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Author Archives: popecountymuseum
German Genealogy
The Douglas County Genealogy Guild extends an invitation to their next meeting on Thursday, November 8, at 5:30pm. Guest speaker, Stephen S. Barthel will talk about German resources available to family research. Stephen Barthel has worked as a reference consultant … Continue reading
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Wrapping up 2011
As the year rolls to an end, we invite you to make a 2011 contribution to the Pope County Historical Society’s roof fund. Since announcing the fund drive in October we have received $60,000 toward our goal of $160,000 to … Continue reading
Fire Chiefs Featured
The fire chiefs of the Glenwood Fire Department are featured in a new exhibit installed today at Eagle Bank. The exhibit culminates several months of research by Museum supporter, Steve Nestor. He was inspired last fall when he learned that … Continue reading
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Pope County 4th of July featured on Minnesota Reflections
This is an installment of “Digital Delights from Minnesota Reflections,” a monthly feature of the Minnesota Digital Library listserv. Patriotism is a hot topic in American society. Questions of how much patriotism is enough or too much fly across the … Continue reading
From the PCHS Boardroom
From their very beginning, citizens of Pope County knew they were a people with a history—a story to be preserved and shared with the next generation. Even in the earliest years, there were a few County residents with memories and … Continue reading
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Making Ends Meet
Much of recent news revolves around the economy, responsible business practice and balanced budgets. The Historical Society has not been spared the effects of reduced income from both programming and from charitable gifts. The consistent effort in the last five … Continue reading
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Photos going up
The third of 6 panels has all the portraits! So we are half-way done hanging the portraits! There is left space on each panel for bigger pictures and extra stories. Once those items are added, we can start mounting the … Continue reading
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Tagged exhibit, military, Pope County, Pope County Minnesota, Pope County Museum, veteran
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Veteran / Military wall progress
All 1500 images have been scanned. Most have been re-sized to print. Each soldier’s name is being printed right on the photo. Phyllis is working hard to get each photo ready to print. The printer is humming along next to … Continue reading
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Veteran Project – Getting closer
Our Military project is nearing completion. All the photo editing is done, and most of the photos are printed and trimmed. Today I started adding the gold stars on the photos of those who died while in service. Some of … Continue reading
Free Admission
We are pleased to announce that admission to the Pope County Museum will be free again all summer! Come on in and see us. We are open Tuesday – Saturday 10-5.
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