BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Ramsey County Historical Society - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Ramsey County Historical Society X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://rchs.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Ramsey County Historical Society REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20200308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20201101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20210314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211107T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221202T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221202T190000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20221107T161705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221107T161705Z UID:10008907-1669975200-1670007600@rchs.com SUMMARY:Landmark Center Old-Fashioned Holiday Bazaar DESCRIPTION:History defines us\, changes us\, and helps us grow. What better gift can you give than history? Ramsey County Historical Society offers a variety of Ramsey County and Minnesota history books for readers of all ages. We’ll be selling these stories of local heroes\, everyday Minnesotans\, grand architecture\, Dakota lifeways\, business and industry\, and more at the 44th Annual Landmark Center Old-Fashioned Holiday Bazaar. In addition\, we’ll showcase our newest publications with author signings. Enjoy festive holiday music and refreshments while you shop! \nThursday\, December 1 – 10 am to 7 pm \n5 – 7 pm: RCHS Meet & Greet/Book Signing: Neighborhood Architecture: Irvine Park\, St. Paul—a coloring book by Richard Kronick & Jeanne Kosfeld                              \nFriday\, December 2 – 10 am to 7 pm \n3 – 5 pm: RCHS Meet & Greet/Book Signing: Mairs & Power at 90: A Rich History\, a Bright Future by Dave Beal              \n5 – 7 pm: RCHS Meet & Greet/Book Signing: Grasshoppers in My Bed: Lillie Belle Gibbs\, Minnesota Farm Girl\, 1877 by Terry Swanson & Peggy Stern  \nThursday/Friday Twilight Shopping Special: Enjoy a complimentary refreshment from 4 to 7 pm \nSaturday\, December 3 – 10 am to 5 pm \n10 am – 12 pm: RCHS Meet & Greet/Book Signing: Grasshoppers in My Bed: Lillie Belle Gibbs\, Minnesota Farm Girl\, 1877 by Terry Swanson & Peggy Stern                   \n12 – 2 pm: RCHS Meet & Greet/Book Signing: Neighborhood Architecture: Irvine Park\, St. Paul—a coloring book by Richard Kronick & Jeanne Kosfeld   \n2 – 4 pm: RCHS Meet & Greet/Book Signing: Mairs & Power at 90: A Rich History\, a Bright Future by Dave Beal    \n$5 admission/under 12 free \nLandmark Center * 75 West 5th Street * St. Paul\, Minnesota URL:https://rchs.com/event/landmark-center-old-fashioned-holiday-bazaar/2022-12-02/ LOCATION:Landmark Center\, 75 W Fifth Street \, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States CATEGORIES:Publishing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Bazaar-2022-image-e1667837813523.jpg GEO:44.945308;-93.097105 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Landmark Center 75 W Fifth Street Saint Paul MN 55102 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=75 W Fifth Street:geo:-93.097105,44.945308 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221201T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221201T190000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20221107T161705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221107T161705Z UID:10008906-1669888800-1669921200@rchs.com SUMMARY:Landmark Center Old-Fashioned Holiday Bazaar DESCRIPTION:History defines us\, changes us\, and helps us grow. What better gift can you give than history? Ramsey County Historical Society offers a variety of Ramsey County and Minnesota history books for readers of all ages. We’ll be selling these stories of local heroes\, everyday Minnesotans\, grand architecture\, Dakota lifeways\, business and industry\, and more at the 44th Annual Landmark Center Old-Fashioned Holiday Bazaar. In addition\, we’ll showcase our newest publications with author signings. Enjoy festive holiday music and refreshments while you shop! \nThursday\, December 1 – 10 am to 7 pm \n5 – 7 pm: RCHS Meet & Greet/Book Signing: Neighborhood Architecture: Irvine Park\, St. Paul—a coloring book by Richard Kronick & Jeanne Kosfeld                              \nFriday\, December 2 – 10 am to 7 pm \n3 – 5 pm: RCHS Meet & Greet/Book Signing: Mairs & Power at 90: A Rich History\, a Bright Future by Dave Beal              \n5 – 7 pm: RCHS Meet & Greet/Book Signing: Grasshoppers in My Bed: Lillie Belle Gibbs\, Minnesota Farm Girl\, 1877 by Terry Swanson & Peggy Stern  \nThursday/Friday Twilight Shopping Special: Enjoy a complimentary refreshment from 4 to 7 pm \nSaturday\, December 3 – 10 am to 5 pm \n10 am – 12 pm: RCHS Meet & Greet/Book Signing: Grasshoppers in My Bed: Lillie Belle Gibbs\, Minnesota Farm Girl\, 1877 by Terry Swanson & Peggy Stern                   \n12 – 2 pm: RCHS Meet & Greet/Book Signing: Neighborhood Architecture: Irvine Park\, St. Paul—a coloring book by Richard Kronick & Jeanne Kosfeld   \n2 – 4 pm: RCHS Meet & Greet/Book Signing: Mairs & Power at 90: A Rich History\, a Bright Future by Dave Beal    \n$5 admission/under 12 free \nLandmark Center * 75 West 5th Street * St. Paul\, Minnesota URL:https://rchs.com/event/landmark-center-old-fashioned-holiday-bazaar/2022-12-01/ LOCATION:Landmark Center\, 75 W Fifth Street \, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States CATEGORIES:Publishing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Bazaar-2022-image-e1667837813523.jpg GEO:44.945308;-93.097105 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Landmark Center 75 W Fifth Street Saint Paul MN 55102 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=75 W Fifth Street:geo:-93.097105,44.945308 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221112T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221112T140000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20221026T201008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T201008Z UID:10008905-1668258000-1668261600@rchs.com SUMMARY:Immigration\, Identity & the Arts: The Song Poet DESCRIPTION:NEA Big Read\nImmigration\, Identity and the Arts: The Song Poet\nwith Kao Kalia Yang\n\nSaturday\, November 12\, 1:00-2:00 pm\nHistory Revealed \nPart of the NEA Big Read series launched by American Composers Forum and East Side Freedom Library\, the “Immigration\, Identity\, and the Arts” series ss part of the NEA Big Read\, featuring Minnesota immigrant communities and NEA Big Read book “The Best We Could Do” by Thi Bui. \nPresented with the Ramsey County Historical Society\, Historic Saint Paul and the Minnesota Opera\, this event will feature Minnesota author and Hmong-American Kao Kalia Yang to discuss her book\, The Song Poet\, and her collaboration with Jocelyn Hagen about their opera presented by Minnesota Opera this Spring. \nRegister here \nA father’s love\, a family’s journey.