by johnso24 | Aug 4, 2017 | St. Olaf College
Mud Tug Jeff M. Sauve “Take one big hole, fill with water, add a mixture of Oles and Carls, throw in a rope, splash around, make one big mess—it’s the Mud-Tug!” Aptly named, the annual freshmen tradition for St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges started in...
by johnso24 | Aug 4, 2017 | St. Olaf College
Monument in the Woods Jeff M. Sauve Under a canopy of basswoods and sugar maples in Norway Valley, fifty yards east of the water tower, sits a monument dedicated to Reverend Ole O. Fugleskjel, a member of the St. Olaf College class of 1894. The nine-foot pillar of St....
by johnso24 | Aug 4, 2017 | Carleton College
Medical Arts Building Dan Brodkin Controversy flared up in the summer of 1992 when local doctor Stanley T. Kucera had a striking mural painted on the side of the Medical Arts Building. Kucera had moved to Northfield in 1939. Nine years later, he had built the Medical...
by johnso24 | Aug 4, 2017 | Carleton College
Lyman Lakes Ben Weiss Ninety-one years old, Stewsie was seen on a rain-soaked spring of 1974 working on and directing a landscape project near Carleton’s main campus. A “peripatetic dynamo of a little man,” D. Blake Stewart (affectionately known as Stewsie) left an...
by johnso24 | Aug 4, 2017 | Downtown Northfield
Lockwood Opera House Hayes Scriven Ephraim Lockwood moved to Northfield in 1856, shortly after its founding, and became a successful merchant. In 1872, he built a new store and Opera House. It was one of the early brick buildings on Division Street. It replaced a...
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