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Day-long event featuring:
Dad’s Belgian Waffle Feed, 7:30 a.m. to noon, Vietnam Veterans Recognition Day
and Fly-In, sponsored by Alexandria American Legion Post #87 (tickets at door)
“Warbirds” on display
Big Band entertainment by Doc’s All-Stars beginning at 7 pm
Food and drink catered by Depot Express and featuring Carlos Creek Wine
Raffle with prize packages valued up to $500
Grand March for those dressed in period costume
Tickets for sale at:
Bremer Bank (downtown)
Elden’s Food Fair
Pete’s County Market
Runestone Museum
Trumm Drug
Douglas County Historical Society
1219 Nokomis Street
Alexandria, MN 56308
Phone: 320-762-0382 or www.dchsmn.org for more information.
First Class pre-sale: $15 per person
Coach Class at the door: $20 per person
Charter pre-sale: $100 for table of 8
I N S I D E T H I S
I S S U E :
Spruce Hill Church
Hymn-Sing and Picnic 1
Fete Champetre 2
“The Grapevine” 3
News and Notes 4
Roots Cellar 5
Membership
Information
6
DCHS Information
7
Calendar 8
Timeless Topics Summer 2012
Spruce Hill Church
Mid-Summer
Hymn-Sing and Picnic
Sunday, July 1, 2012
1:30 p.m.
The public is cordially invited to attend the annual Mid-Summer
Hymn-Sing and picnic at the Spruce Hill Church. Highlights include:
A musical prelude featuring Lynn Olson on piano will set the scene for an
afternoon of uplifting music and reminiscence.
The Gordon Men’s Choir will be singing! The voices of this choir fill up the old
historic church in a way that brings the roof down. You will not want to miss
their moving tribute to the old church and what she stands for.
Pastor Michael Hanson, who shares his ministry in the Morris area with home
visitations, will deliver the message.
Spruce Hill native, Ray Engstrand will be back to the old church to play his
violin with Jubilee Baker, great-great-granddaughter of Pehr Christianson who
carved the pulpit in the church, accompanying him on the piano.
Annette Hustad (of “Tina and Lena” fame) will play her harmonium during
offertory time.
David Lusty will provide wagon rides from the church to the Spruce Hill Park
(although NOT through the old town site). Historians, including Joel Blank, will
share information about the old town-site.
The afternoon will be topped off with an old-fashioned picnic including hot dogs
and all the trimmings.
The Spruce Hill Church has been under the management of the Douglas County
Historical Society since 1994. The 1880 Swedish immigrants who built the church
established firm traditions of worship in the picturesque country church. The
church is located in the northeast corner of Douglas County. Take Highway 29
north to County Road 5. Turn east on County Road 5 at Jim and Judy’s and drive
about 5 1/4 miles. You will find the church nestled behind a grove of trees near
the Spruce Hill County Park. Call the Historical Society at 320-762-0382 for
additional information.
P a g e 2 N e w s l e t t e r T i t l e
Fète Champétre Festival
fète champétre (n)
(fét shān-pe’tr),
Definition: French for
an outdoor festival or
entertainment.
DO WE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION YET?
Please mark your calendar for an indoor/
outdoor “membership festival”
Saturday, September 8, 2012,
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Douglas County Historical Society
Indoor: WHO DO YOU THINK YOU
ARE?...Open House in the Research Library.
Check out our resources and begin your family search.
Outdoor: Old-fashioned picnic lunch, games and entertainment. Renew your membership and bring
a friend. New member “special introductory offer”.
More information for this open house will be available on our website, Facebook page and local
media outlets.
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Hey Kat and Annie….sending addresses for each other so you can email back and forth. Annie will be sending SHC Christmas info to you Kathryn for newsletter. And Annie, include an old photo to go with text/info. Thanks! 'Douglas County Historical Society' Annie’s email address
P a g e 3 T i m e l e s s T o p i c s
T h e g r a p e v i n e
The garden is in!
Special thanks to the homeschoolers, Beth
Hoover, Dianne Tomczik, Mary Isaac, and Art and
Marcy Isackson.
