Dirt road Washout between Melrose and Sauk Centre Minnesota
Dirt road Washout between Melrose and Sauk Centre Minnesota
Sinclair Lewis, Death, Dust
Chris Seidman teaches on life being more than the material
Sinclair Lewis Park shoreline project discussed
1368.mov - City Council meeting on July 6, 2011.
Palmer House Room 17, EVP Get Out as seen on Ghost Adventures
Palmer House Room 17, EVP Get Out as seen on Ghost Adventures:
The Palmer House Hotel is located in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. Several individuals who have worked in and visited this hotel claim that it is haunted based on the unexplained phenomenon that occurs there that seems to be directly related to the paranormal.
Originally constructed as the “Sauk Centre House” in the year of 1863, it was purchased in the year of 1867 by a man with the name of E.P Barnum and renamed to the “Minnesota House”. A year later, John Apfeld purchased the structure and changed the name to “The Apfeld House”. Here, you will continue learning about the Palmer House Hotel, and the hauntings that seem to occur within it.
In the year of 1900, in the month of June, the structure caught fire and was destroyed. At the time, many of the locals were not exactly thrilled with the establishment as it seemed to draw in several odd drifters and even increased crime in the area. According to the history of the original building, it is believed that the fire was started intentionally. When the owner of the building contacted the council of the city to attempt to acquire a loan to reconstruct the building, but the council did not see that it was appropriate to offer him the funding. There was another team of people who wanted it to be rebuilt and turned into a hotel. They offered an amount of $5,000 to the individual who would do so. This was the Herald from Sauk Centre.
A man by the name of R.L Palmer decided to take up the challenge and built the hotel that stands on the property today. The building was completed in the year of 1901. At this point, he named the hotel “The Palmer House”. The immense structure offered guests a considerable thirty eight exquisite rooms. It also included a bathroom that anyone could use. In addition to the beautiful structure, electricity was even put into the building for the comfort of the guests – at the time, this was not considered to be standard practice, but it was considered to be a luxury. Several locals and visitors alike swarmed to hotel simply because of its elegance.
By the year 1974, the ownership of the hotel had exchanged hands several times. It landed in the hands of two owners. One man was named Dick Schwartz and the other man was named Al Tingley. When the new owners took over, several people began to feel as if the hotel was haunted. There were many different types of unexplained phenomenon that seemed to be related to the paranormal occurring within the structure. Two of the hauntings seem to be directly related to suicides that had occurred in the hotel. One individual had hung himself, and the details of the other suicide were ambiguous. It is believed that the two spirits from these suicides still linger in the building.
There are many strange and unusual events that have occurred at the Palmer House Hotel. Several guests have heard knocks that seem to emerge from within the walls, as well as from the doors of their rooms. Upon investigation, it has been found that there is no logical explanation for the noises that are heard. This leads several individuals to believe that there are spirits trying to contact the living that visit and/or work in the building. There is also an unusual event that occurs in the hallways in the night hours. It has been said that children run and play in the structure – only there are no children there.
If you are seeking haunted places to go, The Palmer House Hotel is a great place to start! Simply go to Sauk Centre and look for Sinclair Lewis Ave. Once you are on this road, look for the numeric address of 500. This will be your haunted destination.
Ron Paul on Fascism
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Ron Paul on Faux news quoting Sinclair Lewis about when fascism comes to America.
Summit Avenue Tour - 004: 516 Summit
For a brief time in 1917, author Sinclair Lewis lived in this house. Rumor had it he was working on a book on James J. Hill, but that book was never completed.
Tom Brandau: Film Making Is Not For Sissies, Moorhead MN
Award-winning Moorhead, MN filmmaker Tom Brandau has been making independent films for nearly 30 years. the Baltimore native has a unique and soft touch in the way he crafts his films. Now he's passing that knowledge on to film students at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
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In 2008, Minnesota voters passed a landmark piece of legislation — the Minnesota Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment — which provided funding to public television stations serving audiences in Minnesota. Its mission is to help preserve and document the treasures of culture, history, and heritage that make Minnesota special, and to increase access to the natural and cultural resources we all share.
Shelli Fenske: Sculpture To Wear, Glyndon MN
Shelli Fenske compares the art of jewelry making to sculpting, as she forms metal and precious stones into magnificant, one of a kind pieces. This Glyndon, MN artist's jewelry reflects her love of nature and her passion for creativity.
About the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund
In 2008, Minnesota voters passed a landmark piece of legislation — the Minnesota Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment — which provided funding to public television stations serving audiences in Minnesota. Its mission is to help preserve and document the treasures of culture, history, and heritage that make Minnesota special, and to increase access to the natural and cultural resources we all share.
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Postcards: Historic Hotel, Rodeo Culture and Max Bats
Learn the history of The Palmer House Hotel in Sauk Centre, jump into rodeo culture with J.D. Struxness, and take a step into Max Bats in Brooten, MN where a passion for baseball grew into an empire.
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Living Up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s Audiobook
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In Living Up to the Ads Simone Weil Davis examines commodity cultures impact on popular notions of gender and identity during the 1920s. Arguing that the newly ascendant advertising industry introduced three new metaphors for personhoodthe ad man, the female consumer, and the often female advertising model or spokespersondavis traces the emergence of the pervasive gendering of American consumerism. Materials from advertising firmsincluding memos, manuals, meeting minutes, and newslettersare considered alongside the fiction of Sinclair Lewis, Nella Larsen, Bruce Barton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Zelda Fitzgerald. Davis engages such books as Babbitt, Quicksand, and Save Me the Waltz in original and imaginative ways, asking each to participate in her discussion of commodity culture, gender, and identity. To illuminate the subjective, day-to-day experiences of 1920s consumerism in the United States, Davis juxtaposes print ads and industry manuals with works of fiction. Capturing the maverick voices of some of the decades most influential advertisers and writers, Davis reveals the lines that were drawn between truths and lies, seduction and selling, white and black, and men and women. Daviss methodology challenges disciplinary borders by employing historical, sociological, and literary practices to discuss the enduring links between commodity culture, gender, and identity construction. Living Up to the Ads will appeal to students and scholars of advertising, American studies, womens studies, cultural studies, and early-twentieth-century American history.