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 on Nicollet Avenue [...]
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, and Mansur Taufic [...]
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 on what was by [...]
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 was born on October [...]
Glen Lake Sanatorium, main infirmary building and east wing, with top-floor open terraces.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 world of [...]
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 their “first annual” Hamel [...]
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 into the Yellowstone Trail. [...]
Before Marian Anderson was denied Constitution Hall, Minneapolis’ Dyckman Hotel refused the famous contralto lodging by Jokeda “JoJo” Bell Marian Anderson’s most famous challenge to American Jim Crow occurred during her April 9, 1939, performance at the Lincoln Memorial. After the Daughters [...]
Mr. James (Mike) Andrews, Field Elementary School social scienceteacher and woodshop teacher. MOST PEOPLE CAN RECALL a teacher who made a difference in their lives, someone who treated them with respect and believed in them. For me and many others [...]
Photo courtesy Irac Nathanson. By Iric Nathason When Minneapolis skyways first appeared in the early 1960s, local skeptics questioned the long-term viability of these new pedestrian walkways that spanned downtown streets. But skeptics were won over as skyways began to [...]
