I was born at Grand Rapids. Lived in Minneapolis and graduatrd from Wayzata High School and University of Minnesota many decades ago. My dad was an executive with Pillsbury for 30 years. He died in 2020 at age 102 up in Chisholm, Mn. My mom was born in Virginia, Mn. and died in 1988. Its a beautiful place or was. Dad lived a few miles from the place where the rivers run north to Hudson Bay just outside Chisholm. My entite family is buried there back at least 3 or 4 generations. The ancestors survived the 1862 Minnesota Massacre snd farmed near Little Falls, Staples, Belle Plaine, Crosby Ironton, and other places . My grandpa Alvah Alden was a lineman and eventually an electrical engineer for Minnesota Power amd Light. My uncles and aunts , parents and cousins are buried there. My brother snd sister still live there. I married a Minnesota boy who flew for Delta for 30 years. We moved south decades ago. But every time I hear the sound of a loon cry and see a field of corn or wheat or feel the fall wind on my face knowing winter is near - I think of home.
I'm 67. Born and raised in Warroad. Our house was on the river, a block from Lake of the Woods. Many great memories, l miss Minnesota. Thanks for these documentaries.
What a wonderful series of programs! I am 76 and have wonderful memories of visiting the museum as a child when it was on the Minneapolis campus. I loved the dioramas.
"Only after the last tree has been cut down... Only after the last river has been poisoned... Only after the last fish has been caught... Only then, will so called civilized men, find out that money cannot be eaten!" "CREE INDIAN PROVERB"
Only tomorrow is how mans greed is playing out when mother nature says Ive had enough and she just lets him go extinct out of necessity. When you do the math humans havent been on earth for .0001 percent of existance. Like a flash in the pan then youre gone physically forever. Losts of spirits wondering this universe some very happy because they only were true love some never to exsist for God has no place for them and hell has been overflowing for a long time. Its evident with those who only truly love thrmselves and they sure star in government and authority trickling. Downbto the children whoi become adults. The wotld is turning its back on God and his blessimgs to think its in property money and prestige. Wrong to all you banker brains. Justnlove they neighbor and be a steward of the land water wind and fire you might last longer thanbthe next jerk
Thankyou for this series on the history of Minnesota. My father was born in Tenny and the family farm was close to Wheaton. It has given me a much better understanding of the country. In about 1898 his family moved to western Canada.
THIS IS GREAT SHOW. IT MAKES ME ILL TO THINK, HOW PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID. WE HAVE ONLY 1 PLANET, BUT SEVERAL JOBS. My Grandparents homestead in St.james, known as THE SOUTH BRANCH AREA.IT pretty much looks the same today as yesterday. It's ALL farming except for the animals. The original house STILL BEING used. MY dad's old Lutheran school is gone now, BUT, he said GOD MADE Minnesota, FOR his PEOPLE. MY dad was a great man. So maybe THEY WERE right. Minneapolis was NOTHING like IT IS today! VERY SAD..
Great video. Now let's stop copper/nickel mining because it will ruin the Boundary Waters forever, hundreds of years after the mining companies went bankrupt....
With today population, would YOU really think people care? It's all about ME ME. ONE day SOON, I BELIEVE,we will see people will want Us.I know ,TO those people, I will say. I do not know you...Amen
That was the only way known to man... until we became wealthy and informed. Life was a real struggle. Let's not make the mistake of judging our ancestors by todays standards.
Yet the sprawl largely began with court-ordered forced busing. I remember seeing all the for sale signs pop up across south Minneapolis in the early 1970s. Everyone with kids packed up and moved to the far new suburbs. They didn't stop at Hopkins, Bloomington, Crystal and Richfield etc. They went for Lakeville, Burnsville, Minnetonka, Maple Grove and beyond. All those fields, woods, prairies and wetlands paved with homes and shopping malls. Downtown Minneapolis was where we shopped and it was wonderful. Packed transit buses with shoppers and workers. There were years with fewer than 10 murders in Minneapolis back then. This is the other side of the results of leftist idealism/activism. Changed the central cities from vibrant centers of commerce into welfare supported/crime-infested zones with sprawl in the outer rings and exurbs. Treated people like pawns on a chess board.
Court -ordered forced busing largely began because of the racist infrastructure of the education and financial system which 'red lined' neighborhoods created a paucity of quality education in black areas. The nostalgic remembrance of the 1950s is a memory of Jim Crow and huge disparities in economic and educational opportunities based on race. The central problem of race based inequality of opportunity has not been adequately addressed and is still contributing to horrible outcomes among those disadvantaged. The 'pawns' on a chessboard are still being manipulated with gerrymandering and voter suppression. Leftist 'idealism/activism' actually believes the Constitutional declaration that "all 'men' are created equal" and works to create a world where that 'ideal' is expressed. PS: Great video series. A serious look at how our past created the present - warts and all.
