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Lake Street The Great Street
By BOBBIE ERICHSEN Caption: Neighbors documenting their memories and experiences at a Lake Street Community Archive Pop-Up event at the Midtown Farmers’ Market on June 28. Invitation If you love East Lake Street — live near, work there, or feel connected —please, add your stories to a collection of memories. Incentive I’ve lived near the Lake Street Corridor most of my adult life; knowing it as a street, state highway, blocks of businesses, and a place of stories, contradictions, resilience, and creativity; significantly, centuries ago a walking trail of Indigenous Founders and animals between the Mississippi River and Bde Maka Ska, at the end of West Lake Street. Events five years, decades, and centuries ago inspired the creation of an additional way to hold its stories. That’s how the idea of East Lake Community Archive began. Community Ownership Community members dreamed and realized transformative projects before: Midtown Greenway from [...]
Franklin Library News August ’25
Compiled by CHRISTINA SMITH FRANKLIN LIBRARY HOURSMonday 9-5Tuesday 12-8Wednesday 12-8Thursday 12-8Friday 9-5Saturday 9-5Sunday 12-5 PROGRAMS FOR ALL AGES Makoce Collection Celebration Saturday, August 9th 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Come celebrate the expanded Makoce Indigenous Collection at Franklin Library! Housed in the heart of Minneapolis’ American Indian Cultural Corridor, the Makoce Collection contains a variety of materials of interest and importance to American Indian community members. This day-long celebration includes author events, Ojibwe ponies, music, art, and more! PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES Let’s Read Drop in Wednesdays, 4-7 pm Saturday/Sundays 1-5 pm Ends August 10th Free in-person reading support for K-5 students. Students and trained volunteer tutors meet weekly one-on-one to work on grade level reading skills. Connect & Play Thursdays, 3:30-4:30 pm For children of all ages and their [...]
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
By MARTI MALTBY In the 1960s, Bennie Benjamin, Horace Ott and Sol Marcus wrote “Don’t let me Be Misunderstood,” a song with lyrics that are intimate, timeless, and universal all at once. Marti Maltby Sung from the point of view of a flawed human, the song expressed the singer’s desire to be good while also asking: Baby, you understand me now?If sometimes you see that I'm madDon'tcha know that no one alive can always be an angel?When everything goes wrong, you see some bad I’ve always liked the song since I heard Elvis Costello’s version from the mid 1980s, although many other versions exist. I can relate to it so easily, knowing that I want to do what’s right, but that I often hurt the people I care about, or even total strangers, because of my weaknesses and limitations. In some ways, the song offers a gut check to the listener. While we can probably all relate to the singer, we should also try relating to the listener. When someone [...]
