News & Updates

New for 2025! Winter PeeWee Sessions! 9:30am-11:30am on Wednesdays Gibbs Farm is expanding our popular summer camp program, PeeWees, to include winter-time fun! These mini camps are a perfect introduction for 4 & 5 year-olds who are ready for some independent fun!  Gibbs Farm staff will lead campers through adventures…

Are you ready for an adventure? In 2024, Gibbs Farm has camps for kids aged 4 to 13.  Whatever piques your interest – 19th century farm or Dakota seasonal life, nature, games, farm animals, gardening, tea parties – we have a camp for you!   Gibbs Farm is an eight-acre site…

Ethel Stewart Heritage Society’s Annual Luncheon A wonderful time was had by all at Como Pavilion for the annual Ethel Stewart Heritage Society Luncheon. With beautiful spring weather, society members were treated to catered lunch from Cossetta Eventi and a presentation from Andrea Swensson about her book Deeper Blues. Andrea’s talk…

 The RCHS and CFHS Fellows wrapped up their fellowship with a panel discussion On May 22, 2025 Linda Lor, KaoLee Vang, Wone Vang, and Kalia Vue came together to discuss their preservation projects and Hmong heritage for History Revealed. Kalia Vue discussed her research on the Hmong diaspora, while Wone…

It was early in 1965 when Selma, Alabama, became the focus of Black voter registration efforts by Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). At the time, due to Jim…

Parks & People Coloring Book published by St. Paul Parks and Ramsey County Historical Society is available now!   Saint Paul Parks Conservancy’s Parksgiving and book launch party On May 16th, 2025, RCHS joined Saint Paul Parks Conservancy in celebrating the 176th birthday of Saint Paul Parks. The Parks…

RCHS opens the Selma 70 exhibit with a panel discussion featuring pilgrims who attended the 50th anniversary of the Selma March in 2015 On April 24, 2025, RCHS hosted panelists Vanne Owens Hayes, Mary K. Boyd, and Otis Zanders as they shared their stories spanning the decades since the Civil…

RCHS hosted a Happy Hour in the Apple Orchard on Friday, May 9, 2025 for our members. Sarah Morris serenaded guests with music as we welcomed spring to the farm and orchard.