Sinclair Lewis: The Conscience of His Generation, Sauk Center MN
The rolling plains of Sauk Center MN became the launching pad of the most popular American writer of the Jazz Age, Sinclair Lewis. In 1920, America was rocked by the publication of Main Street, a satirical novel ridiculing middle-class values and American smugness. He was called the conscience of his generation and his novels, which horrified the literary and political establishments, went on to become required reading in English classes for decades.
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Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt (2/34)
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters. His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H.L. Mencken wrote of him, If there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade ... it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds. He has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a Great Americans series postage stamp.
Born in the village of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Sinclair Lewis began reading books at a young age and kept a diary. He had two siblings, Fred (born 1875) and Claude (born 1878). His father, Edwin J. Lewis, was a physician and a stern disciplinarian who had difficulty relating to his sensitive, unathletic third son. Lewis's mother, Emma Kermott Lewis, died in 1891. The following year, Edwin Lewis married Isabel Warner, whose company young Lewis apparently enjoyed. Throughout his lonely boyhood, the ungainly Lewis tall, extremely thin, stricken with acne and somewhat pop-eyed had trouble gaining friends and pined after various local girls.
At the age of 13 he unsuccessfully ran away from home, wanting to become a drummer boy in the Spanish-American War. In 1914 Lewis married Grace Livingston Hegger (1887-1981), an editor at Vogue magazine. They had one son, Wells Lewis (1917–1944), named after British author H. G. Wells. Wells Lewis was killed in action while serving in the U.S. Army in World War II, specifically during the rescue of 'The Lost Battalion' in the Foret-De-Champ, near Germany, in France. Dean Acheson, the future Secretary of State, was a neighbor and family friend in Washington, and observed that Sinclair's literary success was not good for that marriage, or for either of the parties to it, or for Lewis's work and the family moved out of town.
Upon moving to Washington, D.C., Lewis devoted himself to writing. As early as 1916, he began taking notes for a realistic novel about small-town life. Work on that novel continued through mid-1920, when he completed Main Street, which was published on October 23, 1920. As his biographer Mark Schorer wrote, the phenomenal success of Main Street was the most sensational event in twentieth century American publishing history. Lewis's agent had the most optimistic projection of sales at 25,000 copies. In its first six months, Main Street sold 180,000 copies and within a few years, sales were estimated at two million.
According to biographer Richard Lingeman, Main Street made Lewis rich. In 1930, Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer from the United States to receive the award. After an alcoholic binge in 1937, Lewis checked into the Austen Riggs Center, a psychiatric hospital in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, for treatment. His doctors gave Lewis a blunt assessment that he needed to decide whether he was going to live without alcohol or die by it, one or the other. Lewis died in Rome on January 10, 1951, aged 65, from advanced alcoholism. His cremated remains were buried in Sauk Centre. A final novel, World So Wide (1951), was published posthumously.
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Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt (4/34)
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters. His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H.L. Mencken wrote of him, If there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade ... it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds. He has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a Great Americans series postage stamp.
Born in the village of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Sinclair Lewis began reading books at a young age and kept a diary. He had two siblings, Fred (born 1875) and Claude (born 1878). His father, Edwin J. Lewis, was a physician and a stern disciplinarian who had difficulty relating to his sensitive, unathletic third son. Lewis's mother, Emma Kermott Lewis, died in 1891. The following year, Edwin Lewis married Isabel Warner, whose company young Lewis apparently enjoyed. Throughout his lonely boyhood, the ungainly Lewis tall, extremely thin, stricken with acne and somewhat pop-eyed had trouble gaining friends and pined after various local girls.
At the age of 13 he unsuccessfully ran away from home, wanting to become a drummer boy in the Spanish-American War. In 1914 Lewis married Grace Livingston Hegger (1887-1981), an editor at Vogue magazine. They had one son, Wells Lewis (1917–1944), named after British author H. G. Wells. Wells Lewis was killed in action while serving in the U.S. Army in World War II, specifically during the rescue of 'The Lost Battalion' in the Foret-De-Champ, near Germany, in France. Dean Acheson, the future Secretary of State, was a neighbor and family friend in Washington, and observed that Sinclair's literary success was not good for that marriage, or for either of the parties to it, or for Lewis's work and the family moved out of town.
