From: "Seymour, Janet I - WHS" <Janet.Seymour@wisconsinhistory.org> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:57:46 -0500 Subject: List Serve - Land O'Lakes Historical Society - new exhibit Message-ID: <488E289A5C909049B0E55F6B651B5B35012F9FB77ADB@MEWMAD0PC01G02.accounts.wistate.us>
The Land O' Lakes Historical Society will open a grade school classroom exh
ibit at the Land O' Lakes Town Hall on Wednesday, April 1, from 6 to 8 p.m.
The current Land O' Lakes Town Hall was originally the Land O' Lakes grade
school, serving grades one through eight. It was built in 1931, with a late
r addition in the 1950s. This school closed, and was turned into the Land
o' Lakes Town Hall when a new, modern school for grades one through five wa
s built on property to the South of the Town Hall.
The Land O' Lakes Historical Society requested permission from the Land O'
Lakes Town Board to create a classroom exhibit in one of the rooms of the T
own Hall.
The Town Board granted permission, and Shirley Battin, a former teacher, an
d Barbara Renk, a former student at the Land O' Lakes School, both Land O'
Lakes Historical Society members, worked for about one year renovating the
room and designing the exhibit, which takes up the perimeter of one of the
main rooms. The exhibit includes chalkboards, student desks, and, among ot
her things, the desk of Anita Soquist, longtime first grade teacher in Land
O' Lakes.
The exhibit designers and the Historical Society thank several local contra
ctors, the Town Board, and the Land O' Lakes Town Crew, as well as special
donors, for their assistance in making this exhibit possible.
This exhibit will be continuing, and is part of the Land O' Lakes Historica
l Society's program of Museum Without Walls--featuring continuing exhibits
in buildings throughout the Land O' Lakes area in addition to the changing
exhibits in the Land O' Lakes Northern Waters Museum. Other exhibits in th
e Museum Without Walls program include the mammoth Dr. Eickhoff bears at th
e Gateway Lodge, the MacArthur Pine at the Land O' Lakes Chamber of Commerc
e building, and the Lucien Kopf paintings at the Land O' Lakes Post Offic
e.
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Barbara Nehring Land O' Lakes Historical Society Trading Post Interntionale Inc. 4184 Hwy B P. O. Bop 269 tradingpostint@gmail.com