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Holly Johnson: A time for reflection
If you asked 10 people to tell you what Christmas and New Year’s celebrations mean to them personally, you would likely get 10 different descriptions ...
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Festive traditions of the Hormel Historic Home
For those of you waiting anxiously for my annual re-write of a traditional Christmas song, here it is. Now, I am not naïve enough to ...
by Holly Johnson, Saturday, December 19, 2020 6:30 am
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Holly Johnson: YWCA remained strong thanks to community involvement
So often I hear from people that a member of their family was involved in some capacity at the Hormel Historic Home or the YWCA. ...
by Holly Johnson, Saturday, December 12, 2020 6:30 am
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Holly Johnson: Celebrating a famous birthday
Dec. 4, 2020, would have been George A. Hormel’s 160th birthday. In 1940, he celebrated his 80th at his Los Angeles home surrounded by family ...
by Holly Johnson, Saturday, December 5, 2020 6:30 am
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Holly Johnson: How Thanksgiving looked in the year 1909
No doubt your Thanksgiving celebration looked a little different this year. Did you fix a turkey? How many pies did you bake? Were there fewer ...
by Holly Johnson, Saturday, November 28, 2020 6:30 am
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Holly Johnson: Expressing gratitude for what we got
I would love to start this column offering you wishes for a nice Thanksgiving week filled with family, friends, and fun, but the current state ...
by Holly Johnson, Saturday, November 21, 2020 6:30 am
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Holly Johnson: A glimpse of George Hormel and his time on the road
The following letter from George Hormel to his mother dated Nov. 16, 1886, gives us a glimpse into his life on the road. For seven ...
by Holly Johnson, Friday, November 13, 2020 6:02 pm
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Holly Johnson: Zoom series to discuss a growing Hormel
We started hanging lights in the Hormel Historic Home Peace Garden this week. I know it’s early but the weather said “Just Do It.” And ...
by Holly Johnson, Saturday, November 7, 2020 6:30 am
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Holly Johnson: Halloween has a rich history in Austin
We have finally reached the one day in our calendar year where the wearing of masks is a socially acceptable practice. We recently hosted an ...
by Holly Johnson, Saturday, October 31, 2020 6:30 am
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Holly Johnson: HHH is getting closer to the holiday season
I know it’s still October, but we are only four weeks away from the beginning of the annual Hormel Historic Home holiday open house events. ...
by Holly Johnson, Saturday, October 24, 2020 6:30 am
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Holly Johnson: Finding a new focus
I have had a hard time deciding what to focus on for this column. We have fall and holiday events scheduled that I want to ...
by Holly Johnson, Saturday, October 17, 2020 6:30 am
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Holly Johnson: Enriching the season at the HHH
I am interrupting my series regarding the economic philosophies of George Hormel of which he wrote about in the Los Angeles Times in 1935. I ...
by Holly Johnson, Saturday, October 10, 2020 6:30 am
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Holly Johnson: George Hormel’s ideas for a better business environment
I ended last week’s column with a strong proclamation by George Hormel that business leaders in America should be working toward a plan that would ...
by Holly Johnson, Saturday, October 3, 2020 6:30 am
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Holly Johnson: George A. Hormel’s vision in the midst of the Depression
This is part two of my attempt to summarize the theories of George A. Hormel about how the United States could recover from the devastating ...
by Holly Johnson, Saturday, September 26, 2020 6:30 am
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Holly Johnson: More stories outside Hormel’s autobiography
While we have just begun studying the words of George Hormel in his autobiography in the History’s Sweet Reads series, I am now going to ...