What’s in Your Drawers?

After the cessation of activities in 1928 by the MWA at Camp 6190 Hall, the Hall became the Community Gathering Point protected from vandalism by love.

The Goat Story

In the 1800s, fraternal organizations were often viewed with suspicion. Their closed meetings, passwords, and initiation ceremonies led outsiders to imagine something dark and dangerous happening behind lodge doors.

The Taxman Never Lies

Oral history is fascinating and useful and very fun and doesn’t always match the written history. That doesn’t make oral history incorrect or invalid any more than it makes the written history incorrect or invalid; it makes all history nuanced.

Abandoned (Not) by All

One of the greatest dangers to folk art is vandalism — but neglect is what invites it. After Modern Woodmen activities ended and Camp 6190 was deactivated in 1929, the building now known as Wood Hall passed down the Gibeault family tree.