December 29, 2021 There was a popular song in the early 90s called "Let's Talk About Sex." Needless to say, the music video got a lot of attention, but the song wasn’t bad either. It held up because the premise made [...]
April 30, 2021 Southeast Minneapolis Council on Learning had a formula for better education that looked like this: (SEMCOL)NEW+LD+SEREADS=BE or SEMCOL/NEW+LD=BE. Math was not my forte, but one of those statements must be true. The SEMCOL records are currently being processed and organized to be [...]
September 4, 2018 Archival donations come to the museum through a variety of sources. This past spring the archive received a donation from Walker Methodist Care Center. Dr. Hayward McKerson had passed away in December 2017 and with no known surviving family members, the care center reached out to the [...]
March 15, 2018 This navy colored, wool cape was worn by Cora Eleanor (Hanson) Stahn during her years as a nursing student (1942-1944) at the Fairview Hospital School of Nursing in Minneapolis. Capes were given out to nursing students in the [...]
August 30, 2017 By Evan Walker Today’s Object Lesson might be one of the most exciting objects so far--at least to photograph. At almost 5 feet wide by 3 feet deep, the only way to fit the entire desk in the [...]
