Ramsey County History – Fall 1997: “Growing Up in St. Paul: A Childhood Revisited: The State Fish Hatchery and a Collision of the Past with the Present”

Growing Up in St. Paul: A Childhood Revisited: The State Fish Hatchery and a Collision of the Past with the Present

Author: Muriel Mix Hawkins

The author grew up in the old fish hatchery, beneath Dayton’s Bluff. She and her brother visited the mostly deserted site in 1987. This memoir recalls that visit and scenes and events from her youth—the family phonograph, Fibber McGee and Gopher football on the radio, the laundry chute and the coal chute, the ice house, the ponds, and the frogs. Memories of a happy childhood.

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