News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Monday December 29th 2025
Buster Keaton”'s “The Cameraman” with live soundtrack by “Dreamland Faces” share Memorial Day Highlights while fundraising and plans begin to replace over 60 Civil and Spanish-American War marble markers
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- Private John Barton was born in Scotland on March 2, 1811. During the Civil War he served in Company B of the 79th New York Infantry Highlanders. His marker, although cracked, is legible and is one of the few in the oldest part of the cemetery that will not be replaced this year.
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- Captain Charles Nudd was born in Wolfeborough, New Hampshire. He served with Company A, Third Minnesota Infantry for a brief time before being discharged for disability. Captain Nudd died on August 25, 1864, from congestion of the lungs. His illegible marker will be replaced this year.
By Sue Hunter Weir
While our friends on the East Coast are digging out after their second worst blizzard in recorded history, we”'re thinking spring. That”'s right. Even though it”'s February in Minnesota, we are getting ready for the Cemetery”'s reopening in April.
In addition to our usual winter-time activities, such as planning a Memorial Day observance, organizing some tours, and giving some talks to people who want to know more about Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery and its residents, we have a few other projects that we”'re working on.… Read the rest “Buster Keaton”'s “The Cameraman” with live soundtrack by “Dreamland Faces” share Memorial Day Highlights while fundraising and plans begin to replace over 60 Civil and Spanish-American War marble markers”
Pangea World Theater leads Lake Street Arts!
BY ALEJANDRA TOBAR ALATRIZ
Lake Street Arts! is an interdisciplinary leadership and community development, multi-year collaborative initiative focusing on place-making and place-keeping through the arts led by Pangea World Theater. Working with artists from East Africa, Latina/o/x and Indigenous Communities along East Lake Street, LSA! uses art as a tool to shape development plans towards a more equitable, sustainable model of growth.
Through a generous grant from ArtPlace, LSA! Phase 1 runs through Spring 2016 and Phase 2 begins Summer of 2016.  Goals include a Community Organizing Artist Apprenticeship Program and a Community Based Plan to develop East Lake Street as a Cultural Corridor.
LSA! centers People of Color, Immigrant, and Indigenous artists as community organizers that will contextualize Pangea”'s program through 2018.Â
“We will be principled in serving the revered and diverse Lake Street ecosystem. Our guiding principles will keep us accountable, emergent in design, and strategic. We seek to spark artistry and creativity while simultaneously working against the forces of gentrification. From the beginning we ask what will remain of our work after the Poetry comes down from the windows.”
Pangea World Theater is partnering with a broad network of artists and businesses to install multimedia interventions along Lake Street including:
“Poetry in the Windows”; a youth and young adult poetry exhibition in storefronts with Lake Street Council.… Read the rest “Pangea World Theater leads Lake Street Arts!”
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