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Ramsey County History – Spring 1992: “Fifty Year Later—A Survivor’s Memories of the Bataan Death March”
Philip S. Brain Jr.Fifty Year Later—A Survivor’s Memories of the Bataan Death March Author: Philip S. Brain Jr. “The line beneath life and death is very narrow.” The first line of this memoir sets the tone. The author spent almost all of World War II as a prisoner of the Japanese. His account,…
Ramsey County History – Spring 1992: “Growing Up in St. Paul: Years of Depression, Gangsters, Good Schools”
Willard L. BoydGrowing Up in St. Paul: Years of Depression, Gangsters, Good Schools Author: Willard L. (Sandy) Boyd The author grew up in idyllic St. Anthony Park in the 1920s and ’30s. Memory lane is fully occupied: Guttersen School, the farm campus, John Dillinger, the Midtown Theater, and Murray High School. The author…
Ramsey County History – Spring 1992: “Recovering St. Paul’s Fish Hatchery: A ‘Pretty Little Valley’ with Idyllic Charm”
Robert StummRecovering St. Paul’s Fish Hatchery: A ‘Pretty Little Valley’ with Idyllic Charm Author: Robert Stumm Minnesota’s first state fish hatchery occupied an obscure angle of St. Paul, just south of Indian Mounds Park near the railroad yards and, later, the sewage treatment plant. For a few decades it was not only…
Ramsey County History – Spring 1992: “The Earl of Selkirk and His Utopian Dream”
Ronald M. HubbsThe Earl of Selkirk and His Utopian Dream Author: Ronald M. Hubbs Some of the first, and still remembered, settlers of St. Paul were refugees from the Selkirk Colony near today’s Winnipeg. This short piece tells the story of its conception, creation, creators, and fate. Its failure was Minnesota’s gain.
Ramsey County History – Spring 1992: “What’s Historic About This Site? The St. Anthony Park Branch Library”
Ramsey County Historical SocietyWhat’s Historic About This Site? The St. Anthony Park Branch Library This is one of four Carnegie library buildings in St. Paul. This short, one-page article tells the story of its creation and its intimate relation with the Ramsey County Historical Society. PDF of Historic Site …
Ramsey County History – Spring 1992: Book Reviews
Ramsey County Historical SocietyAlbro Martin, James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976; paperback reprint edition, St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1991). Carl Crislock, Watchdog of Loyalty: The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1991). PDF of Book Reviews…
Ramsey County History – Spring 1992: Letters to the Editor
Ramsey County Historical SocietyPDF of Letters to the Editor…
Ramsey County History – Winter 1991: “St. Paul’s First Shot Veterans: The Crew of the U.S.S. Ward and the Attack on Pearl Harbor”
Jane McClureSt. Paul’s First Shot Veterans: The Crew of the U.S.S. Ward and the Attack on Pearl Harbor Author: Jane McClure The U.S.S. Ward, a destroyer, served in combat for precisely three years, December 7, 1941 to December 6, 1944. Manned by naval reservists from St. Paul, the Ward saw combat…
Ramsey County History – Winter 1991: “Help, Housing ‘Almost Impossible to Find’: A Single Mother and World War II”
Hilda RacheyHelp, Housing ‘Almost Impossible to Find’: A Single Mother and World War II Author: Hilda Rachey The trials of a young, single, working mother of two in St. Paul during World War II. She had to scramble time and again to find housing and child care (both often inadequate), deal…