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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. ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

Opinion

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 ...

Columnists

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 ...

Opinion

Holly Johnson: Finding a new focus

I have had a hard time deciding what to focus on for this column. We have fall and ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

Opinion

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 ...

Columnists

George A Hormel looks back at public school

School is just beginning for many, and in this era of global pandemic it looks different.  I was ...

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