\nThe first Hmong story adapted for the operatic stage\, St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir The Song Poet comes to life in this world premiere opera. It tells the story of Yang’s family and her song poet father as war drives them from the mountains of Laos into a Thai refugee camp and ultimately on to the challenging world of life as an immigrant. With his poetry\, Kalia’s father inspires hope in his family\, polishing their reality so that they might shine.  \nKao Kalia Yang is a Hmong-American writer. She is the author of the memoirs The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir\, The Song Poet\, and Somewhere in the Unknown World. Yang is also the author of the children’s books A Map Into the World\, The Shared Room\, The Most Beautiful Thing\, and Yang Warriors. She co-edited the ground-breaking collection What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss By and For Native Women and Women of Color. Yang’s work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Chautauqua Prize\, the PEN USA literary awards\, the Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize\, as Notable Books by the American Library Association\, Kirkus Best Books of the Year\, the Heartland Bookseller’s Award\, and garnered four Minnesota Book Awards. Kao Kalia Yang lives in Minnesota with her family\, and teaches and speaks across the nation. \n  \n\n \nAmerican Composers Forum believes that music is a medium that can help us connect as humans\, tell stories\, and share experiences. East Side Freedom Library has long hosted study groups\, partnerships\, and community events that lift up the stories of its neighborhood in the name of justice. Together\, we will host several cultural events and conversations examining the theme of “Immigration\, Identity\, and the Arts\,” to amplify the voices\, stories\, and music of immigrant artists and community members wrestling with this theme. Included in our events will be discussion of\, and inspiration from\, Thi Bui’s graphic memoir\, The Best We Could Do. Supported by the NEA’s Big Read project\, this book aligns greatly with our theme\, and resonates with so many members of our community. We are planning parallel in-person and virtual options to accommodate health and accessibility considerations. All events are free and open to the public. \nNEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. URL:https://rchs.com/event/immigration-identity-the-arts-the-song-poet/ LOCATION:Landmark Center\, 75 W Fifth Street \, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States CATEGORIES:History Revealed ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/SongPoet.jpg GEO:44.945308;-93.097105 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Landmark Center 75 W Fifth Street Saint Paul MN 55102 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=75 W Fifth Street:geo:-93.097105,44.945308 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221110T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221110T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20221013T194621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T164655Z UID:10008904-1668108600-1668112200@rchs.com SUMMARY:History Revealed: The Farmer-Labor Movement: A Minnesota Story DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: The Farmer-Labor Movement: A Minnesota Story\nDocumentary Film Screening & Discussion\nwith Filmmakers Randy Croce\, Tom O’Connell\, and Anna Kuharjec\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, November 10\, 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 \nThe East Side Freedom Library\, Ramsey County Historical Society\, and Roseville Public Library invite you to a special session of History Revealed: The Farmer-Labor Movement: A Minnesota Story. This event will include a screening and discussion of a new documentary film.\n\nThe Farmer-Labor movement founded the most successful third-party in U.S. political history. This progressive movement elected candidates and advanced political change in Minnesota from 1917 until its merger with the Democrats in 1944\, to form the DFL\, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. The documentary portrays this history through the voices of Farmer-Labor leaders and their descendants\, as well as contemporary historians and activists. Animated segments bring the personal stories of Farmer-Labor men and women to life\, while songs from the period convey the spirit of the movement. \nWhile the movement’s ideas and achievements still affect Minnesota’s political and social fabric\, its history is largely unknown. The documentary addresses that awareness gap and points out how Farmer-Labor goals and the challenges still resonate today. \nPlease join filmmakers Randy Croce\, Tom O’Connell\, and Anna Kuharjec for a conversation after the screening. \nRandy Croce has been a documentary photographer and video producer since 1976. His PBS broadcast shows include Clouded Land\, If Stone Could Speak and Who built Our Capitol? He worked at the U of M Labor Education Service\, where he produced shows with workers and their unions. \nTom O’Connell is a retired professor of Political Studies from Metropolitan State University and served as founding chairperson of ESFL’s Board of Directors. He has taught and written about social movements with a special focus on MInnesota’s Farmer-Labor and Progressive Populist History. \nAnna Kuharjec has a Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois and is teaching in the History program of the Dougherty Family College of the University of St. Thomas. \nFree and open to all. \n\nThis presentation is part of our 2022 series “Making 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-the-farmer-labor-movement-a-minnesota-story/ CATEGORIES:History Revealed ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/farmer-labor.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221020T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221020T190000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20220831T191241Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T164429Z UID:10008897-1666292400-1666292400@rchs.com SUMMARY:History Revealed: Vikings in the Attic DESCRIPTION:Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America\nwith Eric Dregni\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, October 20\, 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 \nGrowing up with Swedish and Norwegian grandparents with a dash of Danish thrown in for balance\, Eric Dregni thought Scandinavians were perfectly normal. Who doesn’t enjoy a good\, healthy salad (Jell-O packed with canned fruit\, colored marshmallows\, pretzels\, and even olives) or perhaps some cod soaked in drain cleaner as the highlights of Christmas? In Vikings in the Attic\, Dregni tracks down and explores the significant—and quite often bizarre—historic sites\, tales\, and traditions of Scandinavia’s peculiar colony in the Midwest. It’s a legacy of the unique—shots of turpentine for the common cold—but also one of poor immigrants living in sod houses while their children attend college\, the birth of the co-op movement\, and government agents spying on Scandinavian meetings hoping to nab a socialist or antiwar activist. \n \nEric Dregni is the author of 20 books including Vikings in the Attic\, Weird Minnesota\, Never Trust a Thin Cook\, Let’s Go Fishing!