By Randy Nelson Becketwood began as the vision of the Episcopal Church Home Board, which determined in 1981 that there was a need for housing for those nearing retirement age, specifically persons 55 or older and that such housing should be a cooperative. A development committee of ten women chose an architectural firm […] Read more
By Steve Clemens I’m not sure which Nixon speech it was. It happened near the end of 1971 or early in 1972. Once again, the President called for an escalation of the war in Vietnam. That day I received a letter from the Selective Service Administration (my draft board) asking me, I assume, to […] Read more
By Carol Masters The Twin Cities are fortunate to have many expressions of public art in our buildings, neighborhoods, parks, and open spaces. Public art is not limited to galleries or museums; it is there for everyone, reflections of artists’ responses to our time and place and identity. Twice this fall, I encountered the […] Read more
By Deborah Padgett Previously published in THE COMMUNITY REPORTER and in Deborah Padgett’s compiled essays, LIVING, LOVING, LAUGHING, 2016 “You Can’t Go Home Again?” You can if you are Emily in OUR TOWN… I grew up a poor Baptist preacher’s kid living my teen years on a hill by a creek in the […] Read more
By Jan Ekern It’s always easier to keep your mouth shut and look the other way. But sometimes you just can’t hold back. I was on a city bus one morning in San Francisco several years ago. The bus was about half full. At one stop, a man in a wheelchair waited to embark. […] Read more
