#Powderhorn Park - Minneapolis

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Ophelia of Powderhorn

I walked out to the park, I believed

For a full three minutes

That I could walk out on the water

Of the lake

I stood at the edge, I wavered

Imagining the high of it, the bend under

My feet, I stood

And stared out at the geese

At the island, at the lemon yellow

Trees

I could walk out to the island and

Leave the shores of my body behind

Ophelia of Powderhorn. 

I cradled my head in my hands

like one would

Hold a broken egg

I believe, I believe

That I could step out there

I wish that I could see

The shape of the world moving

Around my fingers

I wish I could be plucked like

A string,

a part of everything

Unbroken in the motion

Of the gray season, blending

With every living thing moving

Through the dying grasses.

But I moved on. Belief must be

More fragile than what could

be termed hope

The inertia of my body on the

Paths of the park

Carried me away.

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Minneapolis skyline as seen from Powderhorn Park.

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Good People Doing Good Things -- In Linda Taylor's Neighborhood

Good People Doing Good Things — In Linda Taylor’s Neighborhood

Today I have just one good people story, but the story has lots ‘n lots of good people and is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face.  And at the end, I have an idea that I need your help with! It’s amazing what people can do when they work together to help someone.  Linda Taylor, at 70 years of age, was given two months’ notice from her landlord to vacate the Minneapolis house she has lived…

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Powderhorn Park is a residential neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, consisting mostly of single-family homes, duplexes and some low-rise apartment buildings. The community's eponymous park system and lake — shown at the center of this Overview — hosts local sporting events, community education classes, and ice skating in the winter.

44.942944°, -93.256916°

Source imagery: Nearmap

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Fireworks for the 4th

Last week the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board announced that there would not be any fireworks in Minneapolis Parks this year. Instead, the park board will be hosting a laser show at Boom Island Park on July 3.

While this is not the first 4th of July without fireworks in the parks, Minneapolis has a long tradition of holiday fireworks. In 1870, a free fireworks display at Bridge Square was the culmination of July 4th festivities. The newspaper even printed a program listing the order and types of the 31 fireworks to be displayed. Among them, "sky rockets," "vertical wheels," "Saturn and his satelites," and a "tree of liberty."

By the 1930s, American Legion posts sponsored 4th of July celebrations and fireworks displays across the city. The 1937 celebration at Powderhorn Park (pictured here) was one of the largest events.

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[astriiformes]

hi! i’m moving to minnesota this week, and am wondering if there are any events or attractions or places this summer that you would recommend attending/visiting!

(further context: i will not be living in the twin cities but i do have a car and can drive there in several hours. i especially like nerdy or artsy events, but would keep an open mind for more outdoorsy stuff!)

Oh, absolutely!

I feel like with June on the horizon I would be remiss not to mention the various Prides that happen around the state. There's the big/main Twin Cities one obviously (which I think is still fun, even if it's gotten fairly corporate), but another group has started putting together what they call Minneapolis People's Pride in Powderhorn Park as a more grassroots alternative, which I have not made it to yet but have heard good things about. Personally, I'm going to try to make it to both this year. I've also been to lovely Prides in some smaller Minnesota cities -- my favorite of which was the one in Mankato.

The Minnehaha Falls Art Fair is a wonderful zero-waste outdoor arts and crafts festival with tons of local artists that happens in Minnehaha Regional Park in July. Make sure to go see the beautiful waterfall in the park, too, it's really stunning (and kind of wild that it's just in the middle of a major US city!)

Since you mentioned nerdy events -- my favorite convention in the whole country, CONvergence, is one of the local Twin Cities cons, and will be happening from July 6-9th this year. It's a smaller, fan-run con that still has a very old-school fandom feel (there's a consuite run by volunteers, themed party rooms, and filk circles every night!) but that has consisstently aslo been great about things like disability and accessibility, fantastic COVID precautions, and being particularly queer-friendly. It may not be exactly the sort of thing you're looking at for this summer, but I love the event so much and do definitely recommend checking it out one of these years!

The Twin Cities has three major science museums - the Bell, the Bakken, and the Science Museum of Minnesota -- also of which I hear are well-worth visiting (I haven't been to them all myself). If finances are a concern, they also generally have reduced ticket prices and sometimes even membership options for lower income guests.

