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Ramsey County History – Spring 2006: “Growing Up in St. Paul: Stranger in a Strange Land: A Culture That for a Child Was Foreign and Alien”
Bernice M. FisherGrowing Up in St. Paul: Stranger in a Strange Land: A Culture That for a Child Was Foreign and Alien Author: Bernice M. Fisher Bernice Fisher started kindergarten at Scheffer School in 1933. A later move to St. Adelbert’s School changed her in ways her parents had not anticipated.
Ramsey County History – Spring 2006: Book Reviews
Ramsey County Historical SocietyBook Reviews Leigh Roethke, Minnesota’s Capitol: A Centennial Story (Afton, Minn.: Afton Historical Society Press, 2005). Pearl Marea Schenk, Pearl and the Howling Hound Farm: A Gifted Educator Remembers (St. Paul: Ramsey County Historical Society, 2006). William D. Bowell Sr., Ol’ Man River: Memoirs of a Riverboat Captain (Afton, Minn.: Afton Historical Society Press, 2005). Stephen…
Ramsey County History – Spring 2006: Letters to the Editor
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Ramsey County History – Winter 2006: “‘The Greatest Single Industry?’ Crex: Created Out of Nothing”
Paul D. Nelson“The Greatest Single Industry?” Crex: Created Out of Nothing Author: Paul D. Nelson The American Grass Twine Company was the fifth largest employer in St. Paul in 1903 and its largest manufacturing industry, with 900 employees. The company was based on taking wire grass, which grew in peat bogs…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2006: “My Years at the Andahazy School of Ballet”
Sandra Snell WeinbergMy Years at the Andahazy School of Ballet Author: Sandra Snell Weinberg At the age of eleven, the author took her first lessons at the Andahazy School of Classical Ballet at 1680 Grand Avenue. She was thrilled and read all the books she could find on dance. The Andahazy…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2006: “Rabies Scare in St. Paul ‘Mad Dog on the Loose.’ Panic Prevails as Fear Rips through the City in 1910”
Susan DowdRabies Scare in St. Paul ‘Mad Dog on the Loose.’ Panic Prevails as Fear Rips through the City in 1910 Author: Susan Dowd A short article that looks at two weeks of fear that began in St. Paul on April 13, 1901. On that day, a dog was reported…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2006: Book Reviews
Ramsey County Historical SocietyBook Reviews Dionicio Nodin Valdés, Mexicans in Minnesota (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2005). George Richard Slade, Banking in the Great Northern Territory: An Illustrated History (Afton, Minn.: Afton Historical Society Press, 2005). PDF of Book Reviews…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2006: Letters to the Editor
Ramsey County Historical SocietyPDF of Letters to the Editor…