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Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Project Team Thank You! Hysterical Scholars Contents Preface Art and Entertainment

Minnesota on the Tube Minnesota Public Radio Axel and His Dog Sculpture in the City A Pioneering Childhood Fairly Good Art Minnesota Movie Madness Mystery Science Theater 3000

Business Boom!

Grape Expectations Toys on a LARK Home on the Range Mall of America by the Numbers Flour Power: Milling in Minneapolis Dayton’s: Right on Target Watkins by the Numbers What a Ham! Flour Power, Part II Tonka Toys Familiar Old Friends In a Creative State The Small Town with a Big Reputation Greyhound by the Numbers If Cargill Were a Country

Good Sports

Vikings by the Numbers The Miracle on Ice Surfing Minnesota Six Things You Don’t Know About Kevin McHale Of Ice and Men School Daze: Sports Rivalries Birth of a Team The Timberwolves by the Numbers Nine Things You Didn’t Know About “Winnie”

History

Fact or Fiction? Minnesota Workers, Unite! Sara, We Hardly Knew You The Blizzard Is Coming Charge! Swedes Built This City The Great Hinckley Fire The Gang’s Last Stand

Hometowns

Minnesota on the Map Saint Paul: A Capital City A Tale of Twin Cities Teensy Tenney The Oldest Little Town in Minnesota One Heck of a Slapshot Name That Town! Wait! Where Am I? The Little City That Could Am I Blue? Spam Town USA

It’s Official

Just the Facts, Ma’am Fly That Flag Let’s Get Down to Business Grace: The State Photograph All Agape for Agates

Let the Good Times Roll

My Saint’s as Good as Yours! School Daze: Traditions Minnesota Curio, Part I The Missing Link What a Turkey! Party-Sota! Minnesota Curio, Part II Soaked Till Scrumptious!

Minnesota Haunts

Haunted Happenings: The Griggs Mansion Haunted Happenings: The Milford Mine Haunted Happenings: The Guthrie Theater

Mixed Bag

Odds Are It Happened in Minnesota Odds Are, Part II The Law and the Ludicrous Respect the Law

Native Sons and Daughters

Minnesota’s Most Famous Shy Person Born in Minnesota Minnesotans’ Thoughts On… Good Grief! Bob Dylan Sinclair Lewis “The Body” Speaks

On the Waterfront

The Lake Effect To Norway and Back Light My Way A Trip Down the Mighty Mississip’ Superior’s Shipwrecks Gone Fishin’

Public Service

The Mayo Clinic, Part I Meet Eugenie Anderson Sister Kenny Tackles Polio The Happy Warrior The Mayo Clinic, Part II Stassen the Stalwart

Puzzles

“Trivial” Minnesota Land of How Many Lakes? Marquee Minnesota Famous Minnesotans

Speaking Minnesotan

Minnesotisms: The Basics Minnesotisms: Weather and Geography Minnesotisms: Food

Answers