Steamboat on the Minnesota
By Hilda Parks Steamboats once plied the Minnesota River, as far as the Upper Sioux Agency below Granite Falls, [...]
Christmas of 1885
Holiday traditions have not changed much in the past 130 years. December in Blue Earth County in 1885 was [...]
Spanish Flu killed Over 100 People in Blue Earth County
By Ryan Harren In March and April 1918, people across the United States began coming down with influenza. While [...]
Let’s Cook With Gail
By Hilda Parks Do you know anyone who learned to cook along with Gail Palmby and her recipes, published [...]
Local 4-H Groups over 100 Years Old
By Win Grundmeier A.B. Graham was credited with founding 4-H clubs in Ohio in 1902. In 1912, T.A. Erickson, [...]