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Ramsey County History – Summer 1992: “What’s Historic About This Site? The Cyrus B. Cobb House in White Bear Lake”
Ramsey County Historical SocietyWhat’s Historic About This Site? The Cyrus B. Cobb House in White Bear Lake Built in 1885 for a local merchant, this is “one of the most intact of the surviving Victorian era houses in White Bear Lake . . . .” PDF of Historic Site…
Ramsey County History – Summer 1992: Book Reviews
Ramsey County Historical SocietyMaud Hart Lovelace, Early Candlelight, reprint edition with an introduction by Rhoda Gilman (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1992). John L. Relf, The Man Whose Dream Came True (Dellwood, Minn.: John L. Relf, 1991). Moira F. Harris, Monumental Minnesota: A Guide to Outdoor Sculpture (Minneapolis: Pogo Press, 1992). PDF of Book Reviews…
Ramsey County History – Summer 1992: Letters to the Editor
Ramsey County Historical SocietyPDF of Letters to the Editor…
Ramsey County History – Summer 1992: “A Matter of Time”
Ramsey County Historical SocietyPDF of A Matter of Time…
Ramsey County History – Spring 1992: “A Nationwide Sense of Crisis: The 1922 Shopmen’s Strike in St. Paul and the Northwest”
W. Thomas WhiteA Nationwide Sense of Crisis: The 1922 Shopmen’s Strike in St. Paul and the Northwest Author: W. Thomas White The 1922 rail strike was the most severe since 1894. Workers endured the loss of a wildcat strike in 1920, then a series of wage reductions. On July 1 some 400,000…
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.