Amato to speak at Lyon County Museum on June 6

The recently dedicated Joseph A. Amato Research Center in the Lyon County Museum in Marshall will be open for touring from 6-6:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 6.
The Amato Research Center is located on the main floor of the museum. Beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the conference room on the second floor, Amato will give a talk entitled, “How Southwest Minnesota Became Home: Forty Years of Living in and Studying a Place”. The talk will be based on his forthcoming autobiography, Spring of Springs, one of recent treatments of self, as he will explain.
At the November 2023 board meeting, the LCHS Board of Directors approved naming the research room the Joseph A. Amato Research Center in recognition of Joe’s work in rural and regional history.
The tour and talk is free-will donation and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information, contact the Lyon County Museum at 507-537-6580 or director@lyoncomuseum.org.