In this week’s update: Magic at the Mill card tournament on Saturday, new gift shop products available, recording on Alma Swensson presentation, and more!
In our weekly update, keep up to date on what staff and volunteers at the Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum are working on to lift up the history of Lindsborg and the surrounding region. This weekly update both looks back at what happened last week and looks ahead at what’s coming.
For September 9-15, 2024:
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- This weekend on Saturday, September 21 is the first ever Magic at the Mill card tournament event!
These unique and first-of-their-kind Magic the Gathering card game competitions will be held in Lindsborg’s beautiful & historic 1898 Smoky Valley Roller Mills.This is our first event collaboration with Spelbok – Lindsborg’s own hometown gaming and comic book store.A portion of each registration fee goes to support the Old Mill Museum and entitles each player to a guided tour of the Old Mill! As an added bonus: While supplies last, each participant will receive a free fabric “pancake mix” dice bag!Players can choose to enter in…-“Duskmourn: House of Horror” Pre-Release Tournament: $39.99.
-Open Casual Commander: $10Register at spelbok.com.
Watch for a potential story coming this week from The Salina Journal on this exciting new event!
- We have new items now available to order on the online gift shop!
Check out:
-Let It Rise bread mixes
-Grannie’s Homemade mustard
-Little Vikings “Create Your Own” paint kit
-Swedish flag stickers
-Dala horse stickers
-Oval reflective dala horse decals
-Dala horse iron-on patches
- Our most recent presentation in the Historical Speaker Series about Alma Swensson was on Saturday, September 14. If you were unable to make it to the live presentation, a recording of the Zoom talk on Alma is now available to view for free on the museum’s YouTube page HERE.
The Historic Speaker Series is a set of online talks in partnership with the Smoky Valley Historical Association featuring great historical figures in Lindsborg and Smoky Valley History. The next subject in the speaker series will be about Henry Lungstrom at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 12.
Registration is completely FREE to the first 100 to sign up and is made possible with a grant from Humanities Kansas. Registration is open now online at: www.oldmillmuseum.org/historical-speaker-series/#Lungstrom
- We are still just past the halfway mark with 51% on fundraising under the Community Service Program (CSP) Tax Credits through the Kansas Department of Commerce. Read about all the latest here and let us know how much you are interested in contributing: www.oldmillmillmuseum.org/save-the-pavilion!
We’ve had 29 individuals, families, and businesses contribute to this progress to the tune of $121,384.25. We need about another $45,000 before the funding for the essential structural repair is secured.
Any Kansas resident (or out-of-state resident who files a Kansas income tax return) can qualify to receive back a 70% fully refundable tax credit on their Kansas return with a donation of $250 or more to the project! The available tax credits will be used to enhance fundraising efforts for the Pavilion Restoration & Improvement Project. The credits are expected to raise $238,000 in donations, which will fully cover critical stabilization repairs to prevent collapse of the historic structure and will partially cover installation of a new, more historically accurate roof.
This will be a successful initiative only if individuals, families, and organizations step forward to give under the program’s tax credit opportunity. Please carefully consider your own ability to give to this project, and to share this opportunity with your own friends and family!
- Our next online Swedish Genealogy Workshop is scheduled for October 26 and is now open for registration HERE. The popular workshop has four sessions and runs $50 for non-members and $30 for members (look for the code in a recent email). Registration is limited to 100 attendees, so register today!
- “Old Family Photos: Trash or Treasure?” is an hourlong online presentation on photo identification and preservation planned for Saturday, November 2. Registration is $10 or free with code for museum members. Register at the museum gift shop HERE.
- We have received word that our final disbursement of funds for $125,000 from the SPRINT Grant through the Kansas Department of Commerce has been approved and should be arriving within the next few weeks.
- Lenora and contract part-time worker Tyler worked on organizing Svensk Hyllningsfest materials for archival preservation.
- Adam continued edits on the Old Mill history book.
- Adam guided the director of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” across the Heritage Square area for better planning of where each scene of the performance will be on October 10, 11, and 12.
- NOW OPEN: “Skeleton-Of-Dog… Selected Geology & Natural History Artifacts from the Bethany College Collection Archives” is a temporary mini-exhibit at the museum featuring some unique artifacts not seen in public for decades!
- Our Endowment Campaign 2025 is ongoing to add $1 million to our endowment in supporting our annual operational budget to make sure that not only do we preserve these historical treasures, but we can also “keep the lights on.” Read more on the flyer and giving form below, or visit to www.oldmillmuseum.org/donations to learn more!
- This weekend on Saturday, September 21 is the first ever Magic at the Mill card tournament event!
Thank you to our museum volunteers!