Alphonzo O. Hoyt first viewed Lake Harriet in 1882 as a conductor on the steam powered Motor Line. Through 1923 he helped shape Linden Hills, initially with Henry Beard, then […]
At the turn of the century, mammoth steamboats and tourism began to leave the lake and Excelsior township and village began to dissolve into five communities, with Excelsior taking its […]
Dr. Christopher P. Lehman, author of It Took Courage: Eliza Winston’s Quest for Freedom, will talk about the life of enslaved woman Eliza Winston and her persistence in her pursuit of […]
The Westgate Theater opened in 1935 as a neighborhood showplace in Edina, across Sunnyside Road from the Convention Grill. For decades it survived on second‑run features, long after bigger downtown […]