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SUMMARY:Genealogy Club Workshop
DESCRIPTION:A genealogy workshop is scheduled for Monday\, August 4 at the Lyon County Museum.\n1:00 PM to 2:00 PM: Introduction to DNA Match Sorting2:00 PM to 3:00 PM: Speaker available to attendees3:00 PM to 4:00 PM: Understanding DNA cMs and How to Determine Relationships\n\n\nIntroduction to DNA Match Sorting\n\nThis workshop will give an overview of DNA Match sorting and genetic inheritance when seeking to connect DNA Matches with common ancestors; and the ethics associated with such discoveries. \nUnderstanding DNA cMs and how to determine relationships \nThis workshop will give an overview of working with DNA Match’s shared cMs to help genealogists discover how DNA Matches may be related.  Discussion will focus on how to interpret cMs to indicate how someone could or could not be related\, the probabilities\, and how their shared DNA could help place them in one’s family tree. \n\n\nAbout the Speaker:Sarah Lockwood is a proud Minnesotan\, with ancestry from both an adopted family and a birth family. Forensic genealogy has been a personal journey for Sarah. As an adoptee\, she used what she learned about forensic DNA matching to find her own birth mother and father! She turned her love of genealogy into a professional business. She began AncestryHelp in 2022\, as a small business\, to help others discover their family history one ancestor at a time and to help fellow family genealogists strengthen their research skills. Her two favorite projects to work on are writing family narratives and teaching research skills. Sarah has earned certificates in Genealogical Research from Boston University\, Investigative Genetic Genealogy from Ramapo College\, and has completed a ProGen Study Group.
URL:https://lyoncomuseum.org/event/genealogy-club-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Lyon County Historical Society Museum\, 301 West Lyon Street\, Marshall\, MN\, 56258\, United States
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SUMMARY:Monthly Veterans Coffee
DESCRIPTION:Monthly veterans coffees are the 1st Tuesday of the month at the Lyon County Museum\, 301 W Lyon St\, Marshall. The monthly coffee is open to all veterans. Enjoy coffee\, water\, juice\, and treats while visiting with fellow veterans in the ice cream shop at the museum. For more information\, contact the museum at 507-537-6580
URL:https://lyoncomuseum.org/event/monthly-veterans-coffee-12/
LOCATION:Lyon County Historical Society Museum\, 301 West Lyon Street\, Marshall\, MN\, 56258\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reflections Series: "The War at Home: Minnesota during the Great War\, 1914-1920" Program
DESCRIPTION:Greg Gaut will present on his book\, “The War at Home: Minnesota during the Great War\, 1914-1920” at the Lyon County Museum\, 301 West Lyon Street\, Marshall on Tuesday\, October 7 at 6:30 PM. \nAmericans went to war in 1917 not only against Germany but also against each other.  The controversial decision to send an army to France came during a contentious time when farmers and workers challenged the wealthy\, African Americans struggled against Jim Crow and lynchings\, women campaigned for suffrage\, and millions crusaded against alcohol.  Greg Gaut will introduce his new book\, The War at Home\, which focuses on the lives of individual Minnesotans to tell the dramatic story of this period\, when the North Star State experienced bitter polarization\, nativism\, flagrant disregard for democratic norms\, and intense\, occasionally violent\, confrontations. The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety ruled the state with an iron hand during the war. Led by John F. McGee\, the commission pursued a “loyalty” campaign against trade unions\, the Nonpartisan League\, the Socialist Party\, and the Industrial Workers of the World. McGee’s most prominent adversary was Charles A. Lindbergh Sr.\, whom the Nonpartisan League nominated to challenge the governor in the fiercely contested 1918 primary.  Although Minnesota’s home front experience was the product of a particular confluence of events and personalities\, it raises issues about how democracy can give way to authoritarianism when economic inequality\, anti-immigrant nationalism\, and racism rule the day. \nGreg Gaut is an historian whose career has included two decades of teaching at a liberal arts college and a decade of work as an historic preservation consultant primarily preparing National Register of Historic Places nominations around the state of Minnesota. With his wife and co-author Marsha Neff\, he is a frequent contributor to Minnesota History\, and two of their articles won the David Gebhard Award for the best article on Minnesota’s built environment. A lover of libraries\, he published Laird’s Legacy: A History of the Winona Public Library and Reinventing the People’s Library\, a  history of St. Paul’s Arlington Hills Public Library which is now the East Side Freedom Library. His article on a World War I espionage case\, “Hardware Store Sedition: The Case of Charles W. Anding\,” won the Solon J. Buck Award for the best article in Minnesota History for 2020. He holds a doctorate in Modern European and Russian history from the University of Minnesota. \nThe program is free and open to the public.  Light refreshments will be served.  Programs at the Lyon County Museum are sponsored by members.  For more information\, contact the Lyon County Museum at 507-537-6580 or director@lyoncomuseum.org
