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Peterson Bluebird Nest Box

A conservation success story that started in Brooklyn Center

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A field showing grass and trees in different shades of green. Three orange butterflies alight on stalks of flowers in the foreground.

Strutwear Knitting Company Strike

The longest of three major labor disputes in Minneapolis between 1935 and 1936

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Strutwear Knitting Company strike

Hungry Mind (bookstore)

A tiny St. Paul bookshop that grew into a regional favorite with a national reach

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Hungry Mind interior

Bohemian Flats

A resilient immigrant community in Minneapolis that outlasted floods and disease

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Bohemain Flats

Jun Fujita Cabin, Rainy Lake

The North Woods hideaway of an internationally renowned photographer

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Raymond, Leona Evelyn (1908–1998)

A sculptor who got her start in the WPA Federal Art Project

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Evelyn Raymond, 1959

St. Peter and St. Paul Russian Orthodox Church, Bramble

A sanctuary for Russian immigrants in Koochiching County

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St. Peter and St. Paul Russian Orthodox Church, Bramble

Flooding of the Red River, 1997

The eighth-costliest flood in US history

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This Day in Minnesota History (November 14)

1766

Englishman Jonathan Carver enters Wakan Tipi, the cave and sacred site in present-day St. Paul, long used by Dakota people, that white settler-colonists would come to call by his name (Carver's Cave). Carver writes in his diary: "...came to the great stone cave called by the Naudowessies [Dakota] the House of Spirits. This cave is doubtless a greater curiosity than my short stay and want of convenience allowed me to sufficiently explore."

1860

Telegraph service reaches Minneapolis.

1908

Harrison Salisbury is born in Minneapolis. A reporter and author, he was especially noted for his writing on the Soviet Union, and in 1955 he won the Pulitzer Prize for international correspondence.

1917

Mike O'Dowd, the "Cyclone of St. Paul," defeats Al McCoy to win boxing's middleweight title, which he holds until 1920.

1996

Author Meridel Le Sueur dies in Hudson, Wisconsin. Born in Murray, Iowa, on February 22, 1900, Le Sueur moved with her family to Minnesota when she was twelve. A reporter and the author of novels and short stories, she was blacklisted for being a member of the Communist Party. Her work was rediscovered and heralded by feminists in the 1970s.

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