Anderson Florist & Greenhouse planted our
seven trees with eight more to come next year.
We are so grateful!
This year we would like to construct a potting
shed. ANY donations would be appreciated as
financial con-
straints have
halted the construction. Thank you also to REA for
their gift.
We will have regular updates on our progress. We
are also planning to do some cooking classes with
our produce. The homeschoolers have made a
commitment to come every other week and we
are so glad to have them. Have a great 4th of July
holiday! Annie Skoglund
Please consider donating to
our garden! Our wish list:
Wild Bergomot
Purple Cone Flower
Wild Geranium
Dutchman’s
Breaches
Wild Ginger-Root
Witch Hazel Bush
Trout Lily
Bloodroot
Culver’s Root
ALL PERENNIALS!
Call Beth or Annie at 320-762-0382 to volunteer, donate,
or for more information.
Hey Kat and Annie….sending addresses for each other so you can email back and forth. Annie will be sending SHC Christmas info to you Kathryn for newsletter. And Annie, include an old photo to go with text/info. Thanks! 'Douglas County Historical Society' Annie’s email address
P a g e 4 T i m e l e s s T o p i c s
H o n o r i n g M i l i t a r y a t t h e F a i r
M i s s i n g Y e a r b o o k s
C a n y o u H e l p ?
Stop in and see us at the Douglas County
Fair in August. We will be in the Heritage
Building featuring a special exhibit
honoring our military men and women.
Alhias:
1914, 1915, 1916, 1920, 1922
Alexian:
1937, 1983, 1984, 1997, 1998, 1999,
2003
We are missing the following yearbooks. Can you
help us complete our collection?
Douglas County Fair
August 16 – 19
Heritage Building
near the East Gate
P a g e 5 T i m e l e s s T o p i c s
R o o t s C e l l a r
G e n e a l o g y G u i l d
“ T a k i n g t h e P a s t i n t o t h e f u t u r e ”
Genealogy Guild Officers
President: Marcine Nightengale
Secretary/Treasurer: Harland Hanson
Program: Marcy Isackson/Darlene Hanson
Editor, “Roots Cellar”: Dale Braunschweig
The Genealogy Guild is open to anyone who has an interest
in genealogy. Anyone, from novices to experienced
researchers are welcome. Meetings are held the 2nd
Thursday of most months in the lower level of the DCHS.
Please call 320-762-0382 for the next meeting date and
location.
licensed marriage and family therapist, Craft said she often
listens to client couples discuss changing or hyphenating their
names. “What I hear is that people want to create a sense of
union, and having that hyphenated name complicates things,”
she said. “They don’t feel that it gives the impression of a uni-
fied team, or they get tired of always having to explain their
relationship. Are you divorced? Cohabiting? One last name cuts
down on confusion and creates a sense of cohesion. My own
kids’ last name is hyphenated. It is a little bit of a pain. I might
do it differently if I were to do it over again.”
Craft said that she’s also observed a bit of a shift toward
“conservatism in values when it comes to marriage.” “As a
therapist I stress that there are different ways you can individu-
ate, carve out your separateness and balance it with the
togetherness.”
She pointed out one other possible reason that young women
aren’t experiencing the identity insecurity of their forbearers:
“The age at which people get married has increased so much, a
lot of women are looking for a life partner, feeling pretty well
established in their own lives, not worried about feeling
smothered.”
Nancy Battaglia, a florist and wedding planner for Bellagala in
St. Paul, said she works with brides who keep their names so
rarely now, she’s surprised when it happens.
“It’s less often than even eight years ago, when I started in this
business,” she said. “It comes up every time because I remind
the couple that not only legally for the marriage license, but if
they're planning on taking off for an overseas honeymoon, the
name on their passports and itineraries have to match, so they
have to decide what the legal name will be well in advance of
the wedding.”
“Something about getting married tends to bring out traditional
yearnings in both sides of a couple”, Battaglia said.
“With grooms, it’s not wanting to see the bride in her dress
(before the wedding), even if they’ve been living together for
years, “she said. “With brides, it could be doing the name
change.”