\, For the Love of Cod\, and Impossible Road Trip. He wrote about his 15-year experience running one of the Concordia Language Villages in You’re Sending Me Where? Dispatches from Summer Camp. As a Fulbright fellow to Norway\, he survived a dinner of rakfisk (fermented fish) thanks to 80-proof aquavit\, took the “meat bus” to Sweden for cheap salami with a busload of knitting pensioners\, and compiled the stories in In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream. \nHe is Professor of English\, Journalism\, & Italian at Concordia St. Paul and\, in the summer\, dean of the Italian Concordia Language Village\, Lago del Bosco. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three kids. \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-vikings-in-the-attic/ CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/VikingsAttic-HistoryRevealed-web2-1-e1664818541729.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221011T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221011T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20220719T211215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T212341Z UID:10008890-1665508500-1665520200@rchs.com SUMMARY:Gala For Gibbs DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society invites you to join us for the\nGala for Gibbs\nTuesday\, October 11\, 2022\, 5:15-8:30 pm\nJoin RCHS at Dove Hill to help children experience Gibbs Farm! \nGALA FOR GIBBS \nDove Hill\n260 Summit Ave\, Saint Paul MN 55102\nParking at the Cathedral of Saint Paul lot on Selby Ave.\nSchedule\n5:15: Social Hour\n6:00: Heavy hors d’oeuvres\, hosted bar\, silent auction\n7:00: Program featuring historian and author Larry Millett \nCocktail Attire\nMasks are welcomed and encouraged. \nTickets $150.00 per person\nRegistration and Silent Auction bidding site: \nGALA FOR GIBBS \nPlease register by Tuesday\, September 27\, 2022.\nOr call 651-222-0701 ext. 226\nemail: events@rchs.com\nPlease contact us with questions. \n\n\n\n\nGala for Gibbs is a fundraising event to support the fun\, hands-on\, and one-of-a-kind educational programs Gibbs Farm provides to more than 15\,000 students in our community each year. \nGala for Gibbs will take place at Dove Hill\, a beautiful historic home in Saint Paul’s Cathedral Hill district\, on Tuesday\, October 11\, 2022. The event will benefit Gibbs Farm and includes a live auction\, silent auction and fund-a-need. Historian and author Larry Millett is the featured speaker along with a testimonial from a teacher on the positive impact that visits to Gibbs Farm has on students. \nProceeds from the Gala for Gibbs will help keep Gibbs Farm programming accessible and affordable for the children in our community. \nGibbs Farm is currently the only organization in Minnesota offering field trips that focus on the dual interpretation of pioneer and Indigenous life-ways. URL:https://rchs.com/event/gala-for-gibbs/ LOCATION:Dove Hill\, 260 Summit Ave.\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States CATEGORIES:Gibbs Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/DoveHillA-e1664832211478.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221010T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221010T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20220915T192546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T173632Z UID:10008898-1665428400-1665433800@rchs.com SUMMARY:History Revealed: Gichigami Hearts DESCRIPTION:Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong\nLinda Legarde Grover\nHistory Revealed Series\nMonday\, October 10\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIndigenous Peoples’ Day\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 \nAward-winning author Linda LeGarde Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong (the place of the giants) on Lake Superior \nLong before there was a Duluth\, Minnesota\, the massive outcropping that divides the city emerged from the ridge of gabbro rock running along the westward shore of Lake Superior. A great westward migration carried the Ojibwe people to this place\, the Point of Rocks. Against this backdrop—Misaabekong\, the place of the giants—the lives chronicled in Linda LeGarde Grover’s book unfold\, some in myth\, some in long-ago times\, some in an imagined present\, and some in the author’s family history\, all with a deep and tenacious bond to the land\, one another\, and the Ojibwe culture. \nLinda will also be sharing highlights from her new poetry book\, The Sky Watched\, Poems of Ojibwe Lives. \n\n\nLinda LeGarde Grover is professor emeritus of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe. Her books The Road Back to Sweetgrass\, Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year\, and In the Night of Memory\, all from Minnesota\, have earned numerous awards\, including the Native Writers Circle of the Americas First Book Award; Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards for Poetry\, Memoir\, and Fiction; and a Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. Her book of stories The Dance Boots was the winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. \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-gichigami-hearts/ CATEGORIES:History Revealed ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/9781517911935_edit-e1664818584338.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220915T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220915T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20220628T160134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T173844Z UID:10008888-1663268400-1663273800@rchs.com SUMMARY:History Revealed: Indigenous Peoples Day DESCRIPTION:Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Traditions & Celebrations\nDr. Kate Phillips\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, September 15\, 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 \nThe second Monday in October is a day to honor Native American people\, their histories\, and cultures. People mark the day with food\, dancing\, and songs. DR. Kate Phillips will share the history and the multiple traditions that this holiday can have\, and how it can be celebrated in all with family and friends in many ways. \nDr. Katrina Phillips is a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. She earned her BA and PhD in History from the University of Minnesota\, and she teaches Native American history and the history of the American West at Macalester College. \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-indigenous-peoples-day/ CATEGORIES:Making Minnesota,Online Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/811zERjEEfL-e1664818716508.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220913T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220913T130000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20220822T154419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220822T154419Z UID:10008896-1663070400-1663074000@rchs.com SUMMARY:Gallery Talk DESCRIPTION:Bob Brown Exhibition Gallery Talk\nPaul Nelson\nTuesday\, September 13\, noon-1:00 pm\nLandmark Center North Gallery\nFree and open to all. \nRamsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with Landmark Center\, premieres an exhibition featuring local artist Robert Brown (1893-1954) in the North Gallery.  