As 2025 comes to a close, and with it my first year as Executive Director of the Reher Center, I have been reflecting on what grounds our work at the Center and anchors us in our mission to foster belonging through culture, community, and history. I keep returning to one … Read More
What do a bottle of chloroform, a pile of bones, and a decapitated doll’s head have to do with the Reher Center? Since the inception of the Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History just over twenty years ago, two phases of archaeological digs have taken place onsite–one in … Read More
If you’ve been inside Reher’s Historic Bakery, you likely already know who the woman in this photo is. Born in 1905, Sadie Reher was the sixth of nine Reher siblings. Though this photo of Sadie is one of the only images we have of the interior of Reher’s Bakery, Sadie … Read More