Twin Cities Area

The Eight Days in May Protests

June 3, 2015
7 min read

For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...

Greater Minnesota

Munger Terrace In Duluth

November 23, 2021
2 min read

Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...

Rainy Lake Gold Rush

February 18, 2016
4 min read

When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...

Dead Good Walks

Maple Hill Cemetery

April 18, 2011
2 min read

Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...

Who the heck was...

Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?

September 10, 2019
4 min read

Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...

Roadtrips

Punished Woman’s Lake

March 15, 2023
2 min read

I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

Carnegie Library In Watertown

August 17, 2023
2 min read

The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

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