StarTribune) and the legend goes ignored some arrogant East Coast correspondent in the 1880s the good people of St. Paul and linking the capital city of Minnesota to “another Siberia, unfit for human habitation in winter.”
In their defense, put a group of intrepid strengthening the city proud, eager to tout the population boom six years of 80000, together the first St. Paul Winter Carnival in 1886.
Now, 125 years later and confirmed that without ever printed slightly in fact, the tradition continues.
This one act long-term challenge.
“It was the idea that this is a very important place and no one would be to say that we do not count,” said Bob Olsen, a historian Carnival informal.
Began on Thursday, party carnival season will freeze for a period of 11 days.
There will be marches, and ice sculptures and a variety of outdoors – activities from the center of the city Rice Lake Phalen Park to the fairgrounds of the State – and yes, in enclosed spaces. In all, organizers are trying to promote 125 events.
“I think the Winter Carnival will help determine our role as people in the North,” he said. “We are ready to work with the environment and the cold and snow and ice, and we celebrate that.”
In their defense, put a group of intrepid strengthening the city proud, eager to tout the population boom six years of 80000, together the first St. Paul Winter Carnival in 1886.
Now, 125 years later and confirmed that without ever printed slightly in fact, the tradition continues.
This one act long-term challenge.
“It was the idea that this is a very important place and no one would be to say that we do not count,” said Bob Olsen, a historian Carnival informal.
Began on Thursday, party carnival season will freeze for a period of 11 days.
There will be marches, and ice sculptures and a variety of outdoors – activities from the center of the city Rice Lake Phalen Park to the fairgrounds of the State – and yes, in enclosed spaces. In all, organizers are trying to promote 125 events.
“I think the Winter Carnival will help determine our role as people in the North,” he said. “We are ready to work with the environment and the cold and snow and ice, and we celebrate that.”
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