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The Murray County Historical Society invites the public to attend its February Dinehart Lunchbox Lecture on Thursday, February 9, 2023, in the 4-H building on the Murray County Fairgrounds in Slayton starting at noon. This month’s lecture will feature David Pichaske who will present: “Finding Our Place – The Secret Places of SW Minnesota.”
Although Pichaske has taught at Southwest Minnesota State for over forty years now, his life has been a going into/ out of/into many places. He has learned from experience how to uncover place in Kenmore, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Springfield, Ohio, Peoria, Illinois, Poland, Germany, Mongolia . . . and Southwest Minnesota. Pichaske has written books on all those places, (including several on Southwest Minnesota, most recently “The Secret Places off Southwest Minnesota.” He has learned that place is identified by landscape/climate, population/ language, social groups, work/businesses, and artifacts. Pichaske will show-and-share some of the sources he has used for Secret Places and then, using pictures, will talk about place in that book: the natural landscape, the constructed landscape, towns, businesses, cemeteries, museums, etc. The cost of the talk is $3.00 per person or Historical Society members get in free. Attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch. Refreshments and light snacks are provided. This lecture will not be live streamed on Facebook. If you missed our past lectures, they are still available to view on the Murray County Historical Museum Facebook page. For more information about this and other museum events, call 507836-6533 or email museum@co.murray.mn.us.
