The Smith's, related to the Glade Family, traveled from California for the event. The original plan was to create a replica of the mill, Eakes said, with the interior containing photographic exhibits only. Those plans changed when the Farmers Union Cooperative Supply Co. of Clarkson offered to donate antique milling equipment similar to that used in the Glade Mill at the turn of the century, Eakes said. Secretary of State Scott Moore told the crowd that he remembered visiting Stuhr Museum when he was a youngster. Va. Colonial Williamsburg offers a chance to visit a living history display in which buildings and costumes are recreated as they were on the eve of the American Revolution.
Interpreters take the identities of people who lived in that time period.
Lonnie Husing opens the doors to the new Glade Mill at Stuhr Museum during the grand opening on Tuesday. It is a way to teach ourselves. Joan Lukas, manager of corporate relations for ConAgra and the ConAgra Foundation, said the Henry Glade Grand Island Roller Mills once produced 2,000 pounds of flour a day. ConAgra now produces 26 billion pounds of flour a day. She said ConAgra's astounding production of today would not be possible without the path first blazed by Henry Glade.