Ramsey County History Podcast #3 – Fall 2014: The German Friend; MNopedia

Part 1: What can an anti-Nazi writer and intellectual, exiled in the United States, do for his beloved Germany? Nearly eighty years ago, Prince Hubertus zu Lowenstein visited St. Paul and met Hamline University student John Larson. A lifelong friendship and flood of letters ensued. Larson assembled some of these letters, from World War II and after, into a book entitled The German Friend. We interviewed Mr. Larson at his home in Taylors Falls.

Part 2: The Minnesota Historical Society has created a new venture called MNopedia: short-form articles of state history — including  Ramsey County stories — in an online encyclopedia. We interviewed MNopedia’s then-editor, Molly Huber.