While there are few known details of Brown’s life\, we do know he studied briefly in Europe and New York City before settling in St. Paul\, where he worked as an artist in the 1930s and ’40s. He painted\, mostly watercolors\, in the regionalist style promoted by the Federal Art Project (FAP).  The FAP provided work and a basic income to a few thousand American artists and artisans during the Great Depression. Most of Brown’s known works are St. Paul urban scenes and landscapes. \nAdditional free programming includes a gallery talk with local historian\, Paul Nelson\, who wrote a retrospective of Brown and discovered images of many artworks that have not been seen in nearly 100 years.  Paul Nelson will talk at noon – 1pm on Tuesday\, September 13 in the North Gallery.  Time is allowed to view the artwork on display and ask questions. \nLook for the article “Bob Brown: Paint What You See” in the upcoming Summer 2022 issue of Ramsey County History magazine. \nThe exhibition is free and open to the public during public Landmark Center hours August 7th through September 25th. URL:https://rchs.com/event/gallery-talk/ LOCATION:Landmark Center\, 75 W Fifth Street \, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Brick-Yard-Cherokee-Heights-web.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com GEO:44.945308;-93.097105 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Landmark Center 75 W Fifth Street Saint Paul MN 55102 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=75 W Fifth Street:geo:-93.097105,44.945308 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220908T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220908T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20220512T160429Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T174000Z UID:10008874-1662663600-1662669000@rchs.com SUMMARY:History Revealed: Shared Community: Chicano Studies DESCRIPTION:A Shared Community: Chicano Studies at the University of Minnesota\nwith Dionicio Valdes\, PhD\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, September 8\, 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. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nDr. Valdes will take us on an examination of the birth and 20th century history of the Chicano Studies Department at the University of Minnesota\, with particular attention to the role played by the political turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s throughout the nation and in the Twin Cities.  He will focus on the creative ongoing tensions between advocates of distinct visions\, both within the academic world and within the Twin Cities community\, that created the Department and have supported it for more than half a century. \n \nProfessor Dionicio Valdes directed the U of M’s Ph.D. program in Chicano/Latino Studies and taught in it for 23 years before moving to Michigan State University.  He has been a very active and respected scholar. His publications include El Pueblo Mexicano en Detroit y Michigan: A Social History(private printing\, 1981); Al Norte: Agricultural Workers in the Great Lakes Region\, 1917-1970(University of Texas Press\, 1991); Barrios Norteños: St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press\, 2000); Mexicans in Minnesota (MinnesotaHistorical Society Press\, 2006); and Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement Before the UFW: Puerto Rico\, Hawai’i\, and California (University of Chicago Press\, 2011). \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-shared-community-chicano-studies/ CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/valdes1-e1664818792984.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220818T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220818T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20220505T170156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T170156Z UID:10008866-1660849200-1660854600@rchs.com SUMMARY:History Revealed: Black\, Brown & Red Power DESCRIPTION:Black\, Brown and Red Power in the Twin Cities: Parallels\, Intersections and Self-Determination in a Liberal Haven\nDr. Jimmy Patino\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, August 18\, 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 \nThe Twin Cities evolved in a unique and dynamic historical conjuncture in the long 1960s as a site in which African American\, American Indian and Mexican American communities were concentrated in an otherwise overwhelmingly white state. The emergence of Black Power\, the American Indian Movement\, and the Chicano Movement parallel and overlapping in a shared urban site speaks to the socio-political context of racialized injustice within a labor friendly and liberal progressive state. This presentation explores the direct and indirect overlap of these constituent communities’ struggles against police violence\, inter-residential violence related to concentrated poverty\, and physical and cultural displacement. These dynamic movements built infrastructure to confront these shared forms of repression\, but through their particular racialized communities: The Way organization in the Black community\, Centro Cultural Chicano in the Mexican community\, and in several independent schools in the American Indian community. These institutions—also evident in the emergence of the Black Patrol\, the AIM Patrol and the Brown Berets in addressing police violence—emerged independently to address the overlapping racial capitalist context and highlighting its differential articulation. However\, there were points of convergence and direct interaction\, culminating in the struggle for ethnic studies at the University of Minnesota\, among others. \n \nJimmy Patiño is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota.  His book Raza Sí\, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego was published in 2017. He has also written on Mexican American desegregation\, African American and Latina/o/x critical thought in hip-hop culture\, and is currently writing on ideas about solidarity and anti-capitalist thought across Black\, Brown and Red Power Movements. URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-black-brown-red-power/ CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Chicano.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220804T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220804T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20220224T220202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T220202Z UID:10008849-1659639600-1659645000@rchs.com 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/ CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event,Publishing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Lillie_COVER_F_web.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220721T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220721T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20220610T185043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220610T185043Z UID:10008883-1658430000-1658435400@rchs.com 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/ CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Bell-Museum-PHOTO-1_web.