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Bryan Hansel

I took this photo while on a guided tour of the Wabasha Street Caves in St. Paul, which were a 1930s Prohibition era gangster hangout. The tour guide was briefly here talking about the caves behind him. They were filled with the wreckage of a flood. I can't figure out where that shadow above him is coming from. These caves are supposedly haunted due to a gangster shootout that happened there.

A photo of a man standing in a cave on top of a small step ladder with a bright shop light pointing at him there's an easel behind him casting on the shadow on the wall and then above him it looks like there's an arm with a beer bottle or something in it about to smack the guy on the head. But there's no real indication on where that shadow is coming from. Is it a ghost?
#Photography#Minnesota#ghost
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Bruce MacDonald

"No doubt there are hunters and anglers who’d rather go down fighting than join hands with tree huggers, as it were. But before they self-destruct they should ask themselves how many people they know who chase pheasants or hunt deer, vs., for example, those who ride bikes, feed birds, hike or paddle a canoe."
startribune.com/anderson-minne

www.startribune.com · Anderson: Minnesota conservation ranks need to grow with birders, bikers joining hunters, anglersTimes have changed, and resource threats require the union of ‘guns and greens.’
#Minnesota#outdoors#conservation
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Bruce MacDonald

This story idea reminds me of the old adage, "Every generation thinks it discovered sex!"

'Last month, the Minnesota Senate agreed to modify the existing statute around sexual health education by replacing the expression “technically accurate” with “medically accurate” in describing the facts around what’s to be taught. The measure also removes “until marriage” language. It currently lives in the Senate policy omnibus education bill.'
mprnews.org/story/2025/04/04/s

MPR News · Sex ed in Minnesota schools is up for a rewrite: 4 things to knowBy Sam Stroozas
#Minnesota#SexEducation#mnleg
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Bruce MacDonald

Glensheen has lost much of its notoriety to history in the years since it emerged as the site of one of Minnesota’s most unusual murder cases.

A beautiful estate on London Road in Duluth, it was also used as a film location for the movie "You'll Like My Mother," starring Patty Duke.
archive.org/details/youll-like

Internet ArchiveYou'll Like My Mother (1972) : Charles A. Pratt : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveAlso known as Nightmare in the Snow.
#Minnesota#film#architecture
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Bruce MacDonald

Value history.

"It seems Glensheen is a spot for entertainment first and education second. Yet, over the past two years, I’ve met some incredible strangers. Some come in with a pencil and paper, sit down in a room for an hour, and draw. Some are carpenters who light up when they see the woodwork. Some people have personal connections with the house or the people who lived there. Amazing conversations come about with these visitors. I have learned more about woodworking, art, electrical engineering, and life in Duluth than I ever expected."
duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/

Superior High School student Koda Bosma uses a phone to take a photograph in the hallway at Glensheen Mansion
Duluth News Tribune · Local View: Glensheen a reminder that history creates communityFrom the column: "Local gems like museums and the Twin Ports Festival of History not only provide entertainment but connect people."
#history#Duluth#Minnesota
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Bruce MacDonald

Arachnids in the news.

“What we try to remind people is yes, it's scary, but it is really rare,” said Elizabeth Schiffman, a Minnesota Department of Health epidemiologist specializing in mosquito- and tick-transmitted diseases. “Don't forget to do all those prevention things that we talk about that no one ever wants to do because they're boring and not fun. Do your tick checks. Know when your risk is highest.”
duluthnewstribune.com/sports/n

Duluth News Tribune · Tick-borne Powassan virus creeps into MinnesotaNo treatment or vaccine is available for the potentially fatal illness.
#Minnesota#ticks#outdoors
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Levka

#Minnesota #fascism #labor #history #GeneralStrike

"Union leaders have pointed to the importance of building worker power in response to division attempts. 'When they come after one group, they come for us all,' said Association of Flight Attendants International President Sara Nelson at a rally for Delta Air Lines workers in January. 'Nothing on this Earth turns without us. If we understand our power in this moment and we organize together and have each other’s backs, we can take action. Strike action, organized action, moral action.'

In an interview with Bob Hennelly, Nelson said that after the elimination of collective bargaining rights for Transportation Security Administration workers by the Department of Homeland Security, workers have 'very few options but to join together to organize a general strike.'

On March 27, President Trump signed an executive order to end collective bargaining for many federal employees, which Minnesota AFL-CIO president Bernie Burnham has called 'unprecedented union busting.'

The Minnesota AFL-CIO also released a statement on January 26 in support of immigrant workers. 'Trump and his billionaire friends are counting on workers to turn on one another while they cut their own taxes, gut worker safety standards, roll back union rights, and more,' the statement reads. 'Every worker should remember that an immigrant doesn’t stand between you and a better life – a billionaire does.'

Workers have a long and storied history of resisting attempts to pit them against each other. We found examples specific to Minnesota’s labor movement, which has a militant legacy that can be learned from today. Workers organized and mobilized to take defensive and offensive measures against various forces—hate groups, corporations, and corporate-backed elected officials—that sought to violently divide their communities and hoard resources."

workdaymagazine.org/three-time

Workday Magazine · Three Times Workers Resisted Fascism in Minnesota History - Workday MagazineHistorical examples of workers resisting the oligarchical forces of fascism and authoritarianism.
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Bruce MacDonald

Crop art in the news.

“This is a perfect art, crop art,” [U.S. District Judge John] Tunheim said. “My staff and I, each year we have a day where we go to the State Fair, and usually the first stop ― maybe after the dairy building ― is the crop art installation. We never miss it.”

Some of the crop art in this show has been shown at the State Fair, but others were made for this exhibition.
startribune.com/seeds-of-justi

www.startribune.com · ‘Seeds of Justice’ crop art exhibition at U.S. Courthouse in Minneapolis takes on the lawSeventeen crop artists display work that plants questions about law, social justice and protests.
#CropArt#Minneapolis#Minnesota
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