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Maple Syrup - It’s History in Our
Area and Our Future!
The Westonka Horticultural Society is joining the Westonka Historical
Society in presenting a program on Maple Syruping and how it is done.or What Your Tree Can Do For You! Spring is the Time for Maple Syrup Saturday - February 6, 2010 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Gillespie Center - Mound, MN Free to WHS members The Historical Society will feature a talk by Rex Alwin about his family’s maple syrup business. There will be "syrup tasting" for everyone at the program. The Horticultural Society will feature information on how to tap trees and turn it into syrup. And there will be information for you if you are interested in starting the procedure. • Do you have a question you’d like to ask
about starting to tap your maple trees?
Contact the WHS at 952.472.9800.• Do you have an experience you’d like to share about your maple syrup operation? • Do you have pictures or examples of equipment that you would like to share? Other area historical societies: Carver County Historical
Society
Chaska Historical Society Chanhassen Historical Society Deephaven Historical Society Excelsior-Lake Minnetonka Historical Society Great Northern Railway Historical Society Hennepin History Museum Hopkins Historical Society Minnetonka Historical Society Richfield Historical Society Scott County Historical Society Wayzata Historical Society Western Hennepin County Pioneer Association |
Two opportunities
for new books!
Classroom Voices
Classroom Voices A new book by Pamela .J. Myers, sponsored
in part by a grant from Minnesota Historical Society & Westonka
Historical Society. A history of voices, photos, memories and reflections
of early school days in western Hennepin County, ending at Mound Consolidated
High School from the 1850s to 1950.
$26.00
plus shipping and tax
Minnetrista MemoriesAnd a second book we have just finished
reprinting, with several items added, is Mildred Krenke Banks’ book
Minnetrista Memories.
Beginning in the late 1800s with descriptions of her grandparents’ lives through her personal recollections of growing up and graduating from Mound Consolidated High School in 1921, Mrs. Banks presents the reader with a vivid insight into life in the early days of the Minnetrista area.
We also have other books, puzzles, notebooks, t-shirts, Island Park reunion CDs, 2010 calendar and other historical items for sale. The income from these sales help with the expenses of the storage of our collection, the printing of new items and the cost of programs.
Beginning in the late 1800s with descriptions of her grandparents’ lives through her personal recollections of growing up and graduating from Mound Consolidated High School in 1921, Mrs. Banks presents the reader with a vivid insight into life in the early days of the Minnetrista area.
$25.00
plus shipping and taxWe also have other books, puzzles, notebooks, t-shirts, Island Park reunion CDs, 2010 calendar and other historical items for sale. The income from these sales help with the expenses of the storage of our collection, the printing of new items and the cost of programs.
To view the images that WHS has submitted to the
Minnesota Digital Library
Minnesota Reflections
website, go to:
http://reflections.mndigital.org/
To order copies of these images, call 952.472.9800 or email
The Westonka Historical Society’s Andrews
Sisters Memorabilia
Goes to St. Paul
Exhibit displayed
in the Minnesota Historical Society’s next exhibit, “The Greatest
Generation” Read more: greatestgeneration.html