Saturday, November 14, 2020: 10:00 am

Join Dave Nichols, Rice County Historical Society Curator, to learn how to preserve your family archives on Saturday, November 14, 2020, at 10 am online.

This program will focus on preserving your family history, both digital and physical. Nichols will touch on the best materials to use to keep your photographs and documents safe, as well as ways to properly store digitally scanned photographs and documents. Additionally, he will provide background on the kind of information most people forget to include for future generations, and how to capture your family history in a digital format.

Dave Nichols has 5 years of experience in Collections and Preservation. He received his Master’s degree in History and Museum Studies from Minnesota State University, Mankato. He has worked for Steele County and Goodhue County Historical Societies before becoming the Curator at Scott County Historical Society in 2018. He has worked in the University Archives at MSU and has been an advocate for digital collections.  He joined the Rice County Historical Society as its Curator/Assistant to the Executive Director in March 2020.

This program will be held online using Google Meet at: https://meet.google.com/rvv-dmta-zjv .

You can also find that address on the museum’s website,  http://rchistory.org.  For more information, please contact the museum at 507-332-2121.

Please join us for this online program, “Wings and Writing: Using Aviation as a Theme” with Lisa M. Bolt Simons on Thursday, October 22, 2020, at 7 pm.

Simons, an avid researcher, has three projects she’s working on that have a common thread: aviation. She’s been working on a book about her dad, a USAF Thunderbird pilot who was killed on December 21, 1972, during a test flight, for almost 20 years. Her most recent projects include a young adult novel about a set of twin teenagers who lose their dad in a plane crash and a screenplay about the WASP, includingFaribault’s own Liz Wall Strohfus. Lisa spent 25 years in the education field as a teacher and Literacy Coach before shifting to full-time writing. You can find more information at www.lisamboltsimons.com.

This program will be held using Google Meet. To reserve a virtual seat and get an email with the link to the program, please contact the museum at 507-332-2121 or email us at rchs@rchistory.org.

You can also access the program by clicking on the link below:
https://meet.google.com/ppi-vmyo-tpe

Or, if you prefer to call in with your phone to the number below:
Phone Numbers (US) +1 929-324-1697‬ PIN: ‪904 238 498#

Please note, these two links will not be active until 15 minutes before the program begins.

Saturday, August 22 – 10am to 2:30pm

Join the Rice County Historical Society for an outside tour of 7 historic sites around the county. Volunteers will be at each site to share its history and answer questions.

This is a family-friendly and COVID-friendly event. All vehicles (cars, vans, motorcycles, even busses) are welcome. $20/vehicle – no matter how many people are in the vehicle. 

To make it fun, we’ve added a poker-run-like game where each car will get one playing card when they stop at each historic site, and then participants will turn in the best 5-card hand of their 7 cards. The top 5 hands will receive a prize. (To be announced on Facebook and on our Website by 7 pm that night.)

Participants should start this 2-hour tour anytime between 10 am and noon. Poker hands should be turned in no later than 2:30.

Please note: due to Covid-19, we will not be touring the interior of buildings. 

For more information and/or to register please call or email the museum at 507-332-2121 or rchs@rchistor