Dog, Lion Were Fast Friends in ’30s Zoo
By Grace Webb While it may seem impossible for a little dog and a big cat to be best [...]
North Mankato Fun Day
By Hilda Parks This year North Mankato will celebrate its fifty-fourth Fun Days, or its fifty-fifth depending on whose [...]
Madison Lake, Minnesota
Excerpt from The Heritage of Blue Earth County by Julie Schrader, Topic 114, available in the Research & Genealogy [...]
The Ghost of Yaeger School House?
By Hilda Parks Teams of horses disappearing from their stalls, and reappearing the next day. Smoke coming from a [...]
Garden City Almost County Seat
By Mike Lagerquist For one week a year, when the Blue Earth County Fair is held there, the sleepy [...]
Tourtellotte Pool
By Gideon Afolayan You might have driven by Tourtellotte Park and thought about where the name comes from, or [...]
A Micro Batch of Mankato’s Brewing History
By Jessica Helmers Beer is an everyman’s drink. It came from a region of humble pursuits, like so many [...]
Graduations in Mankato High School’s history
by Grace Webb While students have been graduating from Mankato high schools since the 1870s, the commencement ceremony and [...]
Dr. Helen Hughes Hielscher
By Win Grundmeier (2011) Truly a light of the first magnitude in southern Minnesota. She was a medical [...]
Tinkcomville was once a well-known place in Mankato
by Hilda Parks The name James Ray Tinkcom or Tinkcomville may not be familiar, but James Avenue, which now [...]