One of the biggest hurdles to overcome in genealogy is the seemingly illegible handwriting in our ancestors’ records. Professional genealogist Pam Vestal will address that challenge when she presents the webinar “What the Heck Does that Say? Overcoming Difficult Handwriting” for the St. Cloud Area Genealogists on Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 7 p.m. at […]
The Fox House. Clitty Lake. A gas station that doubled as a home, office, hotel, railway station and general store. Discover all this and more during the Oak Savanna Park History Scavenger Hunt! Bring your history detective skills to this free, self-guided, family-friendly event. Explore a beautiful park setting while learning more about architecture and […]
Memory Writers is a writing group that meets twice a month on the first and third Tuesdays at 10:00 am. The group develop topics to write about and in turn […]
Meeting Overview: Although the Civil War unquestionably led to the freeing of enslaved African Americans, there is ongoing debate in popular culture about whether we should think of is as […]
Join the museum's own Amy Degerstrom and Caitlin Carlson as they use the collection of the Stearns History Museum to tell the "brief" story of how what we wear underneath […]
Memory Writers is a writing group that meets twice a month on the first and third Tuesdays at 10:00 am. The group develop topics to write about and in turn […]
"Five Types of German Genealogy Documents and What You Can Find in Each" with Katherine Schober. Have you struggled to find records of your German ancestors in Europe? Professional genealogist […]
Honors students from the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University have spent the last semester researching this neglected topic in the Stearns History Museum Archives, and in other […]
Change of Plans! Our May 18th Living Memory Event is no longer on the calendar. (We know you were excited–and so were we–but sometimes the best-laid plans don't make history […]
Whippersnapper Hour allows kids to learn about history in a fun, hands-on environment! At this month’s Whippersnapper Hour, we will perform and record our own radio play! Students will learn […]
