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Ramsey County History – Spring/Summer 1977: “Tough Times: The Sometime Fortunes of Boxing in Early Minnesota”
Junior Pioneer Association of Ramsey County, MinnesotaTough Times: The Sometime Fortunes of Boxing in Early Minnesota Author: Junior Pioneer Association of Ramsey County, Minnesota “Prize fights were rare in St. Paul during the early days, no doubt because fights could be seen for free on the streets or at the levee almost any day.” The…
Ramsey County History – Spring/Summer 1977: “The Not-So-Peaceable Kingdom: Religion in Early St Paul”
Dennis HoffaThe Not-So-Peaceable Kingdom: Religion in Early St Paul Author: Dennis Hoffa St. Paul began as a mostly Catholic village, to the extent that religion was practiced. “The beginnings of Protestantism as a force within the community centered around the establishment of Harriet Bishop’s Sunday School [in 1847].” Many Yankee…
Ramsey County History – Spring/Summer 1977: Board of Directors
Ramsey County Historical SocietyPDF of Board of Directors…
Ramsey County History – Fall/Winter 1976: “Persecution in St Paul: The Germans in World War I”
Sister John Christine WolkerstorferPersecution in St Paul: The Germans in World War I Author: Sister John Christine Wolkerstorfer “Between 1855 and 1915, Germans in America lived not in an American culture, but rather in a German-America.” All that changed with the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. Minnesota participated enthusiastically in the…
Ramsey County History – Fall/Winter 1976: “Board of Directors”
Ramsey County Historical SocietyPDF of Board of Directors…
Ramsey County History – Special 1976: “Minnesota Art and Artists: A Pictorial History, 1820–1914”
Rena Neumann CoenMinnesota Art and Artists: A Pictorial History, 1820–1914 Author: Rena Neumann Coen Excerpts from the author’s book, Painting and Sculpture in Minnesota (1976), which was a Bicentennial project, along with an exhibit at the University of Minnesota Gallery. Nineteenth-century American artists, such as Seth Eastman and George Catlin, memorialized…
Ramsey County History – Special 1976: “Board of Directors”
Ramsey County Historical SocietyPDF of Board of Directors…
Ramsey County History – Spring/Summer 1975: “James J. Hill: A Search for the Man Behind the Legend”
Virginia Brainard KunzJames J. Hill: A Search for the Man Behind the Legend Author: Virginia Brainard Kunz Late in his life James J. Hill remarked, “I’ve made my mark on the surface of the earth and they [the U.S. Supreme Court] can’t wipe it out.” He knew he’d been a titan.
Ramsey County History – Spring/Summer 1975: “Fences”
Lansing ShepardFences Author: Lansing Shepard An essay on fences, followed by a two-page photo essay (11 images, historical and contemporary) of fences and fence-building. PDF of Shepard article…