Friends of the Florence Town Hall will host a Florence Township History Fair Saturday, April 21, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Town Hall, 33915 Hwy 61, Frontenac.
Refreshments will be served and door prizes awarded. There is no entrance charge.
At 2 p.m. Lorry Wendland, resident of Old Frontenac,...
When Lorry Wendland moved to her home on Lake Avenue Way in Old Frontenac in 2000 she decided to read up on the village’s history.
Two things struck her.
First, a lot of the information she was reading was contradictory. Second, she didn’t feel like the town’s 19th century pioneers were being...
About 100 people listen as Lorry Wendland (far right) tells the story behind the stories of the 19th century pioneers in her new books “19th Century Frontenac, Minnesota - The Rest of the Story,” and “Genealogy of a Village - 19th Century Frontenac, Minnesota.” Wendland’s presentation was the...