by johnso24 | Aug 7, 2017 | Carleton College
Nourse Little Theater Dan Brodkin Bertolt Brecht’s play The Caucasian Chalk Circle held its world premiere in Carleton’s Nourse Little Theater in May of 1948. The play is set in Soviet Georgia near the end of the Second World War and was based on a fourteenth-century...
by johnso24 | Aug 7, 2017 | St. Olaf College
Norwegian Royal Visit, 1939 Jeff M. Sauve The first-ever Norwegian royal visit to St. Olaf College occurred on May 7 and 8, 1939, Crown Prince Olav and Princess Märtha and their entourage were billeted overnight in the newly constructed Agnes Mellby Hall. The entire...
by johnso24 | Aug 7, 2017 | Downtown Northfield
Northfield YMCA Joy Riggs The Northfield Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) building has served as a community gathering spot since its construction more than a century ago. The YMCA building at 304 Division Street opened to the public on December 10, 1885. It...
by johnso24 | Aug 7, 2017 | Downtown Northfield
Northfield Post Office Joy Riggs The Northfield Post Office is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has anchored the southwest corner of Bridge Square for nearly eighty years. Its construction by the federal government generated controversy in the...
by johnso24 | Aug 7, 2017 | Downtown Northfield
The Northfield Depot Jeff M. Sauve Taft Greeted by Elephant, 1908 One of the more interesting events to take place at the Northfield Depot was the brief whistle-stop presidential campaign tour in 1908 of Republican William H. Taft, then secretary of war and Theodore...
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