it organized to suit me\,” he could hardly have known how right he would prove to be. It is propitious that at our present moment\, when the world seems once more balanced on the precipice\, we have the words of Sigurd F. Olson to remind us of what matters—and of the hard work and the wonder that such a reckoning requires. \nSigurd F. Olson introduced generations of Americans to the importance of wilderness. He served as president of the Wilderness Society and the National Parks Association and as a consultant to the federal government on wilderness preservation. He earned many honors\, including the highest possible awards from the Sierra Club\, the National Wildlife Federation\, and the Izaak Walton League. The first of his many influential books was The Singing Wilderness (1956; reprint available from Minnesota). \n \nDavid Backes is author of A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson and editor of Olson’s The Meaning of Wilderness: Essential Articles and Speeches\, both from Minnesota. In 2015 he retired as professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin\, Milwaukee. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-a-private-wilderness/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event,Presentation
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210812T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210812T203000
DTSTAMP:20260414T235530
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Turning Points
DESCRIPTION:Turning Points\nwith Greg Poferl\n\n\n\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nAugust 12\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com\nOr you may watch the program live on Facebook\, on the East Side Freedom Library page. \nThe East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to our monthly “History Revealed” program featuring Greg Poferl and his memoir\, Turning Points: Never Give Up On Anyone\, Especially Yourself. \nWe are especially excited about this opportunity to provide our communities with a unique vantage point into our shared history\, while also providing an example about the value of self-reflection. Greg Poferl has been a committed and generous individual\, dedicated to fostering social justice from the workrooms of the U.S. Postal Service and the classrooms of Cretin-Derham Hall High School to protests at the School of the Americas and support for the struggles of workers and farmers in Central America. Greg has been integral to the development of the East Side Freedom Library\, from cleaning our bathrooms and thwarting squirrels and raccoons on our roof to mentoring middle and high school students in National History Day projects. \nGreg has written a memoir which provides insight into the history of St. Paul from the 1950s to the present while also providing us with a model of living a life rich with commitment\, from his family\, union\, and community\, to the world. . For a copy of Turning Points\, at $15 each\, please contact the East Side Freedom Library at 651-207-4926 or email: info@eastsidefreedomlibrary.org. \nTurning Points reflects on kids at play and growing up in St. Paul in the 1950s and 1960s\, and it moves on to stories about military service\, labor struggles and strikes\, directing youth in social justice theater projects\, peace and justice actions\, a sentence in federal prison\, teaching social studies\, and experiencing the overwhelming love of family. Please join Greg as he shares this book and his journey with us. \nFree and open to all.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-turning-points/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210722T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210722T203000
DTSTAMP:20260414T235530
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Perennial Kitchen at Gibbs Farm
DESCRIPTION:The Perennial Kitchen with Beth Dooley\nHistory Revealed & Gibbs Farm Evening Series\nThursday\, July 22\, 2021\n5:30-8:30 pm \nPurchase Tickets Here \nIn her new cookbook\, The Perennial Kitchen\, Beth Dooley shares recipes and resources that connect thoughtfully grown\, gathered\, and prepared ingredients to a healthy future—for food\, farming\, and humankind. \nJoin author Beth Dooley for light refreshments and an entertaining book talk on her new cookbook\, The Perennial Kitchen. James Beard Award–winning author Beth Dooley provides the context of food’s origins\, along with delicious recipes\, nutrition information\, and tips for smart sourcing. More than a farm-to-table cookbook\, this book expands the definition of “local food” to embrace regenerative agriculture\, the method of growing small and large crops with ecological services. Beth will share highlights of the book\, recipes and more. \nLight dinner will be supplied by Lakewinds Coop – vegetarian\, vegan\, and gluten-free choices will be available. \nReservations and tickets required\, see the Reservation Form here to order tickets – note that ticket prices include refreshments and your choice to buy a copy of The Perennial Kitchen at a special event discount! Tickets are $35.00 for the program and light dinner & beverages\, $50.00 for program\, light dinner\, beverages and a copy of The Perennial Kitchen. \nRefreshments from the Lakewinds Coop include:\n \n\nGrain Salad\nGreen Salad\nFresh Bread + Spreads\nFruit Forward Seasonal Dessert\nTicket Price Includes drinks:\nWine\, Local Beer\, Batch Mocktail\, and/or themed non-alcoholic beverages\n\nAbout The Perennial Kitchen \n\nKnowing how and where food is grown can add depth and richness to a dish\, whether a meal of slow-roasted short ribs on creamy polenta\, a steaming bowl of spicy Hmong soup\, or a triple ginger rye cake\, kissed with maple sugar\, honey\, and sorghum. Here James Beard Award–winning author Beth Dooley provides