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220714T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220714T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20220610T184235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220610T184235Z UID:10008882-1657825200-1657830600@rchs.com 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/ CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CARROLL_M9781681341668_web.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220609T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220609T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20220224T220919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T220919Z UID:10008850-1654801200-1654806600@rchs.com 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/ CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Dejsiab.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220512T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220512T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20220224T212546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T212546Z UID:10008847-1652382000-1652387400@rchs.com 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/ CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/1-2-WatThamkrabok-Cover_web.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220503T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220503T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20220418T183345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220418T183345Z UID:10008857-1651604400-1651609800@rchs.com SUMMARY:History Revealed: Poor Farm DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: Geographies of the Ramsey County Poor Farm\, from Minnesota Territory to the New Deal\nwith Jack Acomb\, Eva Stromgren\, Marisa Williamson\, and Henry Yackel\, Macalester College Geography Department\, Prof. Jesse McClelland\nHistory Revealed Series\nTuesday\, May 3\, 2022\n7:00-8:30 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library \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 \nThe East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to History Revealed: Geographies of the Ramsey County Poor Farm\, from Minnesota Territory to the New Deal\, a special presentation by Macalester College Geography students. \nRegister here to join this event on Zoom \nPoor farms were government-run homes for poor and vulnerable people that doubled as working farms. As a local response to extreme poverty\, poor farms spread across the US in the 19th Century up until the federalization of anti-poverty relief in the New Deal era. Minnesota’s first poor farm was founded by pioneer landholders in Ramsey County in 1854\, making it one of the first residential facilities in Minnesota Territory. Across four different sites\, the Ramsey County Poor Farm would shelter thousands of unpaid county residents while providing income to paid supervisors and workers and would provide nutrition to countless patients at the county hospital. Yet abuse and neglect at the Poor Farm – as well as ableist\, classist\, and anti-immigrant stigmatization of poor farm residents – kept this program a continual target of criticism. \nThe presentation explores the regulation of livelihood as a key mode of power in the colonial frontier. We seek to honor the often overlooked lives and ambitions of impoverished and marginalized people who lived and died on poor farms. We ask\, How might consideration of this often-overlooked institution and its residents shape ongoing popular debates about land\, dispossession\, welfare and belonging? \nPresenters are Jack Acomb\, Eva Stromgren\, Marisa Williamson\, and Henry Yackel – students in Geography at Macalester College. Jesse McClelland is their Professor. The presentation traces main archival findings for a practice-based advanced course\, Unearthing the Poor Farm: Local Geographies of Land\, Law and Livelihood\, which will be shared on a forthcoming website. \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-poor-farm/ CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20220503-Poor-Farm-map_web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220414T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220414T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20220307T154714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220307T154714Z UID:10008851-1649962800-1649968200@rchs.com SUMMARY:History Revealed: Invisible Warriors DESCRIPTION:Invisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II\nwith Gregory S. Cooke and Jeremiah Ellis\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, April 14\, 2022\n7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library \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 \nInvisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II\, share the untold story of 600\,000 Black women – “Rosie the Riveters” – who worked in factories and government offices during WWII\, including here at the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (TCAAP). Prior to the war\, nationally more than 80 percent of employed Black women were locked in life-stifling jobs as sharecroppers and domestics\, according to Invisible Warriors creator and World War II historian\, Gregory S. Cooke.  After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor\, many women quit their jobs as domestics. \nJeremiah Ellis will talk about some of the women who worked at TCAAP\, and Greogory Cooke will share the making of his film\,  Invisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II in a brief discussion. After the discussion\, attendees are invited to view a special screen of the entire film of Invisible Warriors\, about 60 minutes long. \nThe film Invisible Warriors shares the stories of women in the Philadelphia area who became “Black Rosies.” One of the women featured in the film\, Ruth Wilson\, left her job as a domestic and received training at Bok Technical High School before working as a sheet metal specialist at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Wilson helped build the aircraft carrier\, USS Valley Forge.  For Wilson\, the job paid significantly more\, but it was also about patriotism\, helping her country win the war. “I did something to help the cause\, and I was doing something to help the boys. It just made me feel special.”  “Wilson’s resilience and determination typified the spirit of Black Rosies as they sought brighter futures for themselves and family members in a country dominated by systemic racism and gender discrimination\,” according to Cooke. \nThe Invisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II screening is sponsored by the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota. \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-invisible-warriors/ CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/invisible-warriors-web.