The Sutton Museum is the home of the Sutton Historical Society and is dedicated to the collection and preservation of historic artifacts and information about the Sutton, Nebraska community.
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Sunday, May 31, 2020
Harvard POW's Letter to his Parents After Release
Pfc. Clinton Hohnstein wrote this letter to his Harvard parents immediately after being liberated from a German prisoner of war camp. The letter appeared in The Harvard Courier on May 31, 1945.
Saturday, May 30, 2020
The 1970 Sutton Memorial Day Program
The 1970 Memorial Day Program included a list of veterans from various wars and members of other patriotic organizations.
The lists are incomplete, especially the World War II list.
Mrs. Beulah Ochsner was the Queen of the Daughters of the Nile in 1970
This article appeared in CCN on May 14, 1970.
The Sutton Museum has Mrs. Ochsner's dress from this occasion on display along with Dr. Ochsner's dental memorabilia.
Monday, May 25, 2020
Friday, May 22, 2020
Tom Osborne - Speaker at 1995 Athletic Banquet
Nebraska head football coach Tom Osborne was the speaker at the 1995 Athletic Banquet in Sutton. This was on May 9th, just a few months after his #1 Huskers beat #3 Miami in the Orange Bowl to capture his first National Championship.
Spring 1920 County Teachers Exam Schedule
This schedule for county teacher exams appeared in the Sutton Register on May 27, 1920. The battery of tests covered two days and a variety of subjects. It appears there were three skill levels to the exam for certification or some other formal designation - First Grade, Second Grade, and Life.
Sutton Rebekah Lodge #34 - June 1894
Members of Sutton Rebekah Lodge #34 posed for this photo in June 1894.
The key to identify these women is on the back of the photo - almost all are listed providing good material for investigation into their stories.
FOX HOLLOW Golf Course Opened May 28, 1995
Sutton's Fox Hollow Golf Course held its Opening Day on May 28, 1995. The club held an auction to determine the first 36 golfers to take the course.
Thees anxious 36 were the intrepid golfers poised to Go Where No Man Had Golfed Before. |
The story of the Opening Day festivities. |
The Auction set the Order of Battle for the Opening Day rounds by First Golfers #1 - #36. |
Fox Hollow course description, hole-by-hole on Opening Day |
Jack Van Kirk took All-Time Course Honors initiating play on Sutton's new course |