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Contents

Spring 2011
  • Grinnell in the Civil War - on the 150th anniversary of the start of the war
  • Co-Presidents' Message
  • Thanks to our donors in 2010
  • Grinnell Historical Museum Endowment Fund established with the Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation. To contribute to this Fund, contact the foundation at 641-236-5518 or sign on to www.greaterpcf.org.
  • Tribute to Lois Meacham, a long-time volunteer, who died in February, 2011
  • Mumford Holland's grave at Hazelwood Cemetary marked - a former slave who lived and died in Grinnell in 1916
  • Montage of Grinnell's Heritage offered to 2011 donors

 

Spring 2010 
  • Museum aims to be green inside and out 
  • Happenings: new board members, new brochure, unusual acquisitions
  • President's Message: Tourism grant helped to solve water problem
  • Thanks to our donors in 2009
  • Tribute to Ralph Luebben and Ben Graham

 Winter 2009

 

  • A Message from the President
  • Lincoln and J.B. Grinnell, a staunch abolitionist
  • Museum's winning float in Fourth of July Parade
  • Museum Outreach program
  • Thanks to our donors in 2008


Winter 

2008

 

  • S.O.S. - Museum works to “Save Our Stuff” 
  • Taking the show on the road
  • Museum goal: ‘what is it’ and ‘where is it’
  • Upkeep is ongoing at museum
  • Thanks to our donors in 2007
 

 Winter 2007

 

 

  • Davis School third-graders' half day at the Museum
  • Tallying the doilies, dishes and daguerreotypes: the Museum's electronic catalog project started,  with a grant from the Claude and Dolly Ahrens Foundation
  • Peregrinations of a bench from the Carson School in the 1880s to the 1970s
  • New space for exhibits at Grinnell Regional Medical Center
  • Museum paint job: One color, different shades
 

 Winter 2006

 
  •  Remembering Aunt Kate (Kate Siehl, housekeeper and friend of the McMurray family for 40 years): an interview with her niece, Irene King Anderson.
  

 

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