Ramsey County History – Fall 2002: “Growing Up In St Paul: Seeing, Talking to, Calling on Sprits: Grandma Minda’s Adventures in Spiritualism”

Growing Up In St Paul: Seeing, Talking to, Calling on Sprits: Grandma Minda’s Adventures in Spiritualism
Author: Joanne Englund

This is the story of Minda Sands, a Scandinavian woman as remembered and written by her granddaughter. Minda and her husband bought a lot on Edmund Street between Albert and Pascal streets, living in tents and then an alley house until a large home was completed in 1916. Minda worked at the Bonn refrigerator during World War I. Paul died in the 1918 flu epidemic, and Minda had to carry on alone for most of her remaining years, raising her children, working at different jobs, and participating in the social life during the 1930s and ’40s. Minda had a great interest in spiritualism that lasted until her death at age ninety-five.
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