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220406T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220406T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20220307T170550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220307T170550Z UID:10008852-1649271600-1649277000@rchs.com 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/ CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/MONTRIE_M9781681342108_web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220317T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220317T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20211229T181245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211229T181245Z UID:10008842-1647543600-1647549000@rchs.com SUMMARY:History Revealed: Tikkun Olam DESCRIPTION:Tikkun Olam: Jewish Women Serving Their St. Paul Community\nwith Kate Dietrick\, Gabrielle Horner\, and Janet Kampf\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, March 17\, 2022\n7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library \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 \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. \nFive women from St. Paul’s Jewish community—Hannah Austrian\, Sophie Wirth\, Annie Paper\, Gretta Freeman\, and Rhoda Redleaf embraced and helped resettle impoverished Jewish immigrants through education efforts\, job training\, and by providing relief. They also rallied for basic rights\, stepping up in times when progressive actions by women were often frowned upon. While their names may have been forgotten by most\, their work to make the world a better place still impacts the local community to this day. Their lives provide insights into Jewish immigrant life in the upper Midwest in the late nineteenth century. \nAuthors and historians Kate Dietrick\, Gabe Horner and Janet Kampf will present the stories of these women and the long-lasting effects that their efforts have had on the Jewish community. \nTo learn more\, see the Ramsey County History article in the Fall 2021 issue. \nImage: Boys at the Lake Rest Vacation Home\, established in 1911 was renamed Sophie Wirth Camp in 1926 to honor the work of Sophie Wirth. \nKate Dietrick is the archivist for the Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives at the University of Minnesota. She is a resident of St. Paul and a member of Mount Zion Temple. \nGabrielle Horner is a descendant of Italian\, German and English immigrants to St. Paul and is a lifelong resident. She is coauthor of A Grand History: The Summit Hill Neighborhood’s First 200 Years. \nJanet Kampf joined Mount Zion Temple in 1968 and is a member of The Women of Mount Zion Temple. She is the past chair and the current secretary-treasurer of Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council. URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-tikkun-olam/ CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Tikkun-Olam_McKinley-School_PHOTO-5.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220217T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220217T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20220202T214913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220202T214913Z UID:10008846-1645124400-1645129800@rchs.com SUMMARY:History Revealed: Scottie Primus Davis DESCRIPTION:Scottie Primus Davis: A Story Forgotten to Time\nwith Mary K. Boyd\, Chester C. Owens Jr.\, Granvile T. O’Neal and Steve Trimble\nOther panelists may be announced. Moderated by Meredith Cummings\, RCHS Editor\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, February 17\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the 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 \nScottie Primus Davis spent her formative years in St. Paul\, Minnesota\, growing up under the tutelage of involved parents and well-respected “movers and shakers\,” including J. Q. Adams\, the Farr sisters\, Nellie Francis\, and others. So\, it wasn’t a surprise when the determined Davis became the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Minnesota\, hired on as a no-nonsense English teacher\, and continued her lifelong learning\, completing a master’s degree from Harvard University. But now we have the honor of learning about the incomparable\, the unforgettable (Miss) Scottie Primus Davis. \nHistorian Steve Trimble\, author of an article in Ramsey County History magazine on Miss Scottie Primus Davis\, will be joined by educator Mary K. Boyd in a panel discussion moderated by RCHS Editor Meredith Cummings. \nImage: Scottie P. Davis in her graduation photo from the University of Minnesota. Photo courtesy of University of Minnesota archives and the Saint Paul Almanac. From Ramsey County History magazine. \n\n\n\nMary K. Murray Boyd is President and CEO of MKB & Associates\, Inc.\, an education and human services consulting business. Ms. Boyd has extensive experience in management\, leadership\, communications and coalition building\, serving in a variety of roles professionally and in the Saint Paul community. She held several positions in the Saint Paul Public Schools beginning as a teacher’s aide and retiring in 2001 as an Area Superintendent. Since retiring from Saint Paul Public schools\, Boyd has served in three interim positions\, Manager of Ramsey County Child Protection\, Director of Ramsey County Community Human Services Department’s Family and Children’s Services Division and Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Hamline University. She has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of St. Thomas and at the University of Minnesota. \nChester C. Owens Jr. is a retired business owner\, veteran\, historian\, community activist\, and student of Miss Scottie P. Davis in the late 1940s/early 1950s. He served in the U.S. Air Force. In the early 1960s\, he worked with the Northwest District Citizens Committee and the NAACP to desegregate the downtown shopping district in Kansas City\, Kansas\, and served as chairman of the NAACP’s Labor and Industry Committee from 1960 to 1963. In 1976\, Owens bought H.W. Sewing and Co.\, serving as president of the agency. In 1983\, he was elected to the City Council of Kansas City\, making him the first African American elected in the 20th century. Serving two terms on the council\, he also briefly served as deputy mayor in 1984. Owens retired as president of H.W. Sewing and Co. in 1998. Owens has also served on numerous boards and as president of the Northeast Business Association\, on the boards of Homeowner’s Task Force for the State of Kansas\, the Economic Opportunity Foundation\, and Sumner High School Alumni Association. He is also a member of Sigma Pi Phi and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternities. He is the recipient of numerous awards\, among which are the Kansas City\, Kansas Leadership Award in 1989\, of which he was the first ever recipient; the Kansas City Globe’s One Hundred Most Influential Citizens in 1990; the 2012 Outstanding Leadership Award presented by the Kansas House of Representatives;  the NAACP Civil Rights Award; and the Friends of Yates’ Black Man of Distinction Award. Owens has also been honored through the naming of the Chester C. Owens Sumner Alumni Room and The Chester Owens Jr. Construction Skills Training Center\, which houses a U.S. Department of Labor-run program called YouthBuild\, both named in 2011. \nMr. Owens will be joined by Granvile T. O’Neal\, an actor and fine arts professional based in Kansas City\, Kansas. O’Neal serves on the board of the Traditional Music Society and is curator for the Chester C. Owens Sumner Alumni Room\, which maintains artifacts\, memorabilia\, and historical information on Sumner High School. He also has numerous commercial\, voice overs\, and film credits. \nSteve Trimble is an author\, a historian\, and a frequent contributor to the Dayton’s Bluff District Forum. He is a member of the Ramsey County Historical Society Editorial Board\, and has written a number of articles for our magazine\, Ramsey County History\, including an article on Scottie Primus Davis in the Winter 2022 issue. Steve is a frequent lecturer\, author\, and book collector. URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-scottie-primus-davis/ CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ScottiePDavis_Grad-photo_web.