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Friday December 19th 2025
Milton Worth – Ramsey Author with eyes on the sky found beauty on earth and, on Fort Road renamed Hiawatha Avenue
Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery
By SUE HUNTER WEIR
172nd in a Series
If you could choose just one word to have inscribed on your grave marker, what word would you choose? Milton Worth Ramsey didn”™t get to choose his own word; he didn”™t even have a marker until almost 80 years after he died. He died in 1906 and his descendants placed a new marker on his grave some time in the 1980s. The word that they chose to sum up his life was “author.”
And he most certainly was. According to his obituary, he was “for many years”¦identified with the literary life of the city”¦” He self-published four novels, and he is still recognized as having been an early science-fiction/speculative fiction writer. His first work, “Six Thousand Years Hence,” was published in 1891; followed by “The Austral Globe” (1892); “Future Dark Ages: a Story of a Trip Through a Dark Continent” (1900); and “Two Billions of Miles: or, The Story of a Trip Through the Solar System” (also 1900). Although one relative claimed that Jules Verne had plagiarized Ramsey”™s work, that”™s unlikely since Verne”™s most famous works were published in the 1860s.
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American Swedish Institute FREE Neighborhood Open House
Wednesday, January 8, 5:00pm to 8:00pm
2600 Park Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55407
612-871-4907 | ASImn.org
Be our guest at ASI”™s annual Neighborhood Open House. From 5-8 pm, we”™re offering free museum admission to thank our supporters, celebrate the holidays and introduce the Mansion to new friends. Whether you live nearby and wonder what happens here, in the suburbs and have been intending to visit, or are a long-time ASI member, please join us for this evening of hands-on holiday crafts, performances, bonfires and more. No registration needed!
Time Tested. Tradition Approved.
Currently through January 12
Step back in time over 90 years and explore the stories and decorations of holiday traditions from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Finland and our Celtic Junction community guests. With an ambiance drawing on holiday d̩cor, music, sound and lighting as well as furniture, art, design, toys and food commonly associated with each era and country, each room offers informative and immersive experiences. Marking ASIӪs 90th anniversary, visitors can discover bits of the past and visions of the future in the richly decorated rooms.
The journey begins with Sweden showcasing objects from the ASI collection appropriate to 1920s/30s, including the Turnblads”™ dining set. In 1929, founder Swan Turnblad donated the Mansion and many of the family”™s personal belongings to what was then the American Institute for Swedish Art, Literature and Science. … Read the rest “American Swedish Institute FREE Neighborhood Open House”
Transit – Schedule changes and a new idea for park and ride lots
By JOHN CHARLES WILSON
New schedule changes effective 7 December 2019 are in effect at Metro Transit, including some routes which serve the Phillips Community. Most of the changes are pretty minor, but you may want to pick up a new schedule, especially if you ride during rush hour.
Changes include:
Ӣ Minor schedule adjustments will be made to the Blue Line and Routes 5, 21, 22, and 53. The changes to Routes 21, 22, and 53 include reinstating trips which had been abolished during the bus driver shortage last year.
Ӣ Buses which normally run on 8th Street in downtown Minneapolis which were temporarily detoured to 6th Street are now back on 8th. Heading toward Phillips, these include Routes 5, 9, 19, 22, and 39.
With the winter season upon us, including the specter of fines and towing charges for parking in the wrong place during snow emergencies, I”™d like to make an open suggestion to Metro Transit. You see, their current rules don”™t allow overnight parking at most Park and Ride lots. I am thinking the Metropolitan Council could earn some public goodwill by relaxing that policy during snow emergencies. The idea would be for people who only have street parking at their homes to be able to park at a Park and Ride the night they have to be off their home street.… Read the rest “Transit – Schedule changes and a new idea for park and ride lots”
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