• 20th Century – Excelsior and the South Shore

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

    Learn about the streetcars that connected Lake Harriet with Lake Minnetonka and more. At the turn of the century, mammoth steamboats and tourism began to leave Lake Minnetonka, and Excelsior […]

  • It took Courage: Eliza Winston’s Quest for Freedom

    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 […]

  • Westgate Theater and John Gaspard’s Held Over

    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 […]