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220210T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220210T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20220107T200333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220107T200333Z UID:10008845-1644519600-1644525000@rchs.com SUMMARY:History Revealed: Harriet Scott DESCRIPTION:Settler Colonialism Seen Through the Life of Harriet Scott\nwith Jane Henderson\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, February 10\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the 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 \nScholars of institutionalized racism have used the term “settler colonialism” to characterize the development of the United States — and many other countries. While this has been a useful concept leading to the asking — and answering — of productive questions\, it has often\, perhaps too often\, been deployed at a level of abstraction that seems remote from the ways that indigenous people\, white people\, immigrants\, and African Americans have lived their lives and interacted with each other. \nJane Henderson’s research engages the conversation around American slavery in the North within the framework of the expansion of the U.S. nation state through the frontier.  Fort Snelling\, the first white American settlement in the Minnesota territory\, was also the site of the first Black community in the state.  Henderson’s research draws on letters of prominent military officials\, merchants\, and others involved in “Indian business.”  She probes the letters and records of Lawrence Talliaferro\, an Indian agent for the Federal Government tasked with administering  annuity payments to Dakota and Ojibwe peoples\, in exchange for claims to their land.  Talliaferro was one of the largest slave owners in the Minnesota territory.  Henderson uses these sources to trace the life of Harriet Robinson\, who was owned by Talliaferro and held at Fort Snelling. In 1836/37\, she met and married Dred Scott\, who 20 years later would earn a place in history by suing for his freedom\, his case reaching the U.S. Supreme Court.  Henderson uses Harriet (and Dred) Scott’s lives not only as pathways into reconstructing the lives of enslaved women and men at Fort Snelling but also to illuminate the shifting political economy of the region from centering the fur trade toward an economy based on the commodification of land\, the commercialization of trade\, and the exploitation of labor\, both enslaved and free.  Her presentation\, while centered on the previously little told story of an individual enslaved woman\, will raise important questions about the relationships between U.S. militarism\, slave labor\, genocide\, and emancipation on the frontier. \nImage: Harriet Robinson Scott\, from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated\, New York\, June 17\, 1857. \n \nJane Henderson grew up in the Twin Cities before earning a BA in Ethnic Studies and Spanish at the University of San Diego. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at UC-Berkeley\, and she has returned to Minneapolis to research her dissertation on Black place-making in Minnesota. \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-harriet-scott/ CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Harriet-Scott_web.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220120T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220120T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20211028T220717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211028T220717Z UID:10008837-1642705200-1642710600@rchs.com SUMMARY:History Revealed: Making Minnesota - Saint Paul DESCRIPTION:Making Minnesota: The Story of Saint Paul\nBill Lindeke\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, January 20\, 2022\n7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library \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 \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. \nBill Lindeke will explore this topic as it relates to the history of Saint Paul in the second program in the series. The first will be “We Are Meant To Be Here” on January 13\, 2022. More information on both these programs and the series will be coming soon. \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 with Andy Strdevant. His most recent book is St. Paul: An Urban Biography\, a concise history of St. Paul. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/ \nImage: Postcard titled “St. Paul\, 1856\,” describing the cover as an oil painting by S. Holmes Andrews. The first Minnesota Territorial Capitol building is in the center far background. From the RCHS Collection. URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-making-minnesota-saint-paul/ CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/1901480_web.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220113T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220113T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20211110T170903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211110T170903Z UID:10008841-1642100400-1642105800@rchs.com 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/ CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/9781517912215_large2_web.