AKERLUND STUDIO SURVIVES

Article by Irene Bender from the Cokato Historical Society's newsletter In the Midst Of,  Summer, 1992, Vol. 12 No. 3. 

June 16 seemed to be a normal day at the Cokato Museum at four thirty. The alarm was set. That evening a storm moved through Meeker County where I live; my husband and I went to the basement for about ten minutes. After the strong wind and some hail, we went back to bed. The phone rang about one o'clock. City Clerk Peggy Carlson said some windows were
broken in the museum. My first thought was the skylight in the Akerlund Studio. She said it was not broken.

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