State Normal School Halloween 1909
The State Normal School, which would later become MSU, gave a Halloween party that was attended by three hundred people in 1909.
Local History Archives - October 2019
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Blue man of Spring Creek
If you have seen a giant of a man covered in hair so black that it looks blue, you are not the first. A 1924 newspaper article gives the account of the Blue Man who had been spotted off and on in Douglas County for sixty years.
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