To 1939, Dorothy!

My birthday is May 3 (I regret nothing posting here that next year I will turn 50…just putting the information out there…)

Anyway, starting my birthday month of May closing on a dream property of a blue turret house felt great enough. But then discovering that Deb and Dave had left owners manuals in the cupboards, labeled keys, garage door openers, celebratory goodies in the fridge, notes here and there…the list goes on and you get the idea. Birthday gifts galore.

(Professional note: I DO realize my life and that of ACHS are separate. But there’s also a substantial amount of overlap, as any nonprofit geek will tell you.)

But the real winner? The icing on said cake? Deb left some Ticknor goodies in the office bookcase. ACHS now has some more bottles and bits, duplicates of current collection items. New to us and the world are snapshots of damage at Ticknor House from the 1939 tornado and some inside images of Christmas in the 1960s!

Right now this website, like everything ACHS 2.0, is a design-build project that will grow with us (and you!) over time. For now, zoom in on the snapshots to get a taste of the fun. Hopefully this winter we can have a volunteer scan the images and upload them to our database for preservation. We can then create a page at TicknorHill.com and AnokaCountyHistory.org for folks to enjoy, making the 1939 tornado story that much more complete.

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