A year ago in February 2023, I was packing my bags to head up to the Fox Valley Region to share my film, “The Exchange In White America: Kaukauna & King 50 Years Later,” with audiences in Kaukauna, Appleton, Oshkosh, Green Bay, Lawrence University and Fox Valley Technical College. I never expected to show the […]
This is how it all began… One Sunday in early 2016 I was sorting through boxes in the garage. I found a box marked “high school stuff.” It held things that only I would consider treasures. It also held a copy of my high school newspaper, The King’s Page. It had this headline: “King is […]
The challenge and complexity of mental health issues in our community is growing and – since the onset of the COVID pandemic – has now reached a critical stage. How do we as a community respond to and provide help to people in the middle of a crisis? The Appleton Police Department and Outagamie County […]
How do we make our local nonprofit organizations in the Fox Valley strong and equip their leaders with the knowledge and tools they need to serve our community? We take our leaders to school! The idea is to build better leaders so that together we can build a better community. Leadership Institute is an innovative programs […]
One of the oldest nonprofits in our area, Appleton’s History Museum at the Castle, is turning 150 years old. Imagine what it was like living in the Fox Valley in 1872! This community gem has a unique way of bringing our history and its bygone eras back to life. We can learn about our rich […]
Generous grants from funds within the Community Foundation supports the Appleton’s History Museum at the Castle, and are listed below. By Dustin Mack, Chief Curator, History Museum at the Castle With a flourish, John Stephens called the first meeting of the Outagamie County Pioneer Association to order at 10 a.m. February 22, 1872. And the […]
On Friday, August 28 the History Museum at the Castle will create a “Museum on the Lawn.” Pop-up exhibits staged on the museum’s front lawn will offer historic context to contemporary issues. The Museum on the Lawn is free and open to the public. The History Museum will move four exhibits outdoors to transform its […]
The David L. and Rita E. Nelson Family Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region has awarded a grant of $600,000 to Appleton’s History Museum at the Castle to support the new You Are Here exhibition. The grant will help fund the new core exhibit dedicated to telling the history of the […]
The Fox Cities Book Festival received a $2,500 grant from the Bright Idea Fund within the Community Foundation to support free public presentations by Matthew Desmond, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, which is the book selected for the Fox Cities Reads. Desmond speaks April 11 at 6:30 p.m. […]
A conversation at the History Museum at the Castle in Appleton with Walter S. Rugland about the spirit of giving in the Fox Valley This week, StoryCorps is recording 15 interviews with local residents about a wide range of topics at the History Museum at the Castle in Appleton. Each of the recordings will soon […]
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