The Midwest Independent Bookseller's Association has an awesome listing of many of the great indie bookstores in the area here -- my favorites include Moon Palace Books, Magers & Quinn, Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore, The Book House, and Midway Used & Rare Books, but there are so many other great ones. Their map includes bookstores all over Minnesota, too, in case there's one closer to you worth checking out!

Last but not least. Go to Ax-Man Surplus. I don't know how else to explain Ax-Man except to say it's like if a surplus store met the Mystery Shack. You don't even have to go in intending to buy something for it to be a very entertaining afternoon. Ax-Man is an experience in and of itself. You will not be disappointed.

(If you want slightly more context for the last one, I know there's an Atlas Obscura page on it, but I feel like "Surplus store that has its own Atlas Obscura page" says a lot on its own)

#land of eldritch lakes

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Minneapolis neighborhood: Powderhorn Park

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Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis

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Recently published on The Gradient: Interventionist Typography: Erik Brandt on Five Years of Ficciones Typografika From 2013 to 2018, a humble alley in Minneapolis’s Powderhorn Park neighborhood was transformed into an unlikely showcase of global design innovation. On a 72 x 36-inch garage-side panel, Erik Brandt hosted typographic experiments by the likes of Eike König, Sarah Boris, Bráulio Amado, and Walker designers Jasio Stefanski and Aryn Beitz—1,641 in total. In a Walker Reader exclusive, we share a conversation with Brandt from Ficciones Typografika: 1642, a new monograph chronicling the project. Above: Spread from Ficciones Typografika: 1642, featuring contributions from Audrey Quaranta and João Doria (2015)

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5/13/18 Edith Carlson "Springtime in Full Bloom" Sunshine lights up two flowering trees between two houses on 10th Avenue.

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Late summer in Powderhorn

August is lush and sweltering

No shelter from the

Searing yellow sun,

The hum of bees, white snakeweed

Dingy in the corners of the park

And after the late coming of the dark,

My heart turns inside out

Yet again,

After all this time.

I bite the bullets one after the other

And spit out my words

I struggle to keep still--

Summer is the time of

Movement, and I’ve been

Falling through the void

Of its green shadows

Drinking my fill of

Its bird-chatter-quick heartbeat

Pounding the pavement

Lost in hours of that song:

Keep living, keep walking

Keep moving on.

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The annual MayDay Parade in South Minneapolis with the Southside Battletrain. The parade went down Bloomington Ave and then turned onto 34th to Powderhorn Park.

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Powderhorn Park south minneapolis

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[dailyoverview]

Powderhorn Park is a residential neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, consisting mostly of single-family homes, duplexes and some low-rise apartment buildings. The community's eponymous park system and lake — shown at the center of this Overview — hosts local sporting events, community education classes, and ice skating in the winter.

See more here: https://bit.ly/3AsqLlV

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Source imagery: Nearmap

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Statue of Liberty to be Erected in Powderhorn Park

In March 1961 the Minneapolis Park Board accepted an offer from St. Louis Park resident Iner Johnson to put a 10-foot replica of the Statue of Liberty on the island in Powderhorn Lake. The statue was one of at least 50 copper casts that were made in 1949 and distributed through the Boy Scouts of America in the early 1950s. Johnson, who first saw the original Statue of Liberty on arrival to New York as a Swedish immigrant in 1923, acquired the replica in Chicago after nearly a decade of searching for a Statue of Liberty of his own which he hoped to gift to the city of Minneapolis. But Johnson’s dreams of sharing this “emblem of patriotism” with the city were squashed.

A decade later, placement of the replica in Powderhorn Park was still up for debate. In February 1972, neighbors and members of the Powderhorn Activities Council finally voted 21 to 20 opposing plans to erect the replica in the park. Many considered it a potential eyesore, a magnet for vandals, and a symbol of oppression for several minority groups.

NEW! Hennepin County Library Digital Collection: Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Collection | This 1961 proposal to locate a replica of the Statue of Liberty on the island in Powderhorn Lake is among the many maps and plans in the newly digitized Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Collection in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections. 

For more on the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Records in Special Collections, check out this in-process finding aid.

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