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History Revealed: The Spirit Tree: Hazel Belvo
Julie L'EnfantThe Spirit Tree: Hazel Belvo and the Art of Nature With Julie L’Enfant History Revealed Series Program Date: Thursday, November 18, 2021 Video on YouTube In partnership with the Roseville Library & the East Side Freedom Library Hazel Belvo has been…
History Revealed: A Private Wilderness
David BackesA Private Wilderness: The Journals of Sigurd F. Olson with David Backes History Revealed Series Program Date: Thursday, August 19, 2021 Video on YouTube David Backes shared the personal diaries of one of America’s best-loved naturalists, revealing his difficult and inspiring path to finding…
History Revealed: Alvin Karpis and the Barker Gang
Deborah Frethem & Cynthia Schreiner SmithAlvin Karpis and the Barker Gang in Minnesota With Deborah Frethem & Cynthia Schreiner Smith History Revealed Program Date: Thursday, May 6, 2021 Video on YouTube In partnership with the White Bear Lake Area Historical Society From their home base in Minnesota, the Karpis-Barker…
History Revealed: Charles W. Malchow
Dr. Ryan Hurt & Paul NelsonCharles W. Malchow and the Story Behind “The Sexual Life” With Dr. Ryan Hurt with Paul Nelson History Revealed Series Program Date: April 22, 2021 Video on YouTube Viewer discretion advised. At the turn of the twentieth century, a progressive doctor named…
History Revealed: Booth Girls
Kim HeikkilaBooth Girls: Pregnancy, Adoption, and the Secrets We Kept Kim Heikkila, PhD History Revealed Series Program Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021 Video on YouTube In partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library “Booth Girls” is a thoughtful, multigenerational story of…
History Revealed: Grace Holmes Carlson
Donna T. Haverty-Stacke, Greg Poferl, Linda Leighton, and Mary WingerdThe Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson A Conversation Between Author Donna T. Haverty-Stacke and Reader/Discussants Greg Poferl, Linda Leighton, and Mary Wingerd History Revealed Series Program Date: 03/04/2021 Video on YouTube On December 8, 1941, Grace Holmes Carlson, the only female defendant…
History Revealed: Sinclair Lewis
Patrick ColemanSinclair Lewis, His Life, Work and Relevance Patrick Coleman History Revealed Series Program Date: November 19, 2020 YouTube Video Ramsey County Historical Society, in partnership with the Roseville Library. Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street turned 100 years old this October. It was a publishing phenomenon…
Minnesota’s Geologist: The Life of Newton Horace Winchell
Reviewer: Paul NelsonMinnesota’s Geologist: The Life of Newton Horace Winchell Sue Leaf Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2020 280 pages; hardcover, 30 b&w plates, $29.95 Newton Horace Winchell deserves to be remembered. He was probably Minnesota’s greatest nineteenth-century scientist, a giant in not only geology but paleontology and…
Walk on the East Side: Pictures and Stories from Residents of St. Paul’s East Side
Authors: Hans Mouritzen and Carol MacAllister; Reviewer: John M. LindleyWalk on the East Side: Pictures and Stories from Residents of St. Paul’s East Side Authors: Hans Mouritzen and Carol MacAllister St. Paul: East Side Elders, 2017 28 pages; color photos; $20.00; Available from info@EastSideElders.org Reviewed by John M. Lindley Upon opening this slim, but colorful, little…