BY KATHLEEN KULLBERG WHAT DO WCCO RADIO and Eleanor Nesbitt Poehler have in common? Wait, you haven’t heard of Eleanor Nesbitt Poehler? Without her, WCCO may not have begun transmitting across Minnesota’s airwaves in 1924. And the popular radio medium might have [...]
May 2, 2023 by Charlie Maguire Returning home from a dinner on February 6, 1947, Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey asked armed police chauffeur Vern Bartholomew to pull to the curb in front of his modest but distinctive looking home in a [...]
March 28, 2023 Jumping the tracks, paying the freight by Bill Beyer Several railroads raced west from Minneapolis after the Civil War, slicing through St. Louis Park and Hopkins. In 1867, the northern route became James J. Hills Great Northern (now [...]
January 3, 2023 Rainbow Chinese, 2739 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis. by Carissa Thomas YOU CAN EAT YOUR WAY around the globe when you visit Eat Street in Minneapolis. A hungry visitor can experience diverse cuisines offered within a few blocks [...]
November 30, 2022 by Ames Sheldon Remarkable advances in heart surgery were forged at the Variety Club Heart Hospital at the University of Minnesota during the 1950s. This is the hospital where Drs. F. John Lewis, Richard Varco, C. Walton Lillehei, [...]
October 4, 2022 The Rollling Stones at their first Minnesota concert, Big Reggie's Danceland, Excelsior, June 12, 1964. Photo by Mike Waggoneer by William Burleson When the Rolling Stones came to U.S. Bank Stadium October 24, 2021, they put [...]
September 6, 2022 AMONG many University of Minnesota scholarships is one named after Wen Ping Pan, a Chinese American athletic champion who came to the US in 1914 to follow his dreams and then made Minnesota his home. Wen Ping Pan [...]
July 28, 2022 The Glen Lake Sanatorium East Cottage, with fresh air tent. 1920.Courtesy of Hopkins Historical Society. What a marvel for scientists in the late 19th century to actually see what they theorized was making people ill. The [...]
June 30, 2022 by Sue Dorweiler If you set out to raise more than $1,000,000 for your community, how would you do it? Maybe you’d do what the folks in Hamel, Minnesota, did more than 40 years ago when they held [...]
May 27, 2022 To find Excelsior’s segment of the Yellowstone Trail, head west on Highway 7, turn right on Eureka Road, right on Mann Lane, right on Seamans Drive. You’ll practically be back on Highway 7 as the road curves [...]
