Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: March 22, 2012
What team won the first professional basketball tournament in 1939? What high school team won the 1960 Minnesota State High School League Tournament? The March 21 Minneapolis Star Tribune featured highlights of past state high school basketball tournaments with special emphasis on small town Edgerton’s championship victory over a team from a much larger school [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: December 28, 2011
Help! I am a teacher and would like my students to look in newspapers for what happened on their birthday. Does anyone know where we can go so they can actually see the newspaper, like microfiche? Contemporary newspaper archives and digitized copies of newspapers published before the Internet make the popular “Today in History” or “What [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: November 20, 2011
An evening out for pizza at a former blacksmith shop (the buildings limestone shell was built in 1857) got me thinking about a newspaper photo of my great-grandfather, Henry Einhorn, visiting with blacksmith William Benz. Located on Winona’s east end, Benz Blacksmith was Winona’s last surviving blacksmith shop. The April 5, 1954 Winona Republican Herald said a Benz worked in [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: October 30, 2011
Looking for more information about Charley Goddard and Company K in the Civil War? Charley, the young soldier in Gary Paulsen’s young adult novel A Soldier’s Heart is mentioned in an August post, Music and letters connect us with the Civil War. Here are more resources about Charley and the Minnesota 1st regiment. Winona County [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: October 7, 2011
I remember being all dressed up in my angel wings for a school pageant and in come’ One Shot; he got our attention took his photo and was on his way.” Kathy Greden, Winona Photographer Friends and I had fun remembering One Shot’s Friday night appearances at area basketball games. He came in wearing with [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: August 29, 2011
Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! Musicians from Wisconsin’s First Brigade Band brought 150 year-old Civil War brass instruments, a drum, stories, and songs to the Winona County History Center and made the Civil War come alive at an August program. We heard the sounds and stories of brass instruments representing over 200 in a collection at a [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: August 20, 2010
Shakespeare in Winona! 2004: I was quite excited to learn a professional theatre group was forming right here in our island city along the Mississippi. I added links to our district web site volunteered in the costume shop, ushered at performances and delivered brochures to the schools. I fully intended not to do any volunteer [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: June 23, 2010
We have all asked students “What interests you?” What interests you often the toughest part when beginning a research process. If we’re passionate about a topic, or perhaps only interested, the “information finding” process is fun. What are the facts behind the novels “A Flickering Light, and Absence soGreat? by Oregon author Jane Kirkpatrick? Kirkpatrick [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: April 25, 2010
Discovering the “facts” behind historical fiction captures my attention. When I read Jamie Ford’s The Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet I began searching Ansel Adams Manzanar photos to find photos representative of scenes described in the Minidoka internment camp portion of the novel. I got excited when I learned the Hotel is [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: April 23, 2010
Amazing. I have just viewed the Draft of the National Educational Technology Plan. A project I coordinated in 1995 is cited on page 30. A group of teachers and I worked with a history professor and the County Historical Society to create the content about demographic groups in Winona, Minnesota. A local web site [...]