Upon moving to Washington, D.C., Lewis devoted himself to writing. As early as 1916, he began taking notes for a realistic novel about small-town life. Work on that novel continued through mid-1920, when he completed Main Street, which was published on October 23, 1920. As his biographer Mark Schorer wrote, the phenomenal success of Main Street was the most sensational event in twentieth century American publishing history. Lewis's agent had the most optimistic projection of sales at 25,000 copies. In its first six months, Main Street sold 180,000 copies and within a few years, sales were estimated at two million.
According to biographer Richard Lingeman, Main Street made Lewis rich. In 1930, Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer from the United States to receive the award. After an alcoholic binge in 1937, Lewis checked into the Austen Riggs Center, a psychiatric hospital in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, for treatment. His doctors gave Lewis a blunt assessment that he needed to decide whether he was going to live without alcohol or die by it, one or the other. Lewis died in Rome on January 10, 1951, aged 65, from advanced alcoholism. His cremated remains were buried in Sauk Centre. A final novel, World So Wide (1951), was published posthumously.
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Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt (1/34)
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters. His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H.L. Mencken wrote of him, If there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade ... it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds. He has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a Great Americans series postage stamp.
Born in the village of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Sinclair Lewis began reading books at a young age and kept a diary. He had two siblings, Fred (born 1875) and Claude (born 1878). His father, Edwin J. Lewis, was a physician and a stern disciplinarian who had difficulty relating to his sensitive, unathletic third son. Lewis's mother, Emma Kermott Lewis, died in 1891. The following year, Edwin Lewis married Isabel Warner, whose company young Lewis apparently enjoyed. Throughout his lonely boyhood, the ungainly Lewis tall, extremely thin, stricken with acne and somewhat pop-eyed had trouble gaining friends and pined after various local girls.
At the age of 13 he unsuccessfully ran away from home, wanting to become a drummer boy in the Spanish-American War. In 1914 Lewis married Grace Livingston Hegger (1887-1981), an editor at Vogue magazine. They had one son, Wells Lewis (1917–1944), named after British author H. G. Wells. Wells Lewis was killed in action while serving in the U.S. Army in World War II, specifically during the rescue of 'The Lost Battalion' in the Foret-De-Champ, near Germany, in France. Dean Acheson, the future Secretary of State, was a neighbor and family friend in Washington, and observed that Sinclair's literary success was not good for that marriage, or for either of the parties to it, or for Lewis's work and the family moved out of town.
Upon moving to Washington, D.C., Lewis devoted himself to writing. As early as 1916, he began taking notes for a realistic novel about small-town life. Work on that novel continued through mid-1920, when he completed Main Street, which was published on October 23, 1920. As his biographer Mark Schorer wrote, the phenomenal success of Main Street was the most sensational event in twentieth century American publishing history. Lewis's agent had the most optimistic projection of sales at 25,000 copies. In its first six months, Main Street sold 180,000 copies and within a few years, sales were estimated at two million.
According to biographer Richard Lingeman, Main Street made Lewis rich. In 1930, Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer from the United States to receive the award. After an alcoholic binge in 1937, Lewis checked into the Austen Riggs Center, a psychiatric hospital in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, for treatment. His doctors gave Lewis a blunt assessment that he needed to decide whether he was going to live without alcohol or die by it, one or the other. Lewis died in Rome on January 10, 1951, aged 65, from advanced alcoholism. His cremated remains were buried in Sauk Centre. A final novel, World So Wide (1951), was published posthumously.
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Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt (5/34)
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters. His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H.L. Mencken wrote of him, If there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade ... it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds. He has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a Great Americans series postage stamp.
Born in the village of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Sinclair Lewis began reading books at a young age and kept a diary. He had two siblings, Fred (born 1875) and Claude (born 1878). His father, Edwin J. Lewis, was a physician and a stern disciplinarian who had difficulty relating to his sensitive, unathletic third son. Lewis's mother, Emma Kermott Lewis, died in 1891. The following year, Edwin Lewis married Isabel Warner, whose company young Lewis apparently enjoyed. Throughout his lonely boyhood, the ungainly Lewis tall, extremely thin, stricken with acne and somewhat pop-eyed had trouble gaining friends and pined after various local girls.
