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“Christmas Eve on the Flats”
Creator: Alex Magnolia
First Published: August 14, 2025
From the 1860s to 1931, thousands of people built homes on the west bank of the Mississippi River as it wends through Minneapolis, just south of St. Anthony Falls. The diverse immigrant ...
Reverend Moses Dickson
Creator: Karen Sieber
First Published: August 08, 2025
On March 24, 1857, abolitionist and St. Paul resident Moses Dickson wrote a scathing open letter to the Minnesota Weekly Times about freedom, democracy, and citizenship for Black Americans. ...
Joseph Farr
Creator: Karen Sieber
First Published: July 25, 2025
Although long ignored in Underground Railroad scholarship, evidence indicates that small groups of Black and white abolitionists in Minnesota aided freedom seekers at different times and ...
Evelyn Raymond, undated
Creator: Marjorie Savage
First Published: July 21, 2025
Leona Evelyn Raymond is remembered for the large architectural sculptures she designed and named for such virtues as love, family, and peace. For sixty years, she taught workshops and ...
Fr. Hillary Madison and Archbishop John Garklavs
Creator: Erich Lippman
First Published: July 01, 2025
Active only from 1918 until 1932, St. Peter and St. Paul Russian Orthodox Church in Bramble served a small number of farming families who had ventured north from Chisholm to claim ...
Gay Pride Day in Minneapolis, 1975
First Published: June 27, 2025
In December of 1975, the Minneapolis City Council passed the first non-discrimination protections covering trans and gender-non-conforming people in American history. Approved with little ...
Quatrefoil Library
Creator: Karl Nycklemoe
First Published: June 10, 2025
Quatrefoil Library is a non-profit lending library and community center in Minneapolis that specializes in LGBTQIA+ material. Its circulating collections include books, DVDs, and CDs, but ...
Aerial view of East Grand Forks, flooded.
Creator: Tom Weber
First Published: June 10, 2025
Flooding on the Red River in April and May 1997 set twentieth-century records at most locations along the Minnesota–North Dakota border and into Manitoba, Canada. At the time, it was the ...