Blue Rapids Museum

09/05/2026

It is getting closer.

We are ONE WEEK away from Circle of Giving Match Day!

Make a plan to donate on Match Day:
➡Mail a check and donation form to PO Box 63, Blue Rapids, KS 66411
➡Give online at GrowSouthBrown.com starting September 12 at 12:01 am and ending September 14 at 11:59 pm.
➡Stop by our live event at the Community Center on September 14 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm.

Visit out list of participating funds here: bluerapidsmatchday.com

09/05/2026

We need to do this for the Arlington garden.

Next Saturday is Butterfly Big Day! It is an international event designed by the Urban Butterfly Initiative for people of all ages to find as many wild butterflies as they can, spread awareness of the importance of butterflies & other pollinators, and learn how we can help their populations.

Participating is easy!

• Just download the free iNaturalist app and sign up for a free account. You can also use a web browser and access the iNaturalist web site (inaturalist.org).

• Take photos of free-living butterflies (not captive or from butterfly houses)

• Submit your photos to iNaturalist. Photos of butterflies submitted anywhere in the world on 12th September will count for Butterfly Big Day! You do not have to be able to identify the butterfly in order for your observations to be useful.

For more information, links to brief iNaturalist tutorial videos, and to find the Butterfly Big Day regional partner in your part of the world, visit www.urbanbutterflies.org/big-day

To see all the Butterfly Big Day submissions, visit the iNaturalist project page during or after the event: www.inaturalist.org/projects/butterfly-big-day-2026

09/01/2026

Blue Rapids Community Foundation Match Day is September 14, 2026. Donations are greatly appreciated. Thank you

08/29/2026

Here is the form with the right zip code.

Match Day is approaching. On the original flyers that were sent out the ZIP Code for the address to mail in payments was wrong. The correct ZIP Code is 66411 which is for Blue Rapids. Please use the new form included.

08/29/2026

Join us.

We are TWO ✌ weeks away from Blue Rapids Circle of Giving Match Day!!

Have you made your plan to donate? Visit our website to see all the ways you can donate to make a difference in our community: bluerapidsmatchday.com/ways-to-give

08/28/2026

https://youtu.be/CAG4DBX0FnY?si=aZyiApVBOWTzm5Ga

Arlington Gardens, Est. 2025. Located in Beautiful downtown Blue Ra...

08/26/2026

If you ever have a chance to go see the museum make the time.

September 5, 1856. The steamboat Arabia sinks in the Missouri River near Kansas City, carrying over 200 tons of cargo straight to the bottom.

For more than a century, the wreck sat buried under farmland after the river shifted its course, completely forgotten. In 1988, a team of excavators finally uncovered it, pulling up an astonishingly preserved time capsule of 1850s goods, from tools to dishware to bottled goods still sealed. It remains one of the most remarkable river archaeology finds in American history, and much of it is now on display in Kansas City.

It's incredible that an entire steamboat's cargo sat perfectly preserved under a cornfield for over a century. Have you ever visited the Arabia Steamboat Museum?

08/22/2026

Arlington Gardens progress

08/16/2026

Monday August 16, at 1:00 Rev Earl Underwood will be doing a genealogy program. He will also be donating 63 years of research on the Reedy Family. 11,330 names and 5 volumes. Stop in and see what that looks like.

08/09/2026

We have 1 Rose bush left.