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Save the date for this St. Cloud Area Genealogists event! Join us on April 19 with Mary Kircher Roddy presenting the webinar “FamilyBrowse: A New Way to Use FamilySearch.org." The presentation will be offered synchronously online. Familysearch.org has millions of images on its website, but many are not indexed or searchable. Kircher Roddy will show participants […]
The Stearns History Museum will be hosting a pop-up exhibit, where you can bring your recipes, special ingredients, or just tools of the trade, and share it and its meaning with our visitors! Maybe you have an old family recipe that's been passed down for generations, or an old piece of traditional cookware or utensils. […]
Memory Writers is a writing group that meets twice a month on the first and third Tuesdays at 10:00 am. The group develop topics to write about and in turn shares those stories. This program is free to Museum members (non-members $7).
Please join us for Civil War Roundtable with Darryl Sannes! This program takes place on May 10 at 3:45 pm. Please call the museum to register/ask questions - 320.253.8424 "Burn the Town and Sack the Banks," the Confederate Raid on St. Albans, Vermont Late in 1864 the Confederate States of America devised a plan to […]
Join us for breakfast on May 11! This month, we will be joined by author Ames Sheldon. She will be discussing her book Lemons in the Garden of Love. Coffee and rolls will be provided! This program is at Stearns History Museum on May 11th from 9am-10am. Cost is $7 for nonmembers and free for […]
Hops and History is back! In 2022, every other month we will be enjoying a Historic Happy Hour, complete with discussions of quirky historic topics and local craft beer. Mitch Bender is a professor at St. Cloud State University, where he has been teaching environmental studies since 2002. He considers himself a tattoo enthusiast. As […]
Memory Writers is a writing group that meets twice a month on the first and third Tuesdays at 10:00 am. The group develop topics to write about and in turn shares those stories. This program is free to Museum members (non-members $7).
Save the date for this St. Cloud Area Genealogists event! Have you struggled to find your ancestors in Germany? If so, join the St. Cloud Area Genealogists at Stearns History Museum on May 17 for Dana Palmer's webinar “Useful Tools for Finding German Ancestors." Dana Palmer specializes in lineage society applications, publishing family books, and Midwestern […]
Join the community discussion of "Evidence of V: a novel in fragments, fact and fiction" on Saturday, May 21, 2022. When author Sheila O'Connor attempted to uncover secrets about her family, she discovered the little-known history of incarcerating young girls for 'immorality' throughout Minnesota. (Books available for immediate checkout at Great River Regional Library) See […]
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