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Longfellow Field: The Park that Bombs Bought
If any park in Minneapolis should be a “memorial” park, perhaps it should be Longfellow Field, because it was bought and built with war profits. It would be hard to explain it any other way. The...
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Who, Exactly, Were the “Huns”?
Discussions of Minneapolis during World War I in a recent post have pointed to another factor that may have reinforced the willingness of the park board to sell the first Longfellow Field to...
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Francis A. Gross Autobiography I: North Minneapolis and the Origin of North...
My wish was granted. Last April, in an article about the original Longfellow Field and its sale to a munitions maker during WWI, I wrote, “Of all the park commissioners in Minneapolis history, Frank...
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Fear in the Hearts of Children: More from the Autobiography of Francis A. Gross
Last weekend I read Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota and Our Way or the Highway: Inside the Minnehaha Free State. That followed a recent rereading of Folwell’s History of Minnesota, Volume I,...
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Theodore Wirth, Francis Gross and Me: A Friday Photo and a Re-assessment
The dedication of Heffelfinger Fountain in Lyndale Park, 1947. This is the only photo I’ve seen of Theodore Wirth and Francis Gross together. They are joined by an even better-known Minneapolitan. From...
View ArticleMinneapolis Park Memory: Meetings with Grandpa
I feel so fortunate having our parks in Minneapolis. My late husband, Bob, used to tell how his mother saved her coins until she could buy a toboggan for the family to use in Minnehaha Park. I have...
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