At the age of 13 he unsuccessfully ran away from home, wanting to become a drummer boy in the Spanish-American War. In 1914 Lewis married Grace Livingston Hegger (1887-1981), an editor at Vogue magazine. They had one son, Wells Lewis (1917–1944), named after British author H. G. Wells. Wells Lewis was killed in action while serving in the U.S. Army in World War II, specifically during the rescue of 'The Lost Battalion' in the Foret-De-Champ, near Germany, in France. Dean Acheson, the future Secretary of State, was a neighbor and family friend in Washington, and observed that Sinclair's literary success was not good for that marriage, or for either of the parties to it, or for Lewis's work and the family moved out of town.
Upon moving to Washington, D.C., Lewis devoted himself to writing. As early as 1916, he began taking notes for a realistic novel about small-town life. Work on that novel continued through mid-1920, when he completed Main Street, which was published on October 23, 1920. As his biographer Mark Schorer wrote, the phenomenal success of Main Street was the most sensational event in twentieth century American publishing history. Lewis's agent had the most optimistic projection of sales at 25,000 copies. In its first six months, Main Street sold 180,000 copies and within a few years, sales were estimated at two million.
According to biographer Richard Lingeman, Main Street made Lewis rich. In 1930, Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer from the United States to receive the award. After an alcoholic binge in 1937, Lewis checked into the Austen Riggs Center, a psychiatric hospital in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, for treatment. His doctors gave Lewis a blunt assessment that he needed to decide whether he was going to live without alcohol or die by it, one or the other. Lewis died in Rome on January 10, 1951, aged 65, from advanced alcoholism. His cremated remains were buried in Sauk Centre. A final novel, World So Wide (1951), was published posthumously.
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Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt (3/34)
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters. His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H.L. Mencken wrote of him, If there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade ... it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds. He has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a Great Americans series postage stamp.
Born in the village of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Sinclair Lewis began reading books at a young age and kept a diary. He had two siblings, Fred (born 1875) and Claude (born 1878). His father, Edwin J. Lewis, was a physician and a stern disciplinarian who had difficulty relating to his sensitive, unathletic third son. Lewis's mother, Emma Kermott Lewis, died in 1891. The following year, Edwin Lewis married Isabel Warner, whose company young Lewis apparently enjoyed. Throughout his lonely boyhood, the ungainly Lewis tall, extremely thin, stricken with acne and somewhat pop-eyed had trouble gaining friends and pined after various local girls.
At the age of 13 he unsuccessfully ran away from home, wanting to become a drummer boy in the Spanish-American War. In 1914 Lewis married Grace Livingston Hegger (1887-1981), an editor at Vogue magazine. They had one son, Wells Lewis (1917–1944), named after British author H. G. Wells. Wells Lewis was killed in action while serving in the U.S. Army in World War II, specifically during the rescue of 'The Lost Battalion' in the Foret-De-Champ, near Germany, in France. Dean Acheson, the future Secretary of State, was a neighbor and family friend in Washington, and observed that Sinclair's literary success was not good for that marriage, or for either of the parties to it, or for Lewis's work and the family moved out of town.
Upon moving to Washington, D.C., Lewis devoted himself to writing. As early as 1916, he began taking notes for a realistic novel about small-town life. Work on that novel continued through mid-1920, when he completed Main Street, which was published on October 23, 1920. As his biographer Mark Schorer wrote, the phenomenal success of Main Street was the most sensational event in twentieth century American publishing history. Lewis's agent had the most optimistic projection of sales at 25,000 copies. In its first six months, Main Street sold 180,000 copies and within a few years, sales were estimated at two million.
According to biographer Richard Lingeman, Main Street made Lewis rich. In 1930, Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer from the United States to receive the award. After an alcoholic binge in 1937, Lewis checked into the Austen Riggs Center, a psychiatric hospital in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, for treatment. His doctors gave Lewis a blunt assessment that he needed to decide whether he was going to live without alcohol or die by it, one or the other. Lewis died in Rome on January 10, 1951, aged 65, from advanced alcoholism. His cremated remains were buried in Sauk Centre. A final novel, World So Wide (1951), was published posthumously.
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Jordan vs Norwood-Young America
2AA North Championship
Dearborn, Michigan
Dearborn is a city in the State of Michigan. It is located in Wayne County and is part of the Detroit metropolitan area. Dearborn is the eighth largest city in the State of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 98,153. First settled in the late 18th century by French farmers in a series of ribbon farms along the Rouge River and the Sauk Trail, the community grew with the establishment of the Detroit Arsenal on the Chicago Road linking Detroit and Chicago. It later grew into a manufacturing hub for the automotive industry.
