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Ramsey County History 2026 Issue 2

Jeremiah E. Ellis, James Fleming and Paul Nelson, Frank M. White

Volume 61, No. 2 Jeremiah E. Ellis, James Fleming and Paul Nelson, Frank M. White PDF of full issue: Ramsey County History 2026, Issue 2   Articles in this issue: “James and Frances Hughes and the Architecture of Black Excellence in Minnesota” Author: Jeremiah E. Ellis At a…

Growing Up Dos Culturas

Frank M. White

by Frank M. White To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images, please view the PDF version. When I think back on my family history, where do I begin? I was born in November of 1945, which seems like a long time ago, into a bicultural…

Ramsey County History 2026 Issue 1

Paul Nelson and James Fleming, Kate Dietrick, Eula T. Murphy (with David V. Taylor)

Volume 61, No. 1 Paul Nelson and James Fleming, Kate Dietrick, Eula T. Murphy (with David V. Taylor) PDF of full issue: Ramsey County History 2026, Issue 1   Articles in this issue: “Hired to Carry the Dagger: Pierce Butler in St. Paul” Authors: Paul Nelson and James Fleming…

Myth, Memory, and the Origins of the St. Paul Jewish Community Center Symphony Orchestra

Kate Dietrick

“Under Lisowsky’s Baton” by Kate Dietrick To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images, please view the PDF version. Conductor Peter Lisowsky in action. Part of the St. Paul Jewish Community Center records, courtesy of the Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives, University of…

Looking Back at the Black Community

Eula T. Murphy (with David V. Taylor)

“Growing Up in St. Paul” By Eula T. Murphy (with David V. Taylor) To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images, please view the PDF version. Eula T. Murphy in 1961 when she was forty-one years old. The photographs with this article are from the author.

Ramsey County History Summer 2025

Andrea Swensson, Diane Trout-Oertel, Robin J. Doroshow, Nancy Sanchelli Guertin, Frederick L. Johnson

Ramsey 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…

The Day Camp That Launched St. Paul’s Adaptive Recreation Program

Nancy Sanchelli Guertin

“Close to You” By Nancy Sanchelli Guertin To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images, please view the PDF version. It seems like every time Twin Cities Public Television has a pledge drive, they haul out concerts and documentaries designed to hit us baby boomers right…

Growing Up Working at a Saint Paul Jewish Delicatessen

Robin J. Doroshow

By 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…

Early Twentieth Century Art in St. Paul as Seen Through the Career of Alice Hügy

Diane Trout-Oertel

“The Matriarch of the Art Colony” By Diane Trout-Oertel To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images, please view the PDF version. Portrait of Alice Hügy by Clara Mairs, 1922. Hügy had brown hair, brown eyes and wore wire-rim glasses. Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society. In…