Local author’s summer serial tells story of Iron Range labor history
“There once was a union maid, she never was afraid / Of goons and ginks and company finks . . .” Woody Guthrie, “The Union Maid” Union membership is down,... Read More
The owl babies of University Grove
The sight of two great horned owl chicks hanging out in the brushy commons on Northrup Street last week was a celebratory event for neighbors in the University Grove community... Read More
A giant mastadon, a blue toad and a few natural disasters
It was pure serendipity that St. Louis Park Middle School offered a math elective called Mini Golf Madness at the same time Can Can Wonderland put out a call for... Read More
Meet Nancy Koester: Minnesota Book Award winner
When former curator of the University of Minnesota’s prestigious Kerlan Collection, Karen Hoyle, insisted that Nancy Koester submit her book, Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life, as a candidate for... Read More
Meet Nancy Koester: Minnesota Book Award winner
When former curator of the University of Minnesota’s prestigious Kerlan Collection, Karen Hoyle, insisted that Nancy Koester submit her book, Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life, as a candidate for... Read More
The Centurions of SAP Elementary
When Colleen Osterbauer met with her third-grade teaching colleagues at St. Anthony Park Elementary School a couple of years ago to plan the upcoming year, the three veteran teachers realized... Read More
