‘Miscellany’ Archives
LIFE OF JOHN
Today NPR plays John”'s songs ”” the ones guaranteed to get you, “In My Life,” “Beautiful Boy,” “Starting Over” ”” and I say to Krista, “This grief will be with us as long as we live.” John was finally such a sane person not because he was free of neuroses and contradictions ”” he wasn”'t ”” but because he so clearly wanted to be sane, adult, decent. He could have coasted the rest of his days on the Beatles godhead, but chose not to, put himself in J. Edgar”'s sights for the sake of peace. He leveled with us how it felt to be a working class hero. He got right with the goddess on the subject of women, and with tender attention and humility gave years to fathering little son Sean. “We have grown,” he sang to Yoko. The last morning of his life he told an interviewer he hoped to be around for a long time. Then from the crowd the cold gun nosed [...]
The Alley Newspaper Bound for the Future
Once anything is printed in The Alley Newspaper it becomes an available part of recorded history. All of The Alley Newspaper”'s issues since it began in 1976 through 2007 have been reprinted on long-lasting book paper and bound into thirteen volumes. There is a set available at the Hennepin County at Franklin Community Library on Franklin Avenue & 13th St. and the Central Library on Nicollet Mall. The Hennepin Library will be reprinting and binding all of the issues from 2008 through the December 2012 issue early next year. The Minnesota Historical Society also has all issues of The Alley on microfilm. Put it in The Alley and it will endure.
Sámi Day at Ingebretsen”'s
By Rosalie Sundin One of the original indigenous cultures of the Arctic are the Sámi people (formerly referred to as Laplanders.)  Their original “Sapmi” homeland extended westward from the Kola peninsula of Russia, across Finland, to the Atlantic coast of Norway, and from edge of the polar seas southward through central Norway and Sweden.  Over the centuries, as Scandinavian settlers and hunters moved further and further north, the Sámi people lost much of their southern lands. Today Sapmi extends across northern Norway, Finland, northernmost Sweden and the Russian Kola peninsula. Every year Ingebretsen”'s “Sámi Day” celebration is co-hosted by Twin Cities members of the “Sámi Siida of North America,” an association of descendants of Sámi immigrants from throughout the U.S. and Canada. We welcome everyone to join us, for an opportunity to learn about and share in our Sámi culture, traditions and arts -- and [...]