The city was the home of Henry Ford and is the world headquarters of the Ford Motor Company. It has a campus of the University of Michigan as well as Henry Ford Community College. Dearborn has The Henry Ford, the United States largest indoor-outdoor museum complex and Metro Detroit's leading tourist attraction.
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Wells Lewis: Lost Heir to a Minnesota Son (2007)
A brief portrait of the life of Sinclair Lewis's first son. The film tells how Wells was raised among the social elite but eventually found his own place by joining the Greatest Generation on the battlefields of World War II.
Created for Minnesota State Historical Society's Greatest Generation Film Project 2007. WINNER OF THE AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD.
Linnea Mohn - Narrator
Jonathan Quijano - Writer, Director, Producer
John Knauss - Research Guru
Evan Beaumont - Editor, Music Supervisor
Ryan Dunlop - Sound Recordist, Sound Editor
Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt (6/34)
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters. His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H.L. Mencken wrote of him, If there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade ... it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds. He has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a Great Americans series postage stamp.
Born in the village of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Sinclair Lewis began reading books at a young age and kept a diary. He had two siblings, Fred (born 1875) and Claude (born 1878). His father, Edwin J. Lewis, was a physician and a stern disciplinarian who had difficulty relating to his sensitive, unathletic third son. Lewis's mother, Emma Kermott Lewis, died in 1891. The following year, Edwin Lewis married Isabel Warner, whose company young Lewis apparently enjoyed. Throughout his lonely boyhood, the ungainly Lewis tall, extremely thin, stricken with acne and somewhat pop-eyed had trouble gaining friends and pined after various local girls.
At the age of 13 he unsuccessfully ran away from home, wanting to become a drummer boy in the Spanish-American War. In 1914 Lewis married Grace Livingston Hegger (1887-1981), an editor at Vogue magazine. They had one son, Wells Lewis (1917–1944), named after British author H. G. Wells. Wells Lewis was killed in action while serving in the U.S. Army in World War II, specifically during the rescue of 'The Lost Battalion' in the Foret-De-Champ, near Germany, in France. Dean Acheson, the future Secretary of State, was a neighbor and family friend in Washington, and observed that Sinclair's literary success was not good for that marriage, or for either of the parties to it, or for Lewis's work and the family moved out of town.
Upon moving to Washington, D.C., Lewis devoted himself to writing. As early as 1916, he began taking notes for a realistic novel about small-town life. Work on that novel continued through mid-1920, when he completed Main Street, which was published on October 23, 1920. As his biographer Mark Schorer wrote, the phenomenal success of Main Street was the most sensational event in twentieth century American publishing history. Lewis's agent had the most optimistic projection of sales at 25,000 copies. In its first six months, Main Street sold 180,000 copies and within a few years, sales were estimated at two million.
According to biographer Richard Lingeman, Main Street made Lewis rich. In 1930, Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer from the United States to receive the award. After an alcoholic binge in 1937, Lewis checked into the Austen Riggs Center, a psychiatric hospital in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, for treatment. His doctors gave Lewis a blunt assessment that he needed to decide whether he was going to live without alcohol or die by it, one or the other. Lewis died in Rome on January 10, 1951, aged 65, from advanced alcoholism. His cremated remains were buried in Sauk Centre. A final novel, World So Wide (1951), was published posthumously.
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ex-ERIE's Portageville Trestle. Listen & watch the stress on this old 1875 bridge
In its final years, we stop to shoot some trains on the Portageville trestle in September 2015. The trains are reduced to 10 mph on this 1875 relic. When built, it was not intended for todays heavy locomotives. The clips are slow because of the train speeds, but you can really hear the old bridge creaking and moaning under the weight of the power. Then I put a fast forward and reverse clip in so you can see how the bridge reacts under the locomotives weight. Then we watch the 28n crosses the bridge, with the engineer standing on the front porch. (Who is running this thing) LOL. Then the conductor throws his trash out the window into the gorge. I'm sure the boss would be happy with his crew. This is the same crew we followed east, that did not call signals. When the passed a OCS with the trainmaster on board, the crew was questioned about not calling signals.
No wonder this bridge has been replaced with a new one, and as of todays date 2/02/2018, the original trestle is half demolished.
