Lunch and a Bite of History: A Turner's Tragedy

Name: Lunch and a Bite of History: A Turner's Tragedy
Start: 2025-10-02T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-02T13:00:00-05:00
Location: Brown County Historical Society MN

Thu Oct 02 2025 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm UTC-05:00

Brown County Historical Society MN | New Ulm

Publisher/HostBrown County Historical Society MN

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Lunch and a Bite of History: A Turner's Tragedy

Kim Kerrigan is a graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato, and the grandnephew of James Schneider, a gymnastics instructor at New Ulm’s Turner Hall, 1897-1901. Kerrigan will share information about his granduncle’s fulfilling years in New Ulm and his untimely death as a result of the 1903 Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago that claimed over 600 lives.
Thursday, October 2nd | 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Free Admission | Reservations Required
Brown County Historical Society Museum Annex
12 N. Broadway, New Ulm, Minnesota
Email: [email protected] or call: 507-233-2616