A “Facebook for the Neighborhood” Expands St. Paul Excerpt from a feature by Julie Kendrick “The average person who is on Facebook has 229 friends, but only five of those Facebook friends are neighbors,” says Steve Clift, Executive Director of E-Democracy and the driving force behindBeNeighbors.org. “If you want to talk about neighborhood crime statistics, start [...]
Excerpt from a feature by Holly Dolezalek The theme for this year’s Challenge is “Working Together Across Cultures and Faiths.” It was chosen because the sponsors believe that as Minnesota becomes less white and Lutheran and more everything else all the time, understanding between people of different faiths and backgrounds becomes more critical. “For example, 17 [...]
DENMARK TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY Mavis Voigt 612-823-4934 rmvoigt@usfamily.net Did you attend a rural school or teach in one? Do you know someone who did? If so, the Denmark Township Historical Society wants to get to know you. The nonprofit group is in the process of buying one of the oldest one-room schoolhouses in the state, Valley [...]
Capturing hundreds of sequential Street View images from Google Maps using ScreenHunter software, then stitching them together and time-lapsing them in Windows Movie Maker, the peripatetic highway videographer who goes by the YouTube handle eluko79 has created a real-but-virtual photographic journey along Hennepin, Lyndale, East Hennepin, and Central avenues into Uptown, downtown, and the East Hennepin neighborhood. See the [...]
No state has developed in a more irrational manner than Florida. Its aging population is required to drive for nearly every trip. And its homes, for the most part, are separated from public and commercial activity by great distances. Sarasota (population 60,000) is an exception. It’s one of the few Florida cities to consciously redevelop [...]
The new Burnsville Historical Society found some noteworthy tidbits in boxes of old documents. “There are a lot of interesting stories about how things happened and where they are,” said Len Nachman, one of the group’s organizers. “It’s documented in bits and pieces.” Two hours and nine boxes later they had unearthed photos of County [...]
Weiming Lu is an internationally recognized urban planner and designer. He recently retired as president of Lowertown Redevelopment Corporations in St. Paul, Minnesota, which became a nation model of successful central city revitalization through public-private partnerships. Lu received his Master’s degree in Regional Planning in 1957 from the Department of City and Regional Planning at [...]
Excerpt from the Star Tribune, article by Don Jacobson. Historic preservation of landmark buildings has been one of the top sources of construction industry jobs in the last few years, and advocates say they’re determined to keep the work flowing through the extension of a state tax credit program. Bonnie MacDonald, executive director of the [...]
THE STATE WELCOMES YOU: MINNESOTA’S THIRD STATE HOSPITAL Of all the institutions and organizations in the history of Otter Tail County, the one that evokes the most interest is the Fergus Falls State Hospital. In the decades following its opening on July 31, 1890, the state hospital dominated the cultural and economic landscape of the [...]
Join history fans in the State Capitol Rotunda on Monday February 20, 2012, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., to show legislators that History Matters! Each year, historians gather at the Capitol to learn more about history activities across the state, and to let legislators know about the great educational work taking place with the help of state [...]