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211214T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211214T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20211028T171439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211028T171439Z UID:10008836-1639508400-1639513800@rchs.com SUMMARY:History Revealed: Jean Follett DESCRIPTION:A Little-Known Story: Jean Follett\, Women Artists\, and the St. Paul School of Art\nwith Melissa Rachleff Burtt\nHistory Revealed Series\nTuesday\, December 14\, 2021\n7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdeyhrDsiGtXe9f_bxxmOQk0vJTnhZ0xQ 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 our final “History Revealed” for 2021. \nJean Follett grew up on the East Side of St. Paul\, served in the U.S. military during World War II\, and moved to New York City\, where she played an active role in the development of the post-war art scene. In 1962\, Follett returned to St. Paul where she joined other local women in the contentious arguments around aesthetics\, the roles of art in society\, and the roles of gender and the places of immigrants in the art world. These arguments had swirled around the St. Paul School of Art (today the Minnesota Museum of Art\, or the “M”) since the Progressive Era (before World War I) and they continued through the Great Depression\, World War II\, and the Cold War years. \nMelissa’s focus on Jean Follett\, who has never received the attention her artistic work deserves\, provides a window into these arguments and their impact on the art world\, including the “applied arts\,” architecture\, engineering\, natural history (including the founding of the Science Museum)\, art museums\, and more\, from St. Paul to New York City. \nMelissa Rachleff is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Administration Program at NYU: Steinhardt\, where she concentrates on the nonprofit sector. In 2017 she curatedInventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City\, 1952-1965 for NYU Grey Art Gallery and wrote/edited the accompanying book\, which is co-published by the Grey and Prestel Publishing. Melissa began her career as the assistant curator at Exit Art and co-curated exhibitions on the intersection of visual art and documentation. She also worked on exhibits about under-examined artists at mid-career. As a program officer for the New York State Council on the Arts from 1999-2007\, Melissa was an advocate in supporting contemporary art projects done in collaboration with local communities. She has written about artist organizations for a variety of publications\, and her essay\, “Do It Yourself: A History of Alternatives” was published in Alternative Histories: New York Art Spaces (MIT Press) in 2012. For the fiftieth anniversary of 1968\, Melissa curated Narrative & Counternarrative: (Re)Defining the Sixties for NYU’s Bobst Library. URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-jean-follett/ CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Follett.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211204T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211204T170000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20211109T165958Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211109T165958Z UID:10008840-1638612000-1638637200@rchs.com SUMMARY:Holiday Bazaar DESCRIPTION:Landmark Center “Old-Fashioned Holiday Bazaar”\nThursday\, December 2\, 2021 10 am – 7 pmFriday\, December 3\, 2021 10 am – 7 pmSaturday\, December 4\, 2021 10 am – 5 pm\nLandmark Center75 Fifth St. West\, St. Paul\, 55102 \n$5.00 Landmark Center entry fee per person\, under 12 free (fees benefit Landmark Center) \nCome on down to the Holiday Bazaar at Landmark Center\, and receive a 20% discount off ALL books in the RCHS Office\, #323! \nAll in-person book sales will be discounted 20%. Includes RCHS publications and some previous History Revealed titles and backstock. \nNeighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book will also be 20% off during the Bazaar! \nFor more information\, see https://www.landmarkcenter.org/old-fashioned-holiday-bazaar/ URL:https://rchs.com/event/holiday-bazaar-2/ LOCATION:Catalog CATEGORIES:Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Landmark_HolidayBazaar2021Logo_Web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211203T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211203T190000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20211109T165655Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211109T165655Z UID:10008839-1638525600-1638558000@rchs.com SUMMARY:Holiday Bazaar DESCRIPTION:Landmark Center “Old-Fashioned Holiday Bazaar”\nThursday\, December 2\, 2021 10 am – 7 pmFriday\, December 3\, 2021 10 am – 7 pmSaturday\, December 4\, 2021 10 am – 5 pm\nLandmark Center75 Fifth St. West\, St. Paul\, 55102 \n$5.00 Landmark Center entry fee per person\, under 12 free (fees benefit Landmark Center)\nThursday & Friday Twilight Shopping Special:\nEnjoy a complimentary refreshment from Landmark Center\, 4 – 7 pm \nCome on down to the Holiday Bazaar at Landmark Center\, and receive a 20% discount off ALL books in the RCHS Office\, #323! \nAll in-person book sales will be discounted 20%. Includes RCHS publications and some previous History Revealed titles and backstock. \nNeighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book will also be 20% off during the Bazaar!\nJoin Jeanne Kosfeld and Dick Kronick on Friday evening from 4-7 pm! Jeanne and Dick will be available to sign books and answer questions during Friday’s Twilight Shopping! URL:https://rchs.com/event/holiday-bazaar/2021-12-03/ LOCATION:Catalog CATEGORIES:Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Landmark_HolidayBazaar2021Logo_Web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211202T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211202T190000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20211109T165655Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211109T165655Z UID:10008838-1638439200-1638471600@rchs.com SUMMARY:Holiday Bazaar DESCRIPTION:Landmark Center “Old-Fashioned Holiday Bazaar”\nThursday\, December 2\, 2021 10 am – 7 pmFriday\, December 3\, 2021 10 am – 7 pmSaturday\, December 4\, 2021 10 am – 5 pm\nLandmark Center75 Fifth St. West\, St. Paul\, 55102 \n$5.00 Landmark Center entry fee per person\, under 12 free (fees benefit Landmark Center)\nThursday & Friday Twilight Shopping Special:\nEnjoy a complimentary refreshment from Landmark Center\, 4 – 7 pm \nCome on down to the Holiday Bazaar at Landmark Center\, and receive a 20% discount off ALL books in the RCHS Office\, #323! \nAll in-person book sales will be discounted 20%. Includes RCHS publications and some previous History Revealed titles and backstock. \nNeighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book will also be 20% off during the Bazaar!\nJoin Jeanne Kosfeld and Dick Kronick on Friday evening from 4-7 pm! Jeanne and Dick will be available to sign books and answer questions during Friday’s Twilight Shopping! URL:https://rchs.com/event/holiday-bazaar/2021-12-02/ LOCATION:Catalog CATEGORIES:Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Landmark_HolidayBazaar2021Logo_Web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211118T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211118T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20210831T184318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210831T184318Z UID:10008829-1637262000-1637267400@rchs.com 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/ CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Belvo-cover-image_web.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211021T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211021T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T204224 CREATED:20210222T162806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210222T162806Z UID:10008775-1634842800-1634848200@rchs.com 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/ CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/STPaul_Cover-Select_no-boat_web.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR