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Native American mother and child look at Coldwater Spring and hope that in the future it will be known as a sacred site.
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Coldwater: The new history
BY SUSU JEFFREY
“We begin history here in 1820,” John Anfinson said in a KFAI radio interview.
Chief of natural and cultural resources for the National Park Service (NPS), Anfinson is the architect of the Coldwater Park redux.
In 1820, U.S. soldiers took possession of Coldwater Springs and harvested limestone out of the Mississippi gorge to build Fort Snelling. They harvested oaks for firewood.
Dakota people showed Mni Owe Sni (water-spring-cold) to Lt. Col. Henry Leavenworth, who had lost 20% of his troops the previous winter due to unsanitary practices at their camp on the Minnesota side of the confluence.
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Birchwood Cafe clears one major hurdle in its move to expand
BY ED FELIEN
He not busy being born is busy dying. Bob Dylan
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The Birchwood Café got a resounding shout of approval Tuesday, Sept. 11, at the Community Development Committee meeting of the Seward Neighborhood Group. One hundred forty-one people voted yes and only 28 people voted against Tracy Singleton’s plans to expand the Birchwood by up to 1,700 square feet. This will mean more storage, more refrigeration, an additional bathroom, an entryway vestibule, office space and a little more capacity in the dining room.
They will need to submit a land use application to the City of Minneapolis to rezone the Birchwood Café property from its current R1A zoning to C1 commercial zoning. Singleton will be asking the city to subdivide the neighboring residential property she owns at 2505 33rd Ave. S. and add that additional square footage to the Birchwood Café lot. She is proposing to remove the garage on that lot to make room for the café addition. Both houses at 2505 and 2501 33rd Ave. (which she owns) ...
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Jill Stein rocks the boat
BY ED FELIEN
It was looking like a sleepy political season. Gentle and predictable waves were washing against the small ship of state, and, then, Jill Stein jumped into the boat and the boat started rocking!
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Listener’s Guide to a Bob Dylan Concert
BY ED FELIEN
First thing you have to understand is, he’s not going to sing to you. He snarls.
That’s what you paid to hear—some 70-year-old guy dressed up in a band uniform with a fancy cowboy hat, snarling at you like a cross between James Dean and Artur Rimbaud. The thing is that guy also happens to be the best poet this country has heard since Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. His songs were the anthems of a protest movement that started with sit-ins in the South, moved to try to stop the war in Vietnam and helped to redefine acceptable relationships between men and women. And Dylan was there through all of it, cheering us on and denying he had anything to do with it.
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The hungry insurgent
BY CHARLEY UNDERWOOD
For a gardener or forager, this time of year is just crazy busy. It seems like every plant in the universe has conspired to come ripe at the same minute, demanding your attention. The tomatoes are ready all at once. The corn should have been picked two days ago. It’s time to turn the basil into pesto before the first frost kills it. Busy, busy, busy.
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What’s happening on 42nd Avenue?
BY ED FELIEN
This week at the Riverview Wine Bar:
On Wednesday, Sept.19, the Overtones Jazz Trio will be performing. They own the stage the first and third Wednesdays from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 20 (and every Thursday), Open Mic: If you want the world to hear your song, this is the place for you. Hosted by Jeff Bjorgo and Dan Rumsey.
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In Memory of Lauren Maker
BY ED FELIEN
Let us not weep for Lauren. She is beyond our tears. Let us grieve for our loss—the loss of a great fighter for a better world. She had an unshakeable faith that the world could be better than it is. But she didn’t just believe in it. She didn’t just hope for it. She went out and worked for it. And she challenged us to work for it, and all of us at some point, no doubt, fell short of her expectations.
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September
Riverside
Community Calendar
events
Special Lake Street Vigil
Wednesday, Sept. 19, 5 to 6 p.m.
Lake
Street/Marshall
Avenue Bridge
This vigil on the bridge marks 4,000 days after the beginning of the war on and occupation of Afghanistan. “Bring the troops home now!”
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Vote NO
A group of 150 clergy gathered at the entrance to the fairgrounds to speak out against the proposed constitutional amendment that would limit the freedom to marry for committed, same-sex couples in Minnesota.
Pastor Grant Stevenson represented Minnesotans United for All Families. The amendment “would tell a certain group of people that their relationship is not valued in our society and not valued by God.” Bishop Anne Svennungsen, who leads the Minneapolis Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest synod in the country, cited the resolution passed by five of six Minnesota ELCA synods opposing the “marriage amendment.” Rabbi Harold Kravitz, the Senior Conservative Rabbi of Adath Jeshurun Congregation, said, “This amendment would end that conversation permanently.” Pastor Adam Rao, an evangelical Christian minister at SafeHouse Church in Minneapolis, said, “To vote yes is to say that God is not to be found in gay and lesbian people—that love and commitment are not be found in their relationships.”
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