News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Sunday January 11th 2026
Searching ”“ A Serial Novelle Chapter 28: POINT THEM TOWARDS THE FIRE
By Patrick Cabello Hansel
Sit down, dear. You must be so cold. Let me take your wrap, and have a nice cup of tea.”
So spoke the old woman into whose house Luz had stumbled. She didn”'t realize how cold she was until she found herself in the warmth of this woman”'s house, a house full of candles and music and smells of baking. For the first time in a long time, Luz felt safe.
“Take off your boots, hon,” the woman said, even before Luz realized that her feet were freezing. “Just point them toward the fire, and they”'ll get warm soon enough.”
Luz gratefully tugged off her boots, and as she did, she felt something loosening its grip on her chest. A longing, a gratefulness poured out of her.
“Thank you so much”, she said to the old woman. “I didn”'t know where to go, and then I heard your voice calling me.” Luz didn”'t say that the old woman”'s voice sounded like something she”'d been listening for her whole life. She sat in silence for a moment, sipping her tea and wiggling her toes.
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Ironic Tragedy! Mourners and Mortician infected by small pox diseased corpse
Asa Clark Brown”'s Gravesite and Tombstone Honored A new tombstone and flower wreath were provided and set in place by the Daughters of the War of 1812 on the 142nd Memorial Day Celebration at Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery to honor Asa Clark Brown and mark his grave site, May 330th 2011. The helmet, rifle, and empty boots were ceremoniously put in place by American Legion Post #1, Minneapolis.
Almost all cemetery stories are sad, but some are far sadder than others.
On May 30th, 2011 at the 142st Memorial Day Celebration Memorial Day at Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery, Lu Jacobson came to pay her respects to several members of her family. She came with flowers, most likely the first flowers that her relatives had received in nearly a hundred years. Six members of her family died in 1904, all of them within six weeks of each other.
The story began on April 1, 1904 when the Minneapolis Tribune ran the following short story:
“Hearing strange and unusual noises in the rooms below at 1:30 this morning, Mrs. Joseph H. Lockwood, of 2854 Twenty-seventh avenue south, ran from her chamber to the first floor, only to find her husband in the last throes of death.… Read the rest “Ironic Tragedy! Mourners and Mortician infected by small pox diseased corpse”
First Annual Bridging Festival crosses Phillips August 13th
By Dallas Johnson
The Bridging Minneapolis Project partnering with In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre presents The Bridging Festival: hands-on, interactive event east to west on 24th Street- Hiawatha to 35W– site to site co-creating, learning about engagement throughout Phillips Neighborhood.
- New to the neighborhood?
- Want a feel for what”'s going on?
- Want to meet people doing fun, progressive work?
- Miss the sense of community from the past?
- Kid (or kid-at-heart) liking paint and glue on your hands?
- Grown cynical?
- Want to be part of a spiritual ceremony of healing and connection?
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