All things rhubarb and more at museum’s Rhubarb Fest
By Sue Sitter - | Jun 26, 2021
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Volunteers Margie Heilman, left, and DeDe Bischoff stand ready to serve up samples of more than 20 assorted rhubarb treats at the Prairie Village Museum’s Rhubarb Fest June 20.
A celebration of all things rhubarb attracted residents from Pierce County and points beyond to the Prairie Village Museum Sunday, June 20.
The museum’s annual Rhubarb Fest featured goodies from rhubarb mini cheesecakes to rhubarb ice cream and rhubarb wine, all served in sample plates of six for five dollars.
“We’ve had quite a few people today,” Museum Director Jennifer Willis said. “We even had to get more food – more burgers and hot dogs. We had quite a turnout for rhubarb dishes today. It was really a wide variety.”
Visitors to the Prairie Village Museum had an opportunity June 5 to have their portraits made using a process more familiar to their ancestors in the mid-1800s.
Unique art, activities set for Prairie Village Museum’s season opening
By Sue Sitter - | Apr 24, 2021
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A piece from Shane Balkowitsch’s Northern Plains Native American Wet Plate Retrospective hangs in the gallery at the Prairie Village Museum in Rugby.
Art celebrating North Dakota’s Native American culture will be on display to welcome visitors to the Prairie Village Museum’s opening day May 1 at 9 a.m.
Photographs created by North Dakota artist Shane Balkowitsch using a traditional wet collodion process will hang on the walls of the museum’s gallery. The process dates back to the mid-1800s and was used by photographers such as Matthew Brady, who brought it to Civil War battlefields.
Prairie Village Museum plans Masked Ball
By Sue Sitter - | Feb 27, 2021
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Prairie Village Museum Executive Director Jennifer Willis holds a custom-engraved charcuterie board. The boards will be sold with an assortment of meats and cheeses at the museum’s Masked Ball fundraiser March 5 from 5-8 p.m.
Prairie Village Museum will offer a selection of meats, cheeses and more arranged on custom charcuterie boards at a fundraiser in the Dakota Farms yellow banquet room Friday, March 5, from 5-8 p.m.
The event, titled “The Masked Ball,” will feature live-streamed music and an opportunity for diners to use their artistic skills and win prizes as well.
CVB honors volunteer gardeners
By Sue Sitter - | Dec 19, 2020
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Rugby Chamber of Commerce/CVB Executive Director Laurie Odden, left, poses with her mother, Angie Busch, center, and Diane Dufner. Dufner and Busch received recognition for their work on flowerbeds and shrubs near the Northern Lights Tower.
Although frost covered the shrubs and dormant flowerbeds at the Northern Lights Tower, Diane Dufner and Angie Busch happily talked gardening when they received recognition for their work on the area Dec. 11 at the Rugby Chamber of Commerce office.
Dufner has made the flowerbeds surrounding the Rugby Convention and Visitors Bureau information kiosk and Northern Lights Tower near the entrance of the Prairie Village Museum a personal project for many years.