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History is not boring — our neighbors agree

2023-09-02T13:05:05-05:00

June 30, 2023 Linden Hills History Study Group by JoEllen Haugo For more than 26 years the Linden Hills History Study Group (LHHSG) has offered local history programs in Southwest Minneapolis. The organization was initiated by history-loving neighbors. Some were volunteers [...]

History is not boring — our neighbors agree2023-09-02T13:05:05-05:00

Minneapolis Mayor Under Fire

2023-09-02T12:58:10-05:00

This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, 2023, Vol. 82, No. 1 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 [...]

Minneapolis Mayor Under Fire2023-09-02T12:58:10-05:00

OUR BUILT HISTORY

2023-09-02T12:53:52-05:00

Jumping the tracks, paying the freight by Bill Beyer This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, 2022, Vol. 81, No. 3 Several railroads raced west from Minneapolis after the Civil War, slicing through St. Louis Park and Hopkins. In 1867, [...]

OUR BUILT HISTORY2023-09-02T12:53:52-05:00

Mending Hearts 

2023-09-02T12:45:22-05:00

This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, 2022, Vol. 81, No. 3 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 [...]

Mending Hearts 2023-09-02T12:45:22-05:00

What would happen if the Rolling Stones held a concert, and nobody came?

2023-09-02T12:41:24-05:00

This article was originally published in Hennepin History Magazine, 2022, Vol. 81, No. 2 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 [...]

What would happen if the Rolling Stones held a concert, and nobody came?2023-09-02T12:41:24-05:00

Hygiene and housing: the sleeping porch in Minnesota

2023-05-13T14:47:51-05:00

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 [...]

Hygiene and housing: the sleeping porch in Minnesota2023-05-13T14:47:51-05:00

Forty years of family fun at the Hamel Rodeo

2023-05-04T11:05:22-05:00

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 [...]

Forty years of family fun at the Hamel Rodeo2023-05-04T11:05:22-05:00
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