Dacie Moses House In The News

Carleton students and alumni packed into Dacie Moses House last Sunday to celebrate what would have been Dacie Moses’s 131st birthday.

Back 100 years ago, if a woman desired to go horseback riding she needed a special seat called a woman’s side saddle.

This week’s history lesson is a woman’s side saddle seat that belonged to Northfielder Daisie Moses, known to many as “Dacie.” She rode her horses with this seat as a young girl growing up in Northfield.

Now this early 1900s side saddle seat makes a home at Northfield Historical Society. Donated in May of 1997 by Karna Cronholm Brewer, who sat in the seat during Jesse James parades in the 1950s, she was later given the seat as a graduation gift in 1955 by Dacie. The side saddle seat is designed to fit a woman’s more delicate, small feet.

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For many years after Dacie Moses died in 1981, people who worked with the house continued to find stashes of old books and papers, photos, memorabilia and knickknacks tucked away in various corners and cubby holes in the house.  It was our practice to transfer any of this material which looked like it might have historical significance, and which was not needed for the house’s service to students and alumni, to the Carleton College Archives.  But evidently there was one box which we should have examined a little more closely…  

On the place to be Sunday morning…

If there was ever any doubt about Carleton’s love for Dacie Moses, let her 128th birthday anniversary stand testament to the devoted appreciation and support of students, faculty, staff, alums, and community members alike.

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Comfy couches. Haunting smells of freshly baked cookies. Tinkling music in the background. And now, crunchy carpets. As I stepped into Dacie Moses House, one sunny afternoon, I was greeted by a confused dog who came out of the kitchen to the living room, now decked up with a lavish blue carpeted floor. I walked to the kitchen, and as I had expected, there were cookies waiting for suddenly-hungry-stomachs, and I grabbed one (while thinking if I should grab another, and moving away before I could), and walked down from the kitchen into the little garden at the back of the house. There I met Julia, the coordinator of Dacie Moses House, cutting vegetables on the hammock, and then moving blocks of firewood, leftover from a bonfire that was used in one of the Sunday brunches….

A Knight’s Tale

Since this acapella group started in 1956, the Knights have practiced in Dacie’s living room. In this house, there are all the facilities there to have a comfortable practice session – storage rooms for CDs and tuxedos and song scores and a piano.  Dacie herself was very supportive of accapella. ‘Steal Away’ was Dacie’s second favorite song…

A House for Everyone, and Me

I was drawn to the idea of living in Dacie’s because of the open-door spirit and the warmth of community that surrounds the house. Admittedly, part of the draw was that I could be paid to bake, something I always spent a whole lot of time doing anyway. My roommate (Emily Winer) and I wanted to help maintain the wonderful tradition of “grandma Dacie’s” while somehow incorporating ourselves into the house. While living here this summer, we started hosting themed Wednesday night dessert parties that were open to the Northfield community and we were amazed at how many people came each week! My personal favorite event which we threw together was the “1950’s Dessert Party” where we served banana cream pie, angel food cake, and about a hundred whoopee pies. Ultimately, I think I chose to live here because I wanted to live in a home and encourage other students to make Dacie’s a home too…

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So, if you read my previous blog post Presidents and Ice Cream, you know that I like my desserts. So clearly, my dream hangout spot would always smell like…

After diner we headed over to Dacie Moses for their desert day.  Unfortunately we came too late, and they ran out.  No worries though, it’s Dacie Moses, you can make your own desert.  We wanted to make something crazy though, not just chocolate chip cookies….

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New developments at Carleton– get excited!