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Recent Osage Mission News!


  • KICKOFF - 5th Monday Presentations - In observance of our 165th year, the historical society is hosting "5th Monday" presentations during 2012. Each calendar year provides four or five months that have five Mondays and we are using those opportunities to provide an informative program about our local history. Our first program "The Jesuit Trail Rider" was held on Monday, January 30. We were pleased to entertain about 47 people from St. Paul and surrounding communities. Future programs will be presented in April, July and October. Thanks to LCC, Parsons for helping us with our advertising posters.

  • Busy Time - Programs and Road Trips - Early fall of 2011 has proven to be a busy time for the museum staff. We have been asked to participate in several on-site and remote programs for area groups and classes:

    • September 17 - Staff volunteer Felix Diskin represented the museum on a symposium panel at the Oswego Community Center. The symposium topic was the life and times of Oswego founder, and Civil War figure, John Matthews. Other invited panel members were from Pawhuska, Humboldt, the Fort Scott National Historic Site and Oswego.

    • September 19 - The museum provided an oral presentation on "Ghost Towns of Neosho County" to the Erie Study Club at the Erie Senior Center.

    • September 21 - The museum presented a PowerPoint Program "The Founders of Osage Mission/St. Paul" to the St. Francis PSR class. Approximately 50 students and adults attended.

    • September 28 - The museum hosted the Erie Women's Sorority with the PowerPoint presentation "Early Education in Neosho County". After the program the sorority members toured the museum.

    • December 3 - Museum staff presented a tailored version of the "The Founders" program to the local RCIA Class. It traced the development of the mission from 1847 though the early 1900's with focus on some of the key missionaries and groups who contributed to our development.

  • Lone Elm School House Pressed Back into Service (for a day) - The Lone Elm doors opened to a new class on Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Twila Wagner brought her third grade class to the schoolhouse for a full day of classes, which included learning about the way things used to be.

  • Senior History Day, 2011 - On Friday, May 6, the Museum hosted the seventh annual Senior History Day for our graduating class. Felix Diskin organized this event years ago while still principal at St. Paul Schools and it has become a last-week tradition.

  • Some Very Special Visitors - On Tuesday, April 12, 2011 more than 60 members of the Osage Nation visited the museum. The group traveled from Pawhuska and other locations across Oklahoma and Arkansas to tour the St. Francis de Hieronymo Catholic Church, the Museum and St. Francis Cemetery. The visit gave all of us reason to remember that the determination of the Osage ancestry to provide education for their young is the reason that St. Paul exists today.

  • Kansas Day January 28, 2011 - Kansas Day was observed at the Museum (link to St. Paul Schools Alumni & Friends site, use browser Back button to return)


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