Program/Booksigning

Learn how Sarah Jane Sibley, wife of Minnesota's first governor, used her training, skills, and relationships to manage a complex household and lead the state's first historic preservation movement despite challenges of geography and chronic illness in the Civil War era. As Author and Minnesota Historian, David Grabitske presents "Six Miles from St. Paul: the family and society of Sarah Jane Sibley" hear how Sarah Jane Sibley with James Shields tried to heal the political rift between Henry Hastings Sibley and Henry Mower Rice. The book is published by The Friends of the Sibley Historic Site and will be available for sale at the RCHS Bookstore. Book Signing and light refreshments to follow. Rice County Historical Society is located at 1814 NW 2nd Ave., Faribault, MN. $1 Members and $3 for Non-Members. 507-332-2121 for more information.