‘Cover Stories’ Archives
Semilla Youth Leaders Add Beauty and Community to Phillips
By CAROL LEE CHASE and MARY ELLEN KALUZA The mural nearing completion. PHOTO: Carol Lee Chase Youth Leaders collaborating, working, and building friendships. PHOTO: Carol Lee Chase Over the summer a group of Youth Leaders ages 11-15, working with Semilla Center for Healing and the Arts, painted a mural on the doors and the steps of St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church sanctuary at 2742 15th Avenue South in the Phillips neighborhood. Lynda Grafito, an active Twin Cities community artist and printmaker from Colombia, guided this project which wrapped up at the end of August. We asked Lynda what excited her most about this project: I am very excited about how much the youth have been involved in this project. I feel that they have learned a lot, have become familiar with the materials, painting, creating and installing mosaics, and memorizing each step to follow. But the most important thing about this whole experience is that they are making new friends and having [...]
Summer Scenes
Illustrated by JAKE RYAN Lake Harriet Downtown Stone Arch Bridge Jake is a South Minneapolis born illustrator, copywriter, whiskey distilling DJ, who loves the outdoors and art in all its forms. He generally spends his time lurking around cafes, going to shows, and running.
Mystery Solved: Young Woman Found and Remembered
An Elusive Tombstone No. 225 in the series Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery By SUE HUNTER WEIR This started as a mystery story. During its research, the mystery was more or less solved. The solution seemed like it would be complicated, but it turned out to be quite simple. Hazel Anderson’s granite marker found in a Powderhorn Park Neighborhood backyardthat was discovered decades later while clearing overgrown greenery.The marker reads: Our Daughter, Hazel K. L. Anderson and includes her birthdate, August 5, 1894, and her death date, March 22, 1915. PHOTO: Courtesy Sue Hunter Weir HAZEL ANDERSON AUGUST 5, 1894 - MARCH 22, 1915The story began when Powderhorn Park Neighborhood residents, Heidi and Renae, found a headstone in their backyard. They’d moved into their house about three years before. Neighbors told them that their house had been unoccupied for about ten years before they moved in. When they were weeding and clearing out scrub trees in the [...]
