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Changing the conversation to what we can do

by David Grabitske on February 15, 2011 · No Comments · in Exhibits, Fundraising

Dennis Anderson’s “Memo to whiners: cut it out” (Star Tribune 2/10/2011) mirrored a post here on Why so bleak? Anderson suggests that Minnesotans have a penchant for pessimism even though the state in general has a solid track record. It was that tendency to go for the “low-hanging fruit” of negativity that often hinders local [...]

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Role for local history during church closures

by David Grabitske on October 18, 2010 · 8 Comments · in Collections, Exhibits, Local History Standards

News over the past weekend that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis would restructure it parishes by closing or merging congregations with others brought to mind all of the same challenges of relocating membership, maintenance costs, manpower shortages, and more long faced by rural churches of many denominations. The news and reaction [...]

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Electronic Access for Rural Minnesota

by David Grabitske on August 9, 2010 · 1 Comment · in Collections, Information Technology

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced $43 million for six Minnesota rural communications systems to upgrade service to broadband, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press on Thursday August 5, 2010. While history has been and continues to be preserved in many parts of the state, faster access to that history now appears to be [...]

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America’s Great Outdoors

by David Grabitske on August 6, 2010 · No Comments · in Marketing, Nonprofit Issues

This last Wednesday, local history staffers attended a public input meeting at the University of Minnesota on America’s Great Outdoors. This is a national initiative looking at the legacy of places, one part of which are historic. The idea of the meeting was introduced with a short film that recalled President Theodore Roosevelt’s 1908 call [...]

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