Grant brings farming history to Fairmont

Stearns County is home to the Anton Gogala Farmstead, founded in 1867. The operation was run by a Slovenian-American family, who helped to found

Thanks to a grant from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, attendees got to learn about Minnesota's farming past from Author Jay Grammond at the Martin County Library in Fairmont on Friday.

After working in adult enrichment for community education programs for 20 years, Grammond made the switch to professional photography and writing six years ago. He said it was a leap of faith that paid off, as he gets to photograph pieces of Minnesota history and write about them for a living.

The Frank Schott farm in Chokio, Minnesota, is what opened the discussion. Grammond said Schott was a German immigrant who built a barn in 1923 that is unique in its design and appearance due to all of it being made with locally sourced materials. All of it remains today except the roof, which Grammond said fell at some point.

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