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Rochester Minnesota 1869 Panoramic Bird's Eye View Map 6653
Panoramic Maps, also known as Bird's Eye View, aerial view, or perspective maps. These were a popular form of art at the turn of the 20th century depicting a city's key points of interest.
Unlike traditional maps, Panoramic maps often highlighted the commercial aspects of a town, while also clearly showing many local residences.
I've had a lot fun looking up places I've been to on these maps -- and I've gotta say - It's amazing just how much things change -- and also how much things stay the same.
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Sinclair Lewis: Books, Main Street, Babbitt, Quotes, Biography, Political Views (2002)
Harry Sinclair Lewis (/ˈluːɪs/; February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. About the book:
In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters. His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H. L. Mencken wrote of him, [If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade ... it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds.
He has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a postage stamp in the Great Americans series.
Lewis's earliest published creative work—romantic poetry and short sketches—appeared in the Yale Courant and the Yale Literary Magazine, of which he became an editor. After graduation Lewis moved from job to job and from place to place in an effort to make ends meet, write fiction for publication and to chase away boredom. While working for newspapers and publishing houses (and for a time at the Carmel-by-the-Sea, California writers' colony), he developed a facility for turning out shallow, popular stories that were purchased by a variety of magazines. He also earned money by selling plots to Jack London, including one for the latter's unfinished novel The Assassination Bureau, Ltd.
Lewis's first published book was Hike and the Aeroplane, a Tom Swift-style potboiler that appeared in 1912 under the pseudonym Tom Graham.
Sinclair Lewis's first serious novel, Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man, appeared in 1914, followed by The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life (1915) and The Job (1917). That same year also saw the publication of another potboiler, The Innocents: A Story for Lovers, an expanded version of a serial story that had originally appeared in Woman's Home Companion. Free Air, another refurbished serial story, was published in 1919.
Upon moving to Washington, D.C., Lewis devoted himself to writing. As early as 1916, he began taking notes for a realistic novel about small-town life. Work on that novel continued through mid-1920, when he completed Main Street, which was published on October 23, 1920.[7] As his biographer Mark Schorer wrote, the phenomenal success of Main Street was the most sensational event in twentieth-century American publishing history.[8] Lewis's agent had the most optimistic projection of sales at 25,000 copies. In its first six months, Main Street sold 180,000 copies,[9] and within a few years, sales were estimated at two million.[10] According to biographer Richard Lingeman, Main Street made [Lewis] rich—earning him perhaps three million current [2005] dollars.
Lewis followed up this first great success with Babbitt (1922), a novel that satirized the American commercial culture and boosterism. The story was set in the fictional Midwestern town of Zenith, Winnemac, a setting to which Lewis would return in future novels, including Gideon Planish and Dodsworth.
Lewis continued his success in the 1920s with Arrowsmith (1925), a novel about the challenges faced by an idealistic doctor. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, which Lewis declined.[12] Adapted as a 1931 Hollywood film directed by John Ford and starring Ronald Colman, it was nominated for four Academy Awards.
Next Lewis published Elmer Gantry (1927), which depicted an evangelical minister as deeply hypocritical. The novel was denounced by many religious leaders and banned in some U.S. cities. Adapted for the screen more than a generation later, the novel was the basis of the 1960 movie starring Burt Lancaster, who earned a Best Actor Oscar for his performance.
Dwight Holton on the Role of the Attorney General
Stillwater: Chestnut Hill: Stop 1: Nichols House
Henry M. Nichols served as minister at the First Presbyterian church in Stillwater from 1853 to 1859. When other opportunities came his way in 1857, local businessmen offered Nichols a new home as an incentive to remain in Stillwater. He chose a plan using Gothic Revival architecture – a style popular between 1850 and 1870 and promoted in the United States by Andrew Jackson Downing. Nichols’ home shows the style’s distinctive features include the vergeboard trim and the steeply pitched gables. Henry Nichols left Stillwater within a few years, accepting a pastorate in Minneapolis.
Driver Shoots Self Following High-Speed Chase In Central Minnesota
Holter Racing Car Show
Welcome to another Holter Racing car show. MN Exotics and Supercars were on hand all the way from Minneapolis! Another great show and as always, a great time. Thanks to Fat Willy's for letting us come by!
Holter Racing car show at Fat Willy's in Rochester, MN.
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Celebration Sunday! 125th Anniversary of