News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Tuesday December 16th 2025
Hannah Burbank Stanchfield Blaisdell: A $65.00 “Touchstone” to The Revolution
Alice Stanchfield Bowman worried about what was going to happen to her mother”'s gravesite and headstone in Layman”'s Cemetery.
by Sue Hunter Weir
In 1925 Alice Stanchfield Bowman worried about what was going to happen to her mother”'s gravesite and headstone in Layman”'s Cemetery. Alice was 79 years old and almost blind but she could read well enough to follow the newspaper stories about the bodies that were being removed from the cemetery, sometimes at the rate of several hundred a day. She wrote to Marion Satterlee, first president of the Minneapolis Cemetery Protective Association, to let him know that her brother, his wife, and several of their children were buried in the Stanchfield family plot. In addition she had many friends buried there, but it was her mother, Hannah Burbank Stanchfield Blaisdell, that she was most concerned about.
Hannah Burbank was born in Maine on March 3, 1806. She married Ezra Stanchfield, Alice”'s father, in 1827. They had at least ten children. Alice, born in 1846, was one of the youngest. Her father died in 1851 when Alice was five. Hannah Stanchfield married again; her second husband was Timothy Blaisdell. Sometime after he died, Hannah moved to Minneapolis. When the 1880 census was taken, Hannah, aged 75, was living in Minneapolis and working in a boarding house run by Alice and one of Alice”'s brothers.… Read the rest “Hannah Burbank Stanchfield Blaisdell: A $65.00 “Touchstone” to The Revolution”
Brrr! Winter is coming-Stay fit at Running Wolf
By Connie Norman
As the manager of Running Wolf Fitness Center I have already heard (and participated in) moaning and groaning about the coming winter and there”'s one question that comes up again and again: How am I going to stay fit when the weather gets cold?
The key to staying fit in the winter is creating your own personal exercise-friendly environment with what you have available.
Creating an exercise-friendly winter means planning ahead and dealing with the biggest winter exercise obstacles or, what we will call The Big Three:
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Learn Computer Skills at New, Enhanced Waite House Location: 2323 11th & 13th Avenues
By Wes Durham, Waite House AmeriCorps Staff
Waite House gained a brand new computer center this past April, and now they”'re really putting it to work! The Urban Opportunities program at Waite House offers 3 different levels of computer classes oriented towards workplace skills. Computer Basics is for people brand new to computers, and in it they learn to use the mouse, type, use email, and navigate the internet. In Computers for the Workplace students learn about Microsoft Word and Excel, two programs essential for many jobs these days. And in a special new class students can earn the Northstar Basic Computer Skills Certificate and prove to employers they”'re ready to use their computer skills to get the job done. In addition to classes, Waite House also offers one on one computer training and employment assistance. If you are interested in computer education or in employment assistance call 612-721-1681 and ask for Wes or John, email durhamw@puc-mn.org, or enquire in person. All classes are free of charge. “
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