Bring Warm Clothes: Letters and Photos from Minnesota’s Past

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 those
early, challenging days. In her presentation, Meier will explain how she went about researching
the archives and, in doing so, some of the “simply amazing” people she encountered. Copies of
the new edition of Bring Warm Clothes will be available for purchase.

Two Historic Neighborhood Churches – Sussman, Plumb, and Schumacher – 2023-12-02

Anglo-Dakota Women Straddling Cultures in the Early 19th Century

Program presenter Dr. Jane Lamm Carroll will examine the experiences of four granddaughters of Chief Cloudman, bicultural women who grew up near Lake Harriet; and of another Anglo-Dakota, Daybreak Woman, who was born and raised in a Mdewakanton band at a trading post on the Minnesota River. Compared to their peers, how did these women of mixed parentage identify, socialize, and navigate language, culture, marriage, family life, and aging? Were they comfortable or at ease in the Anglo-American or the Dakota communities?

Dr. Carroll is author of the award-winning book, Daybreak Woman: An Anglo-Dakota Life, and professor of history and women’s studies at St. Catherine University.

Origins of the Minneapolis Sound – Rick Shefchik and Andrea Swensson – 2023-10-16

1830s ABCFM Missions in Minnesota – Linda Bryan – 2023-09-11

Bde Maka Ska: From Dakota Village to Cottage City – Landscape and Community Transitions

Walking tour with Peter Sussman. Meet at the southeast corner of West Bde Maka Ska Parkway and Thomas Avenue S.

Suggested donation of $5 for non-LHHSG members.

History of Wood Lake – Bob Glancy – 2023-05-13

Cottage City Transitions – walking tour with Peter Sussman

Since 1883 Cottage City has experienced on-going transition. From the beginning, modest lake cottages built on small lots south of Bde Maka Ska have been replaced by bigger homes. Our tour will recall the initial community and consider the twin impacts of evolving design styles and recent larger-scale buildings.

We will meet at the southeast corner of Thomas Avenue South and West Bde Maka Ska Parkway.
The tour will be held rain or shine — except if an electrical storm is forecasted the morning of the tour.

Suggested donation at the walking tour will be $5 for non-members of LHHSG.