Year 2010 Programs

You are invited!
First Saturday of each month.  1:30 PM 
"LDS Church, Mason City, Iowa

2010

December 4, 2010

Marie Thompson presented the program "This and That". The program included highlights of her travels during September and October.

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November 6, 2010

Carlyle Merritt (from Mason City) was the guest speaker. He presented the program "THE VISUAL APPROACH"  
"The Scrap Booking Approach" for Recording Your Family Genealogy. 

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October 2, 2010

Max Handley, who gave a wonderful talk on Marble Rock and the Historical Society. They have 3 buildings on main street for use as museums, he also showed slides.

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AUGUST 7, 2010
Back in Time
Linda Hughes, who came in costume, and spoke on Carrie Chapman Catt, Who was an activist for women's rights.

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June 5, 2010
"Today's Quilts; Tomorrow's Heirlooms"
History of Quilting and Feedsacks, Now and Then was presented by
 Linda Jacobs 

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May 1, 2010
"The Early Depression Dilemmas of Rural Iowa, October 1929- November 1932" presented by Lisa L. Ossian; program sponsored by Humanities Iowa

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March 6, 2010
Terry Harrison, archivist for the Mason City Public Library, presented a PowerPoint program a few interesting events in Mason City's history from the building of two settlements to combining them to become Masonville and later Mason City. Forward from that were murders, political arguments, scandals, street fairs. He recommended reading historical newspapers for insights into daily life in Mason City in the late 1800's right down to a graphic description of the embalming process.

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The February 6th program was presented by Jerry Krieger.  The three parts of his presentation included the history of how Germans (all from one village in Germany) came to populate a village called Norka in Russia, their emigration to the United States and the reasons for it (mostly in Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, etc.), and those German immigrants in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa.

Our Past is Prologue