About Prairie Star District Heritage and Archives Committee

The Heritage and Archives Committee provides a District initiative and ongoing program coordination for UU history, in recognition of the importance of preserving, understanding, and celebrating the past that has forged our identity.

Members of the committee gave leadership to the 2002 Light on the Prairie conference. There is interest in our history as indicated by attendance of 100 people from 32 congregations.

The committee serves congregations by:

• Providing an institutional base for regional or District-wide grant funded historical projects.
• Organizing historical source material and disseminating it for inspiration and education.
• Providing assistance for maintaining records and preserving stories through interviews and oral histories.
• Creating and maintaining the PSD Heritage web site pages.
• Developing a network of people with an interest in UU history.

Current members of the committee are Lowell Hanson (White Bear UU Church, Mahtomedi, MN), Carol Jackson (First Unitarian Church, Minneapolis, MN), Victor Urbanowicz (White Bear UU Church, Mahtomedi, MN), Walter Wells (All Souls UU Church, Kansas City, MO), Ann Herington (Unitarian Church, Davenport, Iowa), Don McKinnon (First Universalist Church of Winnipeg, MB, Canada), Ramon Powers (UUF of Topeka, KS), Tim Hirsch (UUF of Eau Claire, WI), and Frank Potter (UUF of Dubuque, Iowa).