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Let’s Bring the Meeting to Order: The Organizations and Clubs of the Women of Cokato

4/10/2024

 
Revised. Johanna Ellison, "Let's Bring the Meeting to Order: The Organizations and Clubs of the Women of Cokato." In The Midst Of. Cokato Historical Society. (May, 2017) vol. 37, no. 2.
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Royal Neighbors of America Kitchen Orchestra, circa 1930s.
Women in the 1890s - 1930s battled social stigmas, pegging them as physically and mentally inferior to their male counterparts. Unable to vote, most women could not hold certain jobs, or participate in sports, the majority of women were molded from birth into the role of housewife. As a result, many women found their education and skills neglected and underutilized by society.

For women seeking to unearth their buried talents, clubs provided them with an avenue to address social and political issues near to their hearts. The same was true for the women of Cokato.

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My Life in the Sparkle Section

8/5/2023

 
Rhea Langemo. "My Life in the Sparkle Section" In the Midst Of, Cokato Historical Society (Corn Carnival Souvenir Edition, 2019) v. 39 no. 3. 
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Rhea Langemo getting crowned a Cokato Princess, 1991.
​My involvement in the Cokato Royalty program began in 1991.  As a graduating senior, I was eligible to run for Miss Cokato and when I received the interest letter in the mail, I quickly checked the YES box and mailed it back to the Royalty Committee.  As a lifelong Cokato girl, I knew this was in my future and I looked forward to it more each year. Little did I know how that simple action of returning an interest letter would lead me to still be involved with the Cokato Royalty program all these years later.

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LOST COKATO: THE COKATO WINTER ICE CARNIVALS

6/29/2021

 
Mike Worcester, "Lost Cokato: The Cokato Winter Ice Carnivals." In The Midst Of, Cokato Historical Society (Winter, 1998) vol. 18 no. 1.
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​Cokato Winter Carnival Speed Skating Competition in Peterson Park.
When most people think of Cokato festivals, the Corn Carnival usually comes to mind.  But in Minnesota, as the St. Paul Winter Carnival has shown, those cold months of December through February can be fertile ground for some fun times.    So in December 1939, when members of the Cokato Association for Public Affairs (a forerunner of the Cokato Chamber of Commerce) proposed some sort of winter festival for Cokato, nobody found it an odd idea.

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