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Our Friends at MDL

2024-04-05T12:06:19-05:00

Explore Hennepin County History Online with the Minnesota Digital Library By Stephanie Hess, Minnesota Digital Library Digital Curator St. Anthony Falls milling district with trestle bridge and Stone Arch Bridge, Minneapolis, 1895. The Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) contains digitized [...]

Our Friends at MDL2024-04-05T12:06:19-05:00

Minnesota Pandemic Oral History

2023-12-30T12:10:28-06:00

Just when I thought it was safe to go to public gatherings without a mask – healthy immune system, fully vaccinated, small group of people, COVID jumped all over me! The new variant of the virus saw me as “fresh meat” [...]

Minnesota Pandemic Oral History2023-12-30T12:10:28-06:00

Ȟaȟa Wakpadaŋ = VCPC + LA²

2023-06-08T14:48:39-05:00

The equation in the title came about as a way for me to remember what I was writing about. Ȟaȟa Wakpadaŋ is the Dakota name for Bassett Creek. In 2021, Valley Community Presbyterian Church (VCPC) sought to take its land acknowledgement [...]

Ȟaȟa Wakpadaŋ = VCPC + LA²2023-06-08T14:48:39-05:00

Frederick Roach: The everyman’s bike seller

2023-05-04T10:48:48-05:00

January 4, 2023 1902 Frederick Roach bike shop at 519 Hennepin Ave. From Hennepin History Museum photo collection. Did you get one of these for Christmas?  Perhaps you found a horse under your tree, but more likely you’ve gotten [...]

Frederick Roach: The everyman’s bike seller2023-05-04T10:48:48-05:00

The Memory Lab

2023-07-22T10:28:32-05:00

September 6, 2022 This is a screenshot of an image in the digitization process in the Hennepin History Museum Memory Lab. Did you know that Hennepin History Museum has a memory lab? That sounds like it could be either [...]

The Memory Lab2023-07-22T10:28:32-05:00
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