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Please join us for these events, or stop by any day to view the current art installation in the Kalscheur Family Foundation Community Education Room.

January - February 2021

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Jan. 19 - Feb 24: All day
When We Were Young:
PHOTO EXHIBIT


"When We Were Young: Kids of Dane County" is now showing in the Driftless Historium Walk-up Gallery (100 S 2nd St, Mt Horeb) through February 24, 2021.

This photo exhibit features 26 historic images from the collection of the Mount Horeb Area Historical Society. The outdoor, handicap accessible Walk-up Gallery, a COVID-safer option for soaking up some history and culture, is viewable daily.

For more information about or reprints of these or thousands of other Dane County photographs, call 608-437-6486 or email mthorebhistory@mhtc.net.


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Pick-up Fri, Feb. 5 (3-5pm) OR
Sat, Feb 6 (10am-12pm)
Sew East Snowman Craft Kits-to-go!


Driftless Historium spreads some Scandihoovian cheer with a FREE craft-to-go for kids and kids at heart!

Stop by the Driftless Historium (100 S 2nd St, Mt Horeb) on Friday, February 05 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm OR Saturday, February 06 from 10:00am to 12:00pm to pick up a FREE "Sew Easy Snowman" bagged craft kit.

Each craft bag will contain all materials needed to make your own super cute, oh-so-fun Sew Easy Snowman, as well as a weblink to a step-by-step YouTube tutorial.

Only 50 kits available on a first-come, first-serve basis. One per child. No holds or reservations will be taken.
(NOTE: If all kits are gone before Saturday's scheduled distribution, we will post this alert on Facebook and on the front door.)


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Tues. Feb. 9 at 6:30 PM

This is a free virtual event. Registration is required.
To sign up, email mthorebhistory@mhtc.net
(include “2-9 Troll Talk” in the subject line) or
call 608-437-6486 by Saturday, February 6.





The Driftless Historium hosts Portland, Oregon-based writer and researcher Britte Rasmussen Marsh on Tuesday, February 09 at 6:30pm for “Trolls of the Millennium: Resurgence and Redefinition” This free webinar is the second installment of a three-part series exploring the cultural and folk history of trolls.

For February’s virtual event, anticipate metamorphosis.

Beginning in the Modern Era, troll narratives sprung like dandelions from the chaotic soil of World War's I and II--as flowers or as weeds? As Scandinavian immigrants set sail for new beginnings on the North American continent, so too did their troll stowaways. Trolls globalized and commercialized. Sometimes their shape and form re-surged as nostalgically Nordic, other times they were redefined to reflect the cultural landscape of changing times. In any case, trolls dispersed along with the rapid expansion of media and found their germination through film, sculpture, marketing, gaming, and the arrival of the Internet Age. What does it mean now to be a 21st century troll? Why do trolls still resonate across demographics, and what's next?

In Mount Horeb, trolls are a quirky -and profitable- distillation of our Norwegian heritage. But, as out-of-towners ask as they purchase their souvenirs, what’s REALLY the deal with the trolls?
Marsh tackles this from a global perspective with her current project, WeTroll, a non-fiction book and podcast that explores the “troll diaspora” from Scandinavia to North America in order to ask “are trolls real, and have you encountered one?” She is also collaborating on an ongoing group translation of the 1978 text, “Eg Har Sett Huldra” (“I have seen Huldra”), an autobiographical account of a hunter-taxidermist’s encounter with a beautiful troll siren.
Her research tracks how trolls are woven throughout the recorded histories of Scandinavia, from the Vikings of Old Norse, to the conquests of St. Olav. Trolls, Marsh contends, are amongst us. And always have been. Some are fearsome, other comforting. They are ugly, beautiful, in the woods, in the towns, in the home and—sometimes—in us. Our collective reimagining and reinterpreting of the troll continues to this day.

Marsh asks, who are they? What do they want from us? Or do they just want to be left alone?


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Sat. Feb. 20 at 10:30AM
Seeds & Sprouts as Culture Keepers and Purveyors WEBINAR


Registration is required to attend; participants may choose to join via weblink or call-in number. To sign up, email mthorebhistory@mhtc.net (include “2-20 Seed Talk” in the subject line) or call 608-437-6486 by Wednesday, February 17.

The Mount Horeb Area Historical Society hosts folklorist and author Dr. Janet Gilmore on Saturday, February 20 at 10:30am for “Seeds & Sprouts as Culture Keepers and Purveyors.” This free virtual event will explore how Wisconsin’s First Peoples, immigrant settlers and new immigrant refugees all relied on seeds, cuttings and plants as vital cultural tools for perpetuating and adapting the familiar and known in new and changing locations.

As compelling illustrations, she will present real world Wisconsin examples drawn from her ethnographic fieldwork and teaching in Wisconsin, including families of Italian, Hmong, Ho-Chunk and Ethiopian backgrounds; with occasional reference to gardening families of mingled descents.

Dr. Janet Gilmore is recently retired from almost two decades as a professor of Landscape Architecture and Folklore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Here, she built foodways and food landscape study into her classes, including numerous field schools where students met and documented Wisconsin’s indigenous, old immigrant and new immigrant families.
This free virtual event is an educational initiative of the Driftless Seed Project, a partner program of the Mount Horeb Area Historical Society, Back Home Farms, and the Mount Horeb Area Community Garden, with start-up funding generously provided by the Rotary Club of Mount Horeb.

The Driftless Seed Project seeks to educate Southwestern Dane County about seed collecting, horticulture and sustainable practices, and work to identify and share locally cultivated seeds. We hope to keep our local seeds and varieties alive and vibrant –a true, literal living history of the bountiful and beautiful Driftless region.
To learn more, email mthorebhistory@mhtc.net or call 608-437-6486.


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