Red River Roots: Lise Erdrich
HCSCC is excited to announce that we will be hosting Native American writer Lise Erdrich. Lise is from Wahpeton, North Dakota. Lise will illustrate the connection to Clay County of Native American people and touch on the McCumber Agreement or Ten Cent Treaty and boarding schools to explain the diaspora of the Metis people.
Kade Ferris Lecture
Kade Ferris will be speaking about the concept behind colorization as a means of humanizing historical American Indians, the idea of legitimacy (e.g. the use of studio-owned props in photos), and the method of choosing what colors are used in colorization, based on historical and cultural understanding of regalia.
Bud Larson and the Fargo Spelemannslag in the Hopperstad Stave Church
Guy Paulson's beautiful Hardanger Fiddle is one of the gems of the display of carvings at the Hjemkomst Center. Guy suggested having a button to press for people to hear what a Hardanger Fiddle sounds like, but he does not play the fiddle himself, so he asked Bud if he would record a tune.
That’s where the concert came from. We thought: Hey, if Bud is coming into town to play Guy’s fiddle, why not record several tunes? And what better place to record than in the church? And if Bud is playing in the church, why not invite a few friends to enjoy it? And let’s invite the Fargo Spelemannslag to play, too!
Visit our youtube channel to listen to the whole concert and check out his Hardanger Fiddle on display at the Hjemkomst Center in Moorhead, Minnesota.
Live with Restream
Live with Restream
How To Talk with a Veteran
How To Talk with a Veteran
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 | 6-8PM
Hjemkomst Center
Zoom, Facebook Live, YouTube
What is a Refugee?
What is a Refugee?
Tuesday, October 19, 6:30-8PM
Zoom, Facebook Live
Join us on Tuesday, October 19, when Darci Asche, HCSCC member and longtime development director of the New American Consortium for Wellness and Empowerment, explores the history and rhetoric of our current refugee crisis. With more than 85 million people currently displaced around the world, including more than 25 million people with refugee status, Darci discusses the reasons these people have fled their homes, who they are, and how our communities have responded to them.
Audience members are encouraged to submit questions throughout the presentation via Zoom or Facebook. Darci will address them during a moderated Q&A period at the end.
Passcode: Home
"What is a Refugee?" is offered in conjunction with our current exhibition from Studio Art Quilt Associates, "Forced To Flee."
A History of Woodland School
A History of Woodland School
"Practically Like Being Homeschooled"
Tuesday, October 12, 6:30-8PM
Zoom, Facebook Live
Rollag's District 3 "Woodland" School was both the first and last rural school in Clay County, Minnesota, opening in 1896 and closing in 1961. As a result, its history offers a valuable perspective of rural education in the Red River Valley. In 2021 HCSCC hired Steve Martens to conduct research on the school in an effort to better determine its eligibility for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Martens, an architectural historian, emeritus professor, and president of the State Historical Society of North Dakota, will share his research on the project in a multimedia presentation.
Audience members are encouraged to submit questions throughout the presentation via Zoom or Facebook. Steve will address them during a moderated Q&A period at the end.
Passcode: Woodland
This project was made possible in part by the people of Minnesota through a grant funded by an appropriation to the Minnesota Historical Society from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
On Friday we open our new major exhibition, "Ihdago Manipi: Clay County at 150." Join us at the Hjemkomst Center to see it yourself or join us online at Exhibition Opening: Ihdago Manipi for a brief, digital tour.
"Ihdago Manipi: Clay County at 150" will be on exhibition at the Hjemkomst Center through December 31, 2023.
Felix Battles
Felix Battles
Tuesday, August 17, 7:00PM
Zoom, Facebook Live
Join us as HCSCC Programming Director Markus Krueger explores the fascinating life of Felix Battles. Battles was born into slavery in the 1840s on a cotton plantation near Memphis, Tennessee, and sometime between 1856-1860, he gained his freedom. On August 8, 1864, he joined the Union Army from Minnesota and served with the 18th United States Colored Infantry, including during the decisive Battle of Nashville in his home state of Tennessee. He arrived in Moorhead shortly after the city was founded in the 1870s and lived on the south side of the city with his wife Kate, her family, and their two children until his death in 1907. He was known as the "Pioneer Barber of the Red River Valley."
Audience members are encouraged to submit questions throughout the presentation via Zoom chat or Facebook comments. Markus will address them during a moderated Q&A period at the end.
ASL interpretation will be provided.
Passcode: Felix
Moorhead's WWI POW Camp
Moorhead's WWII POW Camp
Tuesday, July 20, 7:00PM
Zoom, Facebook Live
During World War II, farmers in the Red River Valley faced a severe labor shortage due to the number of Americans sent into war. German prisoners of war offered a solution to this problem. HCSCC Senior Archivist Mark Peihl explores the stories of Algona Branch Camp One, a prison labor camp that took form in an old onion warehouse on the edge of Moorhead during the summers of 1944 and '45.
Audience members are encouraged to submit questions throughout the presentation via Zoom or Facebook. Mark will address them during a Q&A period at the end.
Passcode: Algona
Moorhead's Wild Murie Brothers
"Atomic Alert!" Opens Early
Civil Liberties and the Great War in Clay County
The WWI Letters of the Masterson Brothers
Trygve Olson: Cartooning 35 Odd Years
HCSCC: Cliff Hitterdal & the Meuse-Argonne
Eugene Studlien's Homecoming
Solar Grasshoppers Descending on the Comstock House
Clay County, MN, in 1917 (An Intro to 'War, Flu, & Fear')
Local History, Auto Polo, & Giving Hearts
HCSCC on "Fulfillment of Creation" and "The Saint John's Bible"
Parlor Talks: WWI and Clay County
Fargo Interstate Fair, 1917
Moorhead Streetcars, 1936
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