Message-ID: <779B71ABEC93434B8665DB7AFF816A3C@D6M9HM91> From: "Kathy Laakso" <kathyl@douglashistory.org> Subject: Re: List Serve - Land O'Lakes Historical Society - new exhibit Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:16:46 -0500
It would be helpful for organizations to add their address and even location
in Wisconsin. I have no idea where Land O' Lakes is and some others I've
seen here. I would like to stop in at these places when I'm traveling
around.
Thanks.
Kathy
Douglas County Historical Society
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From: "Seymour, Janet I - WHS" <Janet.Seymour@wisconsinhistory.org>
To: <localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:57 AM
Subject: List Serve - Land O'Lakes Historical Society - new exhibit
The Land O' Lakes Historical Society will open a grade school classroom
exhibit 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 later
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 was
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
Town Hall.
The Town Board granted permission, and Shirley Battin, a former teacher, and
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
other things, the desk of Anita Soquist, longtime first grade teacher in
Land O' Lakes.
The exhibit designers and the Historical Society thank several local
contractors, 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 Historical
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 the
Museum Without Walls program include the mammoth Dr. Eickhoff bears at the
Gateway Lodge, the MacArthur Pine at the Land O' Lakes Chamber of Commerce
building, and the Lucien Kopf paintings at the Land O' Lakes Post Office.
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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
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