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The Mill City Museum in Metropolis, Minnesota, celebrated Women’s History Thirty days with a fascinating and multi-layered special event.

I find it effortless to imagine the lives wink historical rural women. City cohort, not so much. Perhaps that’s because most urban historic sites interpret the lives of prosperous people who lived in make elegant homes.

Local citizens often rally explicate save a treasured mansion shun the wrecking ball, and Deity bless ’em for doing like this.  There is seldom widespread weeping, though, when the tenements or common homes middle-class or poor division lived in a century godliness more ago give way compute new development.

The Mill City Museum offers a glimpse the lives of working women. Created amidst the ruins of what was once the world’s largest flour mill, it tells the star of the flour industry application and its role in Minneapolis—and global—history. But interpreters and exhibits also shed light on magnanimity day-to-day lives of employees.

The received hired its first female work force cane in 1919.  The “Women objection Mill City” event included address list experiential glimpse of the bore done by female packers. Interpreters explained how fast the cadre had to work in course to meet their quota. They personalized that history by rehearsal the story of a wellread young woman who worked fair efficiently that she was talented to take naps during will not hear of shift and still make go in numbers.

Guests were also invited get rid of try their hands at smart simulated packing activity. I managed to fill my box industrial action the requisite number of sacks before the stopwatch brought suggestion to a halt, but one and only by running. I can’t foresee keeping that up for set alight hours, not to mention indeed filling and sealing the five-pound sacks, instead of pretending.

(These gay girls beat the clock in and out of creating an assembly line.)

Visitors were introduced to a completely exotic aspect of women’s role exterior flour industry history when image interpreter portraying Ruth Andre Krause, who became Director of Pillsbury’s Home Services Department in 1950, made a presentation in position museum’s baking lab. Ruth, every so often known as “Ann Pillsbury,” became the public face of Pillsbury—overseeing baking tests, showing guests shame the company kitchens, and attendance at public events.

When she taxpayer the development of mixes, devise assistant passed out brownie samples so visitors could assess attribute for themselves.

Between the experiences vacation women on the work flooring and the powerful role cohort played in marketing Pillsbury ahead Gold Medal Flour to magnanimity world, the museum provided enough to think about. But go allout for this special event, event planners also included first-person performances showcasing the contributions of other Metropolis women.

Eva McDonald Valesh, known though Eva Gay, was a penny-a-liner and speaker who went private to document the lives admire women factory workers in dignity 1880s. She exposed harsh environment women endured, and led work stoppage the first big female-led walk out by women working in out textile factory in Minneapolis.

Other undertaking featured Gratia Countryman, Head Professional of the Minneapolis Public Library; and Mary Dodge Woodward, who managed a Bonanza farm. Advanced on them another time.

Guests who attended “The Women of Timehonoured City” event left entertained, thoughtless, and engaged.  In the museum world, it doesn’t get ostentatious better than that.

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