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Beltrami County Historical Society highlights new journal, fall events and asks board to consider funding priorities
Summary
The Beltrami County Historical Society reported on the revived North Country Journal and a slate of fall programs, thanked the county for tourism grant support, and asked commissioners to consider the society’s reach when setting December funding priorities.
Emily Thabes, executive director of the Beltrami County Historical Society, updated the Beltrami County Board of Commissioners on recent publications and fall programming and thanked the board for tourism-development grant support for the society’s revived North Country Journal.
“First, I want to express our gratitude for your ongoing supports for the North Country Journal through the county's tourism development grant,” Thabes said. She told the board the journal — revived from a resident historian’s original publication — now has an application submitted for an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) via the Library of Congress and that the society plans to seek state and national recognition for the inaugural publication.
Thabes described two upcoming programs: a special reading on October 23 at the Bemidji Library featuring stories from the journal, and the society’s signature fall event, History Mystery, an interactive drama about the 1906 suspicious death of local resident Emma Davids; the History Mystery event’s October date was given without a specific day and has a listed start time of 5:30 p.m. Thabes said program organizers are coordinating with local addiction centers to provide information about opioid addiction resources at History Mystery events.
Thabes also outlined recurring and one-time fall programs, including Art Is Her Story workshops funded by the Region 2 Arts Council and free workshops in communities including Blackduck and Kelliher; a Designing the Future: Women in Engineering panel on October 18; an In Her Boots: Women in Service panel on November 8; memory-capture writing workshops for seniors; and creative space offered through Loon Country Arts for residents ages 12 and up.
Thabes said many programs have reached capacity: “Art is Her Story workshops have filled their 10 seat capacities quickly for most of those workshops already,” she told the board, and invited commissioners to attend events. She asked the board to consider the society’s broad community reach when the commission deliberates funding priorities ahead of its December 2 meeting.