Battaglia, who is in her mid-50s, said she had friends who went
both ways when they were in their 20s and 30s. She took her
husband’s name. A few years ago, sitting around the dinner
table with he husband of 31 years and their young adult
children, she announced she was thinking of going back to her
maiden name, Wesley, “My husband wasn’t threatened by it at
all, “she said. “It was my kids who were horrified.”
Used with permission: From the Variety section of the
Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 16, 2012.; “What’s in a
Name” by Kristin Tillotson .
What’s in a name? New brides are
returning to an old custom. Today’s young
brides are adopting their husband’s last
name because they want to, not because
they feel they have to. Emma Rosen is soon
to become Emma Sugerman. Rosen, 25,
who works in health care marketing, will
legally take the last name of her husband-
to-be, medical student Noah Sugerman,
when the two marry this summer.
Vanessa Messersmith, 32-year-old owner of
the hip clothing shop, Blacklist Vintage, took the name of her
husband Jeremy, a musician, when they married six years ago. Both
consider themselves to be feminists, and neither made the decision
lightly.
The majority of married women in America have always chosen to
legally assume their grooms’ last names. But at the end of the 20th
century, more women retained their maiden names as a way of
retaining individual identity.
A widely noted Harvard study of college–educated women found that
between 2 percent and 4 percent in 1975 kept their names. Those
numbers sharply increased through the 1970s and 1980s before
declining in the 1990s to just below 20 percent in 2001.
While it is more socially acceptable than ever for brides to keep their
surnames, fewer are, according to wedding planners and other
observers. Of nearly 19,000 women surveyed by the wedding site
The Knot.com last spring, 86 percent took their husband’s name.
The reasons often fall into one or more of these camps: It’s easier. It
makes the family seem more unified. They don’t feel like their
personal identities are being swallowed up in the process. “It’s
something to think about, but I’ve always known I would take Noah’s
name,” Rosen said. “For me it’s just practical. My career is very
important to me, but I’ve only been in the working world four years. I
can understand women wanting to keep their maiden names, but I
don’t feel my identity is wrapped around mine. If it were five or ten
years from now when I was getting married, it might be a different
discussion.”
What about the compromise practice of hyphenating surnames,
which also surfaced a generation ago, and bestowing them upon your
children? “Well, what happens if you marry another hyphenate, and
then have kids? You have to wonder who benefits from having four
hyphenated last names,” she said.
Messersmith, whose maiden name was McKinney, said her husband
“Didn’t care what I chose either way. I thought long and hard, but in
the end I didn’t see the logic in keeping one patriarchal name—my
father’s—over another. I also thought Jeremy’s name was cool.” In a
national survey conducted last year by Indiana University research-
ers, two-third of more than 800 respondents across all socioeco-
nomic backgrounds felt it was “best” for a woman to take her
husband’s name. More surprising to the researchers, half of them
supported a law actually requiring them to do so. Then again, half
also found it acceptable for a groom to take his bride’s last name, a
very rare occurrence. The study also noted that gay couples tended to
keep their original surnames.
Shonda Craft, 37, kept her name when she married 10 years ago.
Craft, an associate professor in the University of Minnesota’s Family
Social Science Department, said she had “already been in the
professional world, had things published under my name.” Also a
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Fax: 320-762-9062
Office Hours: Monday – Friday 8:30-4:30
House tours: Monday – Friday 9-3
Public Research Center: Monday – Friday 9-4
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and its people.
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Executive Assistant/
Volunteer Coordinator: Kim Dillon
Receptionist/Visitor Guide: Annie Skoglund
Research Librarian: Nancy Norling
Collections Technician: Mary Isaac
President: Jeff Schiffman
Vice-President: Pat Kennedy
Secretary: Jodi Hintzen
Directors: Jeanne Batesole
Lloyd Flaaten
Bruce Haugen
Jeff Karrow
Carol Neumann
Larry Skoglund
Kaye Zebarth
Spruce Hill Historic Church Site Liaison:
Joel Blank
Student Associates:
Kreg Anderson
Nick Ford
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December 7 Christmas Open House and Bake Sale
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