Dan Olson
Twenty years later the center hums with kids and parents as they make structures with wooden blocks, inflate a mini hot air balloon, talk into the echo tube among the more than forty activities and exhibits there. Read more →
MPR News From our outstate correspondents
By Dan Olson
The Chester Bowl partisans rallied and created a 501c3 that funnels donations to pay salaries of as many as 20 part time and full time workers including Thom Storm. Read more →
The society has millions of documents and objects in its collection – everything from first editions of Sinclair Lewis’ “Main Street” and “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald to bandolier bags and even a North Shore tourist cabin – roof, floor and walls. Read more →
These days the counters are armed with binoculars and smart phones with apps for bird songs and calls that help them identify species. Read more →
The Latin influence is from Amelia’s life in Guatemala where she was raised. Read more →
Marian, who is 98 and lives in Bloomington, says she and the four women she served with became very close in part because they had no choice; they all lived in the same room. Read more →
Every year the Remembering With Dignity organizers and volunteers have observances and place markers at cemeteries around Minnesota where state hospital residents were buried and identified with only a numbered brick. Read more →
It comes with making birch bark boxes adorned with patterns Losh creates from the barbed, needle-like hair. Read more →
Butch Thompson is happy to report that interest in traditional New Orleans style jazz is strong, especially among audiences in Europe where he tours regularly. An overflow audience at a performance earlier this month shows Twin Cities jazz aficionados turn out big time as well. Read more →
The butterflies born here are on their way south, and their offspring will eventually reach the mountain forests in central Mexico to spend the winter. Read more →