Pie Fundraiser for Maxwell Museum - Order Deadline November 9, 2024

Needing pies for your upcoming holidays? We partner with Center Grove Orchard in Cambridge each year to fundraise for the museum. Delicious desserts include pumpkin pie, apple pie, apple crisp, and new this year pumpkin roll!!!! All made from scratch and local! Don’t forget their hearty chicken pot pie (1-2 servings). If you are interested please follow this link to order online or reach out to Kelly (515-450-3529) to place an order. For an additional $10 donation Kelly (treasurer) will meet any of you from here to Story City :)

Please note: pies MUST be picked up in Maxwell on November 25 from 4-6, unless you are going with the delivery donation, and payments must be received by 11/9. Thank you for your support and happy holidays!

Story County Historical Alliance Spring Meeting - April 11, 2024 in Colo

                                     

Story County Historical Alliance Annual Spring Meeting to be held at the Colo Community Center (309 Main Street) at 10:00 AM, Thursday, April 11th. Come earlier for coffee, and see the Colo Museum at the Reed Station afterwards. 

 Then if so inclined, have lunch at Niland's Cafe!

Story City Winter Dinner & Presentation - Postponed to January 25, 2024

 

Updated - Now January 25

 

We hope you can join us at Fairview Lodge on Thursday, January 25. A free-will donation soup and chili dinner will be provided, including mild and spicy chili, cheeseburger chowder, minestrone, baked potato soup, bread, and desserts. 

Following the meal will be a presentation by Jennifer Kovarik, Collection Manager at the Vesterheim Museum:

A Dream of Milk and Honey: Sharing Immigration Stories Through Animation. Learn how Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum used objects and stories in its collection as the basis for an international partnership to create a stop-motion animated film made by students on both sides of the Atlantic. The film project, which included partners in the United States, Norway, and Italy, was part of a larger program to promote conversations about and encourage empathy for enduring opportunities and challenges of immigration world-wide. Over 200 students used 19th century Norwegian immigration stories, objects, and historic photographs from the collections of Vesterheim Museum and cultural organizations in Fredrikstad, Norway, to inspire the film’s storyline, characters, and scenery and to build empathy for contemporary immigrants and migrants in the U.S. and Europe. Learn about the risks and rewards of navigating this collaboration on two different continents in both physical and digital spaces and enjoy viewing the 25-minute film.

Dinner will be served from 5:30-6:15pm with the presentation immediately following.