Until the early morning hours of June 12, when a 35-year-old man who lives nearby allegedly torched Frankenstein. He’s been charged with felony arson and damage to property. Only the skeleton remains of the sculpture valued at an estimated $14,000. A side view of Frankenstein photographed...
hours to be determined. The 1882 building, which is in Faribault’s Historic Commercial District and on the National Register of Historic Places, is one of 13 purchased by a local investment group in an effort to revitalize downtown. Originally, the structure housed Dandelet...
I decided to walk through Greenwich Village and see what I could come up with. Halloween night in the Village in 1989 was both more anarchic and friendlier than the current corporate version of Halloween. I walked through the streets, noting the drag costumes, which would today be categorized ...
Passengers enjoy exploring the Buffalo Trading Post in Big Valley before heading back to Stettler. (Lisa Joy/Black Press) Passengers leave the train and step back in time into a bustling Wild West village of Big Valley with historic attractions including a jail where young cowboys,...
(Not that she is going to walk an hour to the village for school), but I guess I am concerned that Miss Lili will need some sort of ‘proof’ of education out in the ‘other world’, if she chooses to go out there in the future. OH, CONGRATULATIONS ON THE NEW PRAIRIE BABY GIRL...
I replied that I had one of those, and he said, “Good. Come by the office tomorrow.” I hung up, dazed. Of course I didn’t have anything of the kind, and of course I was determined to write one that night. I decided to walk through Greenwich Village and see what I could ...
This folding polling booth, patented in March 1892, is on display at the Village of Yesteryear in Owatonna. It comes from the Meriden Town Hall, where voters used it until 2009. Minnesota Prairie Roots file photo July 2012. If you have not yet voted, then get to your polling place today...
Centers for Healing filling to capacity. He gloated in his success and that of his cousins, enlisted to help with the cause. His Office of Misinformation labored into the wee hours disseminating falsehoods, which quickly passed via word-of-mouth from village to village and then into the ...
It is stories and remembrances like this which make a building like the old blacksmith shop more than just a structure occupying space at a site such as the Village of Yesteryear. Stories connect buildings to people and to the past.
Dressed in our buffalo plaid flannel shirts—and I’m wearing one right now while typing this post—we embrace our identity as practical people. We don our flannels and our snow boots, fish on frozen lakes, shovel snow and long for summer, although we’re not going to tell you that. ...