URL:https://lyoncomuseum.org/event/reflections-series-the-war-at-home-minnesota-during-the-great-war-1914-1920-program/
LOCATION:Lyon County Historical Society Museum\, 301 West Lyon Street\, Marshall\, MN\, 56258\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reflections Series: "The (Not So) Invisible Empire: The KKK in Southwest Minnesota in the 1920s" Program
DESCRIPTION:Anita Talsma Gaul will present on\, “The (Not So) Invisible Empire: The KKK in Southwest Minnesota in the 1920s” at the Lyon County Museum\, 301 West Lyon Street\, Marshall on Tuesday\, October 14 at 6:30 PM. \nThe 1920s was a period of rapid change\, causing many Americans to feel a sense of nostalgia and fear – nostalgia for an idealized\, simpler past and fear that America was in a state of moral decline. This prompted the rise of the Ku Klux Klan\, particularly in the Upper Midwest. Klan activity in Southwest Minnesota began in 1922\, peaked in 1924\, and virtually disappeared by 1927. Dozens of cross burnings occurred\, but there were also Klan rallies\, parades\, picnics\, and meetings. \nWhat attracted rural Minnesotans to this organization? How and why did it become popular in this area? And what accounts for its sudden demise? The brief but intense presence of the KKK in Southwest Minnesota is a hidden chapter in the region’s history and one that merits closer scrutiny. \nAnita Talsma Gaul is a History Instructor at Minnesota West Community & Technical College in Worthington\, MN. She is the author of several local history publications including The Women of Southwest Minnesota and the Great War (published by the Society for Local & Regional History) and Homely Girls and Pretty Babies: A History of the Murray County Fair (published by the Murray County Agricultural Society). She is also the author of seven MNopedia articles\, a digital encyclopedia published by the Minnesota Historical Society. \nThe program is free and open to the public.  Light refreshments will be served.  Programs at the Lyon County Museum are sponsored by members.  For more information\, contact the Lyon County Museum at 507-537-6580 or director@lyoncomuseum.org
URL:https://lyoncomuseum.org/event/reflections-series-the-not-so-invisible-empire-the-kkk-in-southwest-minnesota-in-the-1920s-program/
LOCATION:Lyon County Historical Society Museum\, 301 West Lyon Street\, Marshall\, MN\, 56258\, United States
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SUMMARY:Halloween Family Fun Day at the Museum
DESCRIPTION:Halloween Family Fun Day at the Museum is Saturday\, October 25 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM at the Lyon County Museum\, 301 W Lyon St\, Marshall.  Free event.  All kids dressed in costume will receive a treat bag. Activities include: Pumpkin Scavenger Hunt\, Crafts\, Coloring Activities\, and $2.00 Orange or Root Beer Floats in the museum’s ice cream shop.  For more information: 507-537-6580
URL:https://lyoncomuseum.org/event/halloween-family-fun-day-at-the-museum-4/
LOCATION:Lyon County Historical Society Museum\, 301 West Lyon Street\, Marshall\, MN\, 56258\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reflections Series: American Immigration\, the Saga of Ellis Island" Program
DESCRIPTION:Frank Sachs will present “American Immigration\, The Saga of Ellis Island” at the Lyon County Museum\, 301 West Lyon Street\, Marshall on Monday\, October 27 at 6:30 PM.\n\nWhere we have come from and the story of America immigration. Because the focus has largely been on the story of Western European immigration\, prior to the 21st Century it has often focused on the unique role Ellis Island and so will we\, as we discuss how it served as Gateway to America during the latter half of 19th and early 20th Century during the heights of pre Great Depression emigration when a record number of immigrants came to the United States.\n\nFrank Sachs is a retired twin cities educator with a BS in American History and a MS in Guidance and Counseling. He has taught in both public and private schools for 40 plus years. The last 37 of those years were at The Blake School in Minneapolis where he was a senior administrator and taught in the Social Studies department. During the majority of those years Frank taught primarily AP US Government and Politics\, US Constitutional Law and American History while serving as the Director of College Counseling.\n\nThe program is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Programs at the Lyon County Museum are sponsored by members. For more information\, contact the Lyon County Museum at 507-537-6580
URL:https://lyoncomuseum.org/event/reflections-series-american-immigration-the-saga-of-ellis-island-program/
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