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Ramsey County History Summer 2025
Andrea Swensson, Diane Trout-Oertel, Robin J. Doroshow, Nancy Sanchelli Guertin, Frederick L. JohnsonRamsey County History Summer 2025 Volume 60, No. 3: Summer 2025 Diane Trout-Oertel, Robin J. Doroshow, Nancy Sanchelli Guertin Link to download PDF of full Ramsey County History Summer 2025 Articles in this issue: The Matriarch of the Art Colony Early Twentieth Century Art in St. Paul as…
Growing Up Working at a Saint Paul Jewish Delicatessen
Robin J. DoroshowBy Robin J. Doroshow To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images, please view the PDF version. So, what exactly is a Jewish Delicatessen? The word “delicatessen” itself means delicacy in German, but the image it evokes, when coupled with the descriptor, Jewish, is something more…
Ramsey County History Spring 2025
Andrea Swensson, Chia Youyee Vang, PhD, Janice R. Quick, Pete BoulayRamsey County History Spring 2025 Volume 60, No. 2: Spring 2025 Chia Youyee Vang, PhD, Janice R. Quick, Pete Boulay Link to download PDF of full Ramsey County History Spring 2025 Articles in this issue: Reflections from the 1.5 Generation Fifty Years of Hmong Lives in Ramsey County…
A History of Drive-in Movie Theaters in Ramsey County
Pete BoulayThe Rose sat at the corner of Snelling Avenue and County Road C in Roseville from 1948 to 1979, and was Ramsey County’s first drive-in movie theater. Photo by Robert Murphy. “First Show at Dusk” By Pete Boulay To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images,…
Three Extraordinary Years in St. Paul Millinery: 1908, 1909, 1911
Janice R. QuickA 1908 newspaper ad for Philipsborn’s featured line drawings of lovely urbane ladies wearing elaborately decorated hats and “dainty silk dresses” priced from $16.50 to $25, the equivalent of $566 to $857 in today’s economy. In the St. Paul Pioneer Press, May 17, 1908. Feather Frenzy By Janice R. Quick…
March of the Governors: Mark Dayton
Tom Beer and Paul NelsonMark Dayton, Minnesota’s fortieth governor, was the oldest to assume that office for the first time at sixty-three. He stepped into the role with vast political experience. In the 1970s, he served as legislative aide and Minnesota Economic Development commissioner and later worked four years as state auditor and six…
March of the Governors: Jesse Ventura
Paul Nelson, Matt Wright, and Ken PetersonTo call our thirty-eighth governor, Jesse Ventura, unique is to engage in understatement. He was Minnesota’s first third-party governor since Elmer Benson in 1936. Though he ran on the Reform Party ticket, that party elected no one else, so he had no allies in the legislature. His plurality, 37% of…
March of the Governors: Arne Carlson
Paul Nelson and Tom BeerArne Carlson, Minnesota’s thirty-seventh governor, was a Swede and a progressive Republican, like several before him, but unlike them, too. He grew up poor in New York City and had no connection to the dominant Harold Stassen political lineage. Carlson came to Minnesota for graduate school—then won election after election:…
Ramsey County History Spring 2024
Paul Nelson, Drew Ross, Wendy Rossi, Meredith CummingsVolume 59, Number 2: Spring 2024 Link to download PDF of full Ramsey County History Spring 2024 Articles in this issue: The Fraud of the Century Author: Paul Nelson According to author Paul Nelson, “The human desire for wealth without risk and the capacity for self-delusion make an…