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Maple Syrup - It’s History in Our Area and Our Future!
   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 Westonka Horticultural Society is joining the Westonka Historical Society in presenting a program on Maple Syruping and how it is done.

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?
• 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?
Contact the WHS at 952.472.9800.
 





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Two opportunities for new books!

Book cover 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

Call: 952.472.9800 with information about order!


Minnetonka Memories Book cover Minnetrista Memories
And 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. 
$25.00
plus shipping and tax

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.





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