Pre-order your Big Fish t-shirt and get ready to sport this stylish and whimsical tee featuring The Big Fish from Bena, MN! Every shirt purchased goes to support the mission of the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota. The shirts are unisex, 100% ringspun cotton that are super soft and won’t shrink. Minnesota is blessed with a [...]
Friends, advocates, supporters: It is with both sadness and excitement that I announce to you that I am resigning from my role as Executive Director of the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota (PAM) effective the end of May. I will be leaving Minnesota in June having accepted a new opportunity as President of Landmarks Illinois, Illinois’ [...]
Michele Anderson is a Fergus Falls resident and program director for the Lakes Region Springboard for the Arts. She shared her Letter to the Editor with us, and we’d like to share it with you. In any community, every challenge and problem, no matter how desperate it seems, presents potential for creating something more distinct [...]
A little over a week ago, PAM blog staple Kate Scott wrote a piece on forest fire lookout towers. This led us to two thoughts. First, “it’s some great writing on an interesting topic, so we should repost it.” Done! I’ve recently become sort of enamored with forest fire lookout towers. Scattered in state and [...]
This letter was sent to the Fergus Falls Daily Journal recently, you can find the original link here. Christian is not alone in his situation, we have heard from people all across the country (Hawaii and Kansas just to mention a couple) asking if there is anything they can do to help save the [...]
This is part two of a detective story that originally appeared on Lisa Peters’ “Bridge Number 9.” We thank her for allowing us to share it. Part One, for those who missed it, is available here. Last month, I declared that a southern Minnesota tile-maker, A. C. Ochs, had probably made the 100-year-old Pillsbury grain [...]
This post originally appeared on Lisa Peters’ “Bridge Number 9.” We thank her for allowing us to share it here. Stay tuned for Part Two; there’s a twist! UPDATE: Part Two now available. Not every neighborhood has a 100-year-old red tile grain elevator. I’ve strolled past this Main Street landmark a million times and not [...]
Established in 1869, this land grant institution is located in both Minneapolis and St. Paul on two separate campuses. The Minneapolis campus sits on two sides of a 100-foot high plateau overlooking a bend in the Mississippi River, with the Washington Avenue Bridge connecting the 307-acre East Bank and 53-acre West Bank. In 1892, H.W.S. [...]
This post originally appeared on Preservation in Pink, thanks to them for allowing us to share. Lately, I have been thinking about historic preservation and how it is viewed by non-preservationists. Non-preservationists can be those who may be interested in but do not define themselves as preservationists, those who are generally uninterested in the field or [...]
This article from Atlantic Cities about the fate of a number of the arenas for the “Original 6″ teams in the NHL caught my eye because I am a diehard Boston Bruins fan and one of my strongest childhood memories is being in a car, driving past the half-demolished Boston Garden. Some may have [...]
