What We’re Loving right now

A LITTLE LIST OF WHAT WE THINK IS AWESOME IN THE DRIFTLESS REGION THIS SUMMER...

The museum is open to the public seven days a week, June through August, and weekends through September, with tours starting at 1, 2, and 3 pm.

Special events are also offered, featuring programming for children in July and August. Keep an eye out for “Porter House After Dark” events this fall as well!

Follow Porter House Museum on Facebook or www. porterhousemuseum.org for details about these and other upcoming events.

Porter House

Broadway Street just off Downtown Decorah makes for a lovely stroll through the summer months – and it isn’t hard to imagine life a century ago, with broad porches and rocking chairs, taking in a lovely summer’s day or evening.

The Porter House Museum, at 401 W Broadway in Decorah, was the home of Bert and Grace Porter, a Decorah story of sweethearts who would become world adventurers. Their home (now museum) is once again open for the season, as a time capsule of this eclectic, turn-of-the-century couple, featuring content for biology buffs, geology enthusiasts, architecture admirers, music lovers, women’s rights activists, globetrotters, and more.

DECORAHNOW.COM – WE LOVE IT!

Looking for a ride to Minneapolis? Have a snowblower to sell? Want to know what’s going on in Decorah any given day – or just want to plug into our region’s community?

For over a decade, DecorahNow.com has been providing an online community platform for Decorah and the surrounding region. This resource was the creation of Liz Rog and Brad Crawford, who ran with Liz’s idea for a good ol’ community bulletin board concept (originally started as an email list) that Brad was able to conceptualize with modern online technology. The result has been an amazing resource that includes event listings, classifieds, job listings, community information, and more!

DecorahNow.com, for its part, continues to be free to use and accepts donations to offset the time it takes to answer reader questions, debug site features, and catch new scams that crop up in the classifieds section.

“It’s really a big experiment in seeing what the community needs and using technology to get it out there,” Brad says. And, thanks to the Internet, word has spread.

“I wanted to shine a light on the people here and foster appreciation for what we have together – and make it plain that anyone can fit in by offering what they have to offer,” Liz concludes. “And it has done exactly that.”