‘Cover Stories’ Archives
Every Life is a Unique Story Worth Telling
239th in the series Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery See Events to find details for Alex Weston’s tour, “Grave Matters: The Story of a City as Told Through its Cemetery” on October 5th. By ALEX WESTON Alex Weston Fleeting glimpses of a vanished worldOver 22,000 people are buried in Minneapolis’ Pioneer & Soldiers Memorial Cemetery, but there are only 1,820 grave markers. The privileged are more likely to havetheir stories preserved. This works as a metaphor for history itself. History is not “what happened in the past,” but rather a web of stories we tell about the past. Like the grave markers at Pioneer & Soldiers Memorial Cemetery—which represent only around 8% of the individuals buried there—the evidence from which we construct these stories is fragmentary. We get only fleeting glimpses of a vanished world. Some stories get passed on, while most are forgotten. Generally, the privileged are more likely to have their [...]
Mosaic or Melting Pot?
Dominant Theologies Denied Marginalized People from the series Peace House Community Journal... By MARTI MALTBY Marti Maltby I recently read The Cross and Lynching Tree by James Cone. Cone was one of the first and most respected Black Liberation Theologians who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, arguing that the dominant Christian theology denied the experiences of minorities and had nothing to offer marginalized peoples. The Cross and the Lynching Tree was Cone’s final book before his death. He pointed out the similarities between Jesus’ crucifixion and the experiences of Black Americans who were lynched in this country. He also expressed shock that so few theologians, Black or White, could see the similarities. When he laid out the parallels, I was shocked, too, that I had never seen them, nor heard about them in my fifty plus years of attending church. Individual, cultures, and groups can have blind spotsThe experience was a little surreal, and it reminded me [...]
Monthly Update: Phillips Community Oral History Project. Oct. ’25
By PHILLIPS COMMUNITY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT PARTNERS courtesy Phillips Community Oral History Project Welcome back to the Phillips Community Oral History Project monthly update! This regular Column is an important part of the Project’s outreach to the Phillips Community. It is a space where we will share key progress milestones and keep the project accountable to the people of Phillips. After a long planning period and the official launch in September, the Phillips Community Oral History Project is now well underway. We have several updates, but the most exciting of these is that interviews have begun! As of mid-September, the Project has interviewed ten people. Of those, three were planned in advance, including Steve Sandberg, Rico Morales, and Becky Gazca. Seven additional interviews were conducted across three pop-up interview events at Franklin Library. Look out for more pop-up events around Phillips; Community members are encouraged to attend and tell their Phillips [...]
