Patrick Coleman writes: LeSueur was perhaps Minnesota’s most famous proletarian writer, so it is not surprising that she wrote about the humble people of Saint Paul’s Swede Hollow. The following selection was written during Prohibition, ushered in by passage of the...
My name is Paw Ree Say. I was born in Burma in Bo Ka Lay City, and I have two brothers and four sisters. I have been in Saint Paul since January 30, 2008. When I arrived at the airport my sister and her family came to the airport to pick up my family, and when I saw...
I’ve lived in Dayton’s Bluff just a few blocks from the Mounds Theatre all my life, but not for the whole life of the Mounds Theatre. It was built in 1922, and I was born twenty-nine years later. The Mounds started out as a silent movie house. It was billed as “The...
it is impossible to miss the red bird the only ember alive this snowy March this gray March this bitter March this windblown dismal pewter listless day Carol Pearce Bjorlie grew up in Richmond, Virginia, which she considers the source of her writer’s voice. She...
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