Kathy Thompson will present her book, 鈥淓vergreen Home: Homesteading in Hubbard County, Minnesota in the 1800s,鈥� Tuesday, Sept. 17 at the Headwaters Center for Lifelong Learning (HCLL).
The program from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Event Room in Park Rapids is open to the public, free of charge and handicap accessible.
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According to a press release, Thompson says her book 鈥渋s based on authentic journal entries of my husband鈥檚 great-grandmother when she homesteaded our place鈥� and describes 鈥渢he daily living and adversities the pioneers endured while coming to this vast wilderness on the Hubbard Prairie.鈥�
Attendees will learn about the long, difficult journey settlers experienced to get to Hubbard County from southern Minnesota, the release says. When choosing tracts of land to homestead, they avoided lakeshores because those tracts would take away from their ability to farm the land 鈥� with no idea that within a century, the lakeshore parcels would be sought-after for recreational use.
鈥淗ubbard was called Manter,鈥� Thompson says in the release. 鈥淪hell City is on the Shell River. It had many clamshells. In fact, there was a button factory there 鈥� buttons made from shells.鈥�
The program will include photos from Hubbard County buildings, settlers and events during the years 1880-1900.
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