Sleuth Your Stoop – Learn how to become your own house detective and where to start

St. John's Episcopal Church, Linden Hills 4201 Sheridan Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United States

So, you bought an old house in Minneapolis or St. Paul. Congratulations! How do you even begin to find out the history of who actually lived there? Local historian Kathy Kullberg will share tools and resources to find the answers and information that you have been wondering about your home's history. At the end of […]

Prince’s Side of the Street

St. John's Episcopal Church, Linden Hills 4201 Sheridan Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United States

By the time Prince was 18, he was a fully realized and accomplished artist who could walk into the Sound 80 studio in Minneapolis's Seward neighborhood and write, produce, record, sing, and perform all the instruments on his demo tape, and then land a major recording contract by the time he was 19. How did […]

Finding Homes for Our Treasures

Do you have material handed down from family? Letters, photos, maps of your hometown? Collections of Rosewood pottery? Ted Hathaway from Hennepin County Library-Minneapolis Central Library’s Special Collections, Yves Hoppie from Minnesota Historical Society Collections Dept., and Jonathan Campbell from H&B Gallery-antique shop will help us evaluate our possessions and learn what a repository or […]