Programs

  • Program 1 [2021]

    COLLECTIONS PRESERVATION & EXHIBITS RCHS SERVES THOUSANDS OF RESEARCHERS ANNUALLY THROUGH ITS MARY LIVINGSTON GRIGGS & MARY GRIGGS BURKE RESEARCH CENTER. RCHS PRESERVES MORE THAN 4.5 MILLION ITEMS, PRIMARILY ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS, AND PROVIDES ACCESS TO THOUSANDS OF ARTIFACTS AND IMAGES THROUGH THE RESEARCH CENTER AND WEBSITE. IN THE PAST YEAR RCHS COMPLETED THE COUNCIL CHAMBER ART PROJECT, CREATED PERSISTENCE: CONTINUING THE STRUGGLE FOR SUFFRAGE AND EQUALITY, 1848-2020, BEGAN SCANNING ITS BUILDING PERMIT COLLECTION, AND ADDED HUNDREDS OF OBJECTS TO ITS COLLECTION.
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    Dates
    Jul 1, 2020 – Jun 30, 2021
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    990
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    $316.7K

  • Program 2 [2021]

    PUBLIC PROGRAMS & GIBBS FARM 36 HISTORY REVEALED PROGRAMS WERE HELD, VIRTUALLY ALL DELIVERED ONLINE FOLLOWING THE ONSET OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. AT GIBBS FARM ALMOST ALL ON- SITE SCHOOL TOURS WERE CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 AND STAFF CREATED DIGITAL TOUR PROGRAMS USED BY EDUCATORS FOR REMOTE LEARNING. IN A TYPICAL YEAR, GIBBS FARM SERVES MORE THAN 15,000 STUDENTS AND THOUSANDS OF EDUCATORS.
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    Dates
    Jul 1, 2020 – Jun 30, 2021
    Source
    990
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    $346.5K

  • Program 3 [2021]

    MAGAZINE AND PUBLICATIONS OUR SUMMER 2020 MAGAZINE FEATURED ST. PAUL MOVERS AND SHAKERS OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY, INCLUDING NELLIE FRANCIS AND THE MEMBERS OF THE EVERYWOMAN SUFFRAGE CLUB, PROGRESSIVE NOVELIST SINCLAIR LEWIS, AND THE FORWARD-THINKING CITY LIBRARIAN PERRIE JONES. THE FALL ISSUE TOLD THE TALE OF INTERMINABLE TURMOIL OVER THE VOTE IN WHITE BEAR TOWNSHIP, FOLLOWED BY THE TROUBLESOME TALE OF DR. CHARLES MALCHOW, AND A TRIBUTE TO ANTIN PAVLOS, A LITTLE-KNOWN UKRAINIAN-BORN SCULPTOR WHOSE WORK CAN STILL BE FOUND HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT IN RAMSEY COUNTY TODAY. IN WINTER 2021, WE CELEBRATED THE ST. PAUL HIKING CLUB, WHICH HAS BEEN TREKKING FOR A CENTURY. WE ALSO HIGHLIGHTED THE POIGNANT STORY OF HARRIETTE PETERSON AND HER CHILDHOOD ADVENTURES GROWING UP IN A TAR-PAPER SHACK ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. ANOTHER PIECE INTRODUCED THE NEW AND DIVERSE PUBLIC ART AT THE SAINT PAUL CITY HALL - RAMSEY COUNTY COURTHOUSE. FINALLY, OUR SPRING PUBLICATION, DUBBED THE HISTORY MYSTERY EDITION, INCLUDED TWO RELATED STORIES THAT PROVIDED NEW ANSWERS ABOUT A LOST BARRACKS AT FORT SNELLING AND THE SOLDIERS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH US INFANTRY REGIMENT WHO LIVED THERE. THE FINAL MYSTERY ATTEMPTED TO CORRECT THE OFTEN-TOLD LEGEND OF THE INFAMOUS PIG'S EYE PARRANT. ALL ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORY MAGAZINE ARE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE. THE PRESTIGIOUS VIRGINIA B. KUNZ AWARD WAS AWARDED TO THE AUTHORS OF THREE RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORY MAGAZINE ARTICLES IN 2020: OTERESA SWANSON, SYDNEY BEANE, AND WILLIAM BEANE FOR THE ARTICLE, "CHARLES AND ELAINE EASTMAN: THEIR YEARS IN ST. PAUL, 1893-1898;" OKRISTA FINSTAD HANSON AND KITTY GOGINS FOR TWO RELATED PIECES, "ONE HUNDRED YEARS SERVING NEW AMERICANS: THE CENTENNIAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE- AND "GROWING UP IN RAMSEY COUNTY: WITH A DASH OF FOREIGN SPICE;- AND OJEREMIAH E. ELLIS, AUTHOR OF "ST. PAUL'S DISTINCT LEADERSHIP TRADITION: A CENTURY OF THE STERLING CLUB." THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE KUNZ AWARD HAS BEEN AWARDED TO MORE THAN ONE AUTHOR. THE JUDGES BELIEVED THAT THESE WRITERS "ADDRESS NARRATIVES FROM THE PAST THAT ARE STILL RELEVANT AND BEING DISCUSSED TODAY. BY PRESENTING THE THREE GROUPS OF WRITERS TOGETHER, WE CAN BETTER UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES WE ARE FACING NOW: STOLEN LANDS AND MISTREATMENT OF NATIVE AMERICANS, STOLEN PEOPLE AND MISTREATMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICANS, AND THE UNTOLD STORIES OF IMMIGRANTS AND HOW THEIR STRUGGLES AND DIVERSITY HAVE MADE MINNESOTA STRONGER. THEY SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED TOGETHER IN PARALLEL." ALSO, DIANE TROUT-OERTEL RECEIVED THE 2020 MINNESOTA CHAPTER OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS DAVID STANLEY GEBHARD AWARD FOR HER ARTICLE, "EMMA F. BRUNSON: THE FIRST WOMAN REGISTERED AS AN ARCHITECT IN MINNESOTA." GREAT NORTHERN IRON: JAMES J. HILLS'S 109-YEAR MINING TRUST BY JAMES A. STOLPESTAD WAS PUBLISHED, AS WAS NEIGHBORHOOD ARCHITECTURE - IRVINE PARK, SAINT PAUL: A COLORING BOOK BY JEANNE KOSFELD AND RICHARD KRONICK. FINALLY, AN AMBITIOUS PODCAST SERIES CALLED MARCH OF THE GOVERNORS WAS LAUNCHED BY PAUL NELSON, A MEMBER OF THE RCHS EDITORIAL BOARD.
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    Dates
    Jul 1, 2020 – Jun 30, 2021
    Source
    990
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    $70.5K