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A Natural Curiosity: The Story of the Bell Museum
Reviewer: Anne FieldA Natural Curiosity: The Story of the Bell Museum Lansing Shepard, Don Luce, Barbara Coffin, and Gwen Schagrin Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2022 400 pages; cloth cover/jacket, 310 color plates, $34.95 The Bell Museum, located on the edge of the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul…
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…
Ramsey County History – Summer 2021: “How It Started; How It’s Going: Land O’Lakes Celebrates Ten Decades of Innovation”
Karen Mellott-FosierHow It Started; How It’s Going: Land O’Lakes Celebrates Ten Decades of Innovation Author: Karen Mellott-Fosier Arden Hills-based Land O’Lakes, Inc. celebrates a milestone birthday in 2021. A century ago on June 7, 1921, representatives from 320 of the state’s co-op creameries gathered in the old state capitol…
Ramsey County History – Summer 2021: “The Aesthetics of Bridge Design: A Paean to Two of St. Paul’s Elegant Park Bridges” – 2024 David Stanley Gebhard Award from the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians
Christine Podas-LarsonThe Aesthetics of Bridge Design: A Paean to Two of St. Paul’s Elegant Park Bridges Author: Christine Podas-Larson 2024 David Stanley Gebhard Award from the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (Magazine Article Winner) It is said that bridges have the power to define the character…
A Private Wilderness: The Journals of Sigurd F. Olson
Reviewer: Anne CowieA Private Wilderness: The Journals of Sigurd F. Olson Sigurd F. Olson; David Backes, ed. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2021 376 pages; cloth cover/jacket, 74 b&w photos, 1 map, $29.95 Sigurd Olson, a father of the movement to save the Boundary Waters in the Quetico-Superior…
History Revealed: St. Paul Hiking Club
Bob Tholkes, Janice Quick, Donna Naumann Jensen, Pat Hustings, Meredith CummingsThe St. Paul Hiking Club With Bob Tholkes, Janice Quick, Donna Naumann Jensen and Pat Hustings with editor Meredith Cummings History Revealed Program Date: 04/29/2021 Video on YouTube The history and stories of the St. Paul Hiking Club from its beginnings over one…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2021: “Take a Hike: A Century of Walks with the St. Paul Hiking Club”
Bob Tholkes, with Meredith CummingsTake a Hike: A Century of Walks with the St. Paul Hiking Club Author: Bob Tholkes, with Meredith Cummings On January 15, 1921, twenty-five hardy young people bundled up in their warmest boots, knickers, hiking skirts, and woolen mittens and socks for a six-mile round-trip jaunt on the…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2021: “We Represent: Evolving Public Art at the Saint Paul City Hall – Ramsey County Courthouse”
Kristina YousoWe Represent: Evolving Public Art at the Saint Paul City Hall – Ramsey County Courthouse Author: Kristina Youso On August 19, 2020, the public got its first look at four new 16’ x 5’ murals now on display in the council chambers of the Saint Paul City…
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…