Peg Meier, longtime and award-winning reporter for the Star Tribune, will talk about the recently released new edition of her beloved book Bring Warm Clothes: Letters and Photos from Minnesota’s Past. She uses vintage photographs, newspaper clippings, letters, and excerpts from secret diaries and personal journals, to give us a firsthand account of life in […]

Are you new to the Linden Hills area or a long-time resident who would like to know more about your neighborhood? Enjoy an informative evening with an abbreviated version of Linden Hills's rich history: early Native American villages, Lake Harriet pavilions, streetcars, a vibrant business district, and the interesting people whose efforts built this special […]

Through memories, research, and photographs, descendants of four families who put down roots in different parts of Linden Hills will compare and contrast their personal experiences and those of their forebears, building homes and navigating events of the Twentieth Century. Politicians, writers, publishers, industrialists, developers, church elders, and neighbors: we’ll find some of their challenges […]

Our speaker, Tom Trow, is the lead archaeologist for the effort to open to the public a long- hidden archaeological and cultural site in Mower County, MN. For about 400 years, ending in around 1400 CE, the Grand Meadow Chert Quarry was the most important place in southeastern MN and possibly the whole state, at […]

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the federal government under President Franklin Roosevelt undertook a major investment in public infrastructure to fight unemployment and keep the economy afloat. Although it has been over 80 years since those projects were completed, many are still in place, functioning for what they were designed to do. Aaron […]

Thomas Barlow (T.B.) Walker and Harriet Granger Hulet married and moved from Ohio to Minneapolis in 1863. They had eight children. T.B. began as a land surveyor. By 1923, he transitioned successfully to the lumber industry and became one of the ten wealthiest people in the world. T.B. and Harriet were both philanthropy leaders in […]

You live in an older house in the Twin Cities. Congratulations! Do you wonder when it was built? For how much? Who lived there? What did it look like? What were the surroundings? Local historian Kathy Kullberg will share the tools and resources to find those answers, and other interesting details of your building’s history. […]

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 […]

Bob Fine — and family members — will reflect on the people, places, and experiences of Linden Hills in the 1950s. Bob grew up hanging out at the library, the lake, and the parks. He graduated from Southwest High School and the University of Minnesota and came back to Linden Hills after law school in […]

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 […]