the context of food’s origins\, along with delicious recipes\, nutrition information\, and tips for smart sourcing. \nMore than a farm-to-table cookbook\, The Perennial Kitchen expands the definition of “local food” to embrace regenerative agriculture\, the method of growing small and large crops with ecological services. These farming methods\, grounded in a land ethic\, remediate the environmental damage caused by the monocropping of corn and soybeans. In this thoughtful collection the home cook will find both recipes and insights into artisan grains\, nuts\, fruits\, and vegetables that are delicious and healthy—and also help retain topsoil\, sequester carbon\, and return nutrients to the soil. Here are crops that enhance our soil\, nurture pollinators and song birds\, rebuild rural economies\, protect our water\, and grow plentifully without toxic chemicals. These ingredients are as good for the planet as they are on our plates. \nDooley explains how to stock the pantry with artisan grains\, heritage dry beans\, fresh flour\, healthy oils\, and natural sweeteners. She offers pointers on working with grass-fed beef and pastured pork and describes how to turn leftovers into tempting soups and stews. She makes the most of each season’s bounty\, from fresh garlic scape pesto to roasted root vegetable hummus. Here we learn how best to use nature’s “fast foods\,” the quick-cooking egg and ever-reliable chicken; how to work with alternative flours\, as in gingerbread with rye or focaccia with Kernza®; and how to make plant-forward\, nutritious vegan and vegetarian fare. Among other sweet pleasures\, Dooley shares the closely held secret recipe from the University of Minnesota’s student association for the best apple pie. Woven throughout the recipes is the most recent research on nutrition\, along with a guide to sources and information that cuts through the noise and confusion of today’s food labels and trends. \nBeth Dooley looks back into ingredients’ healthy beginnings and forward to the healthy future they promise. At the center of it all is the cook\, linking into the regenerative and resilient food chain with every carefully sourced\, thoughtfully prepared\, and delectable dish. \nBeth Dooley is author or coauthor of several cookbooks\, including Savoring the Seasons of the Northern Heartland\, The Northern Heartland Kitchen\, Minnesota’s Bounty\, The Birchwood Cafe Cookbook\, Savory Sweet: Simple Preserves from a Northern Kitchen\, Sweet Nature: A Cook’s Guide to Using Honey and Maple Syrup\, and The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen (Best American Cookbook\, James Beard Award\, 2018)\, all from Minnesota. In Winter’s Kitchen is her memoir about finding her place in the Midwestern food scene. She lives in Minneapolis. \nMette Nielsen’s photographs have illustrated numerous books\, newspapers\, and magazines. A talented master gardener\, she created the edible garden for the Birchwood Cafe in Minneapolis\, collaborated on The Birchwood Cafe Cookbook and Minnesota’s Bounty\, and was a coauthor of Savory Sweet and Sweet Nature. \n\n  \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-perennial-kitchen-at-gibbs-farm/
LOCATION:Gibbs Volunteer Interest Form
CATEGORIES:Adults Only Event,Book Event,Gibbs Events,History Revealed,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210710T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210710T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T235530
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SUMMARY:Begin with a Bee Book Event + Kid's Nature Investigation Tour
DESCRIPTION:Local Author Phyllis Root will be visiting Gibbs Farm with her new book Begin with a Bee all about the fascinating Rusty Patched Bumblebee!\nThis event is FREE and open to the public\, but space is limited\, so make sure to pre-register HERE or by calling the Gibbs Farm office at 651-646-8629. By pre-registering for the book event\, you also get free admission to the Gibbs Farm site. \nPhyllis Root will read from the book and share her writing and research process. This gorgeous and educational picture book is great for all ages and while everyone is welcome on the nature investigation tour it will be geared for kids 4-8. Younger children may need some help participating from their grown-up! \nAfter the reading\, meet the author\, ask a question\, and buy a copy of Begin with a Bee or Plant a Pocket of Prairie. \nPlus: \n\nJoin a kid focused 20-minute nature investigation tour offered at 11:45 and 12:15.\nChat with Master Naturalists (and Gibbs Farm Volunteers) Kathy Robbins and Cathy Croghan about all things prairie related.\nGrab self-guided tour information and explore the prairie and gardens with your group.\nCheck out the historic Gibbs Farmhouse on a guided history tour. (offered at 12:00\, 1:00 or 2:00)\nVisit the farm animals!\nBring a snack or a picnic to enjoy.\n\nGibbs Farm is an 8-acre site that includes a restored prairie\, gardens historic and replica buildings. This event will take place outside and will be set up to allow social distancing between groups. Masks need to be worn at all times while inside and when on a tour. \nProgram will start at 11:00\, check in begins at 10:30. \nPart of the History Revealed series of programs.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/begin-with-a-bee-book-event-kids-nature-investigation-tour/
LOCATION:Gibbs Volunteer Interest Form
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Book Event,Children's Events,Community Events,Gibbs Events,Tours
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210622T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210622T203000
DTSTAMP:20260414T235530
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Tulsa Race Massacre
DESCRIPTION:The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre\nKarlos K. Hill\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nTuesday\, June 22\, 2021\, 7:00 pm\nNew registration link: Rescheduled Registration Link\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \n\n\n\nJoin us for this very special History Revealed program with Karlos K. Hill\, author of the new book\, The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History\, on the centennial of the event in Tulsa\, OK.  \nOn the evening of May 31\, 1921\, and in the early morning hours of June 1\, several thousand white citizens and authorities violently attacked the African American Greenwood District of Tulsa\, Oklahoma. In the course of some twelve hours of mob violence\, white Tulsans reduced one of the nation’s most prosperous black communities to rubble and killed an estimated 300 people\, mostly African Americans. This richly illustrated volume\, featuring more than 175 photographs\, along with oral testimonies\, shines a new spotlight on the race massacre from the vantage point of its victims and survivors. \nHistorian and Black Studies professor Karlos K. Hill presents a range of photographs taken before\, during\, and after the massacre\, mostly by white photographers. Some of the images are published here for the first time. Comparing these photographs to those taken elsewhere in the United States of lynchings\, the author makes a powerful case for terming the 1921 outbreak not a riot but a massacre. White civilians\, in many cases assisted or condoned by local and state law enforcement\, perpetuated a systematic and coordinated attack on Black Tulsans and their property. \nDespite all the violence and devastation\, black Tulsans rebuilt the Greenwood District brick by brick. By the mid-twentieth century\, Greenwood had reached a new zenith\, with nearly 250 Black-owned and Black-operated businesses. Today the citizens of Greenwood\, with support from the broader community\, continue to work diligently to revive the neighborhood once known as “Black Wall Street.” As a result\, Hill asserts\, the most important legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre is the grit and resilience of the Black survivors of racist violence. \nThe 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History offers a perspective largely missing from other accounts. At once captivating and disturbing\, it will embolden readers to confront the uncomfortable legacy of racial violence in U.S. history. \n \nKarlos K. Hill is Associate Professor and Chair of the Clara Luper Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory.\nImage of Professor Hill from https://www.ou.edu/cas/afam/faculty-staff\n \n \nAn additional book for families and children grades 3-6\, Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford\, illustrated by Floyd Cooper\, is available from Lerner Publications at https://lernerbooks.com/shop/show/20776 \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-tulsa-race-massacre/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event,Presentation,Publishing,Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210617T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210617T203000
DTSTAMP:20260414T235530
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Irvine Park
DESCRIPTION:Neighborhood Architecture: Irvine Park\nJeanne Kosfeld and Richard Kronick\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nJune 17\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link \nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the Roseville Library\n \n\nTwin Cities-based illustrator Jeanne Kosfeld and author Richard Kronick have together transformed a simple sketchbook featuring pen and ink drawings into a brief storytelling of the Irvine Park neighborhood’s unique 172-year history. The author and illustrator will share the history and the architecture of Irvine Park’s fanciful Queen Anne-style homes\, simple clapboard houses\, and elaborate French Second Empire-style mansions\, and the story of the area and its inhabitants. \nWhat began as a casual sketch outing in Saint Paul’s charming Irvine Park neighborhood during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic became Neighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book. Twin Cities-based illustrator Jeanne Kosfeld and author Richard Kronick have together transformed a simple sketchbook featuring pen and ink drawings into a brief storytelling of the Irvine Park neighborhood’s unique 172-year history. Artists of all ages and abilities can colorize their own imagined versions of these historic edifices. \nNeighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book will be available from RCHS in April.\nNeighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book will be available in softcover with 18 house sketches\, brief histories of the homes’ owners and architecture; and an architectural style guide and glossary at the end of the 48-page book. $18.99 regular price\, $15.00 for RCHS members. Shipping will be additional. \nTo order books\, use the order form here. \nAbout the Illustrator: Artist Jeanne Kosfeld paints primarily with water-based media\, but her large body of work also includes print and board game design and public sculpture. She started her career as a newspaper illustrator and cartoonist. Along her creative path\, she led the design department at the University of Alaska\, where she was also an adjunct faculty member. In Minnesota\, she worked as the creative director at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts for eighteen years. \nKosfeld has won several awards\, and her work resides in many public and private collections. She has been honored with artist-in-residences around the globe. \nAbout the Author: Richard Kronick has been a full-time freelance writer since 1985\, specializing in architecture and engineering. He is the co-author with Rick Harrison and Greg Yoko of a 2010 book on suburban planning titled Prefurbia: Reinventing the Suburbs from Disdainable to Sustainable. Kronick has written over one hundred articles and reviews on the built environment and has planned and led more than sixty architecture tours in the Twin Cities\, the Midwest\, and Italy. He is a member of the board of directors of the nonprofit Preserve Minneapolis (PM) and is editor-in-chief of PM’s MinneapolisHistorical.org\, a guide to the city’s architecture. He often lectures and teaches continuing education courses on the history of architecture and is an expert on the Prairie School architects Purcell & Elmslie.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-irvine-park/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event,Presentation,Publishing
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210520T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210520T203000
DTSTAMP:20260414T235530
CREATED:20210108T164309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210108T164309Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Historic Ballparks
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nHistoric Ballparks of the Twin Cities\nStew Thornley\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nMay 20\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the Roseville Library \nFrom the rickety to the palatial\, ballparks have grown up with and defined baseball in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Some old-timers have vivid memories of cheering for Willie Mays and Roy Campanella at Nicollet and Lexington. Others marveled at a majestic Killebrew home run at the Met. Many a lucky resident celebrated two world championships in the Metrodome and witnessed one of the greatest pitching performances in World Series history. More recently\, fans have enjoyed the return of sunshine and even raindrops at Target Field. Described by City Pages as “the most respected local baseball historian\,” Stew Thornley leads a tour of where we—as well as our grandparents and now our children—discovered baseball. \nStew Thornley has been researching Minnesota baseball history for more than forty years. He is an official scorer for Minnesota Twins home games and is a member of the Major League Baseball Official Scoring Advisory Committee.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-historic-ballparks/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210515T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210515T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T235530
CREATED:20210426T175045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210426T175045Z
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SUMMARY:Irvine Park Coloring Book Walking Tours
DESCRIPTION:Irvine Park Walking Tour and Book Release Event for\nNeighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book\nSaturday\, May 15\, 2021\nTwo sessions: 11:15 am and 12:30 \nJeanne Kosfeld and Richard Kronick have created a unique first book featuring the lovely Irvine Park neighborhood. Readers may color or paint eighteen sketches of old homes while learning about the area’s history and architecture. \nFor tour registrations\, see our secure form here. \nRCHS will host a COVID-safe kickoff event for the coloring book and short tour of the Irvine Park neighborhood on Saturday\, May 15\, 2021. \nTickets are $30 each or $27 for members and include a copy of the coloring book\, which will be distributed at the end of the tour. \n\nThe first tour begins at 11:15 am followed by a second tour at 12:30 pm.\nTours are limited to sixteen people\, two people per registration.\nMasks are required to be worn throughout the event.\nPlease meet ten minutes before the start of the tour at 223 Walnut Street.\nPark at the Alexander Ramsey House lot\, 265 Exchange Street South.\nRain date: June 5\, 2021.\n\nPlease contact RCHS at events@rchs.com if concerned about the weather or to cancel your registration.\nThere are no refunds\, but we will contact you to get a mailing address to ship your coloring book. \nExtra copies of Neighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book are available in softcover with eighteen house sketches\, brief histories of the homes’ owners and architecture; and an architectural style guide and glossary at the end of the forty-eight-page book. Cost is $20; $18 for RCHS members.\nOrder at https://rchs.com/publishing/books/. \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/irvine-park-coloring-book-walking-tours/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,Publishing,Special Events,Tours
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210506T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210506T200000
DTSTAMP:20260414T235530
CREATED:20210325T155235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210325T155235Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Alvin Karpis and the Barker Gang
DESCRIPTION:Alvin Karpis and the Barker Gang in Minnesota\nDeborah Frethem & Cynthia Schreiner Smith\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nMay 6\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the White Bear Lake Area Historical Society. \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nFrom their home base in Minnesota\, the Karpis-Barker Gang cut a swath of crime and terror across the Midwest in the early 1930s. They kidnapped two important businessmen and held them for exorbitant ransoms. They stole payrolls and robbed banks as the bullets flew. Corrupt police and wily crime bosses helped Alvin Karpis and the Barker brothers\, Freddie and Doc\, every step of the way. Who were these men and women? What made them into killers and kidnappers? How did their reckless lifestyles lead to their downfall? From Ma Barker to Volney Davis to Edna Murray the Kissing Bandit\, authors Deborah Frethem and Cynthia Schreiner Smith delve into the crimes\, personalities and motivations of one of the most successful and infamous gangs in American history.\nCynthia Schreiner Smith is an actor/writer/producer born and raised in St. Paul\, Minnesota\, where she still lives in a suburb outside the city. This is her first book\, but she he has published short pieces on St. Paul history in the St. Paul Almanac in 2012 and 2014. Since 1998\, she has worked as a tour guide for “Down in History Tours” in St. Paul\, researching and writing scripts for its historical tours. She is best known there for performing the St. Paul Gangster Tour as Barker-Karpis gang member Edna Murray\, the Kissing Bandit. Cynthia and her husband\, Bick Smith\, are co-owners of CyBick Productions\, producing corporate videos and short films. In 2011\, they produced Gangsterland\, a documentary-style movie about 1930s gangsters in St. Paul.\nDeborah Frethem previously published Ghost Stories of St. Petersburg\, Clearwater\, and Pinellas County with The History Press in 2007\, Haunted Tampa: Spirits of the Bay in 2013 and Haunted Ybor City in 2014. She has also written scripts for historical tours in Minnesota and Florida and conducted these tours for more than twenty years. She has a bachelor’s degree in history from Olaf College and has served as tour manager for “Down in History Tours” in St. Paul. She is currently a writer and storyteller\, living on a boat in the Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-alvin-karpis-and-the-barker-gang/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210423T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210423T200000
DTSTAMP:20260414T235530
CREATED:20210330T144239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210330T144239Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: From Hurt to Healing
DESCRIPTION:The East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society Present\n\nFrom Hurt to Healing: An Intergenerational Activity Book\n\nJan Mandell and Mariana Morgan-Sawyer\nHistory Revealed Series\nApril 23\, 2021\nFriday\, 6:30 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nHow do we move from hurt to healing? The murder of George Floyd and the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic brought together young people and elders in a three-month Zoom conversation focused on healing from trauma. Elders shared stories of how they persevered in their racial justice struggles when they were young\, and young people asked questions\, listened\, and led mind-body medicine breathing tools they were practicing to heal from their stress and burn-out in the aftermath of intensive activism responding to the traumatic events of 2020. \nIn From Hurt to Healing: An Intergenerational Activity Book\, there are coloring pages of community elders including blocks of texts and inspirational quotations where they share their wisdom and experiences for moving from hurt to healing as well as beautifully hand drawn coloring pages of breathing tools with directions and other healing practices such as humming\, hair braiding\, and dancing. There are word searches and writing prompts to encourage intergenerational dialogue and includes the wisdom of the St. Paul Rondo community with coloring pages of the Selby Avenue Jazz Fest\, Rondo Days\, and other local festivals. \nJoin some of the creators of From Hurt to Healing and members of the ESFL community in an exploration of how this coloring activity book can promote cross-generational connection and healing from trauma. From Hurt to Healing: An Intergenerational Activity Book\, a collaboration between Every Body’s In and Irreducible Grace Foundation (IGF)\, two black-led non-profits in the Rondo Community of St. Paul\, MN\, is available now! Books can be ordered on the Irreducible Grace website.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-from-hurt-to-healing/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event,Special Events
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Booth Girls
DESCRIPTION:Booth Girls: Pregnancy\, Adoption\, and the Secrets We Kept\nKim Heikkila\, PhD\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nApril 8\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \nBooth Girls is a thoughtful\, multigenerational story of contested motherhood\, equal parts biography\, oral history\, history\, and memoir. \nKim Heikkila’s mother had a secret: in 1961\, two years before her marriage\, she became pregnant. After several months hidden in her parents’ attic bedroom\, she gave birth to a daughter at the Salvation Army’s Booth Memorial Hospital\, a home for unwed mothers in St. Paul\, and surrendered her for adoption. \nKim’s older sister reunited with her birth family in the 1990s. Kim’s mother wrote about these experiences\, but after she died\, Heikkila still had questions. Using careful research and sensitive interviews with other “Booth girls\,” she tells the stories of the Booth hospital and the women who passed through it—and she learned more about her own experience as an adoptive mother. \nKim Heikkila\, PhD\, is an independent scholar and president of Spotlight Oral History. She has also taught courses on US history\, US women’s history\, the Vietnam War\, and the 1960s at colleges and universities in the Twin Cities area. She is the author of Sisterhood of War: Minnesota Women in Vietnam. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-booth-girls/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event,Presentation
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com
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