The Murray County Historical Society is having its 2026 Annual Meeting at the Currie Municipal Building at 2 p.m. on Sunday Oct. 18. Refreshments will be provided.
Dr. Anita Gaul, will give her program “The Road to 1776.” Gaul is an historian who currently teaches at Minnesota West Community & Technical College and whose work focuses on local and regional history.
Her published works include The Women of Southwest Minnesota and the Great War (2018), Homely Girls and Pretty Babies: A History of the Murray County Fair (2013), and “Living in Perfect Harmony: A Multiethnic Catholic Parish on the Minnesota Prairie, 1881-1910” in the Journal of American Ethnic History (2010). She was named the 2026 Minnesota West Outstanding Educator and is the winner of the 2026 Minnesota Board of Trustees Educator of the Year Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Please note that the Vikings are not playing on Oct. 18, so you will have no excuse to miss the meeting.
If you have any questions, please contact the museum at 507836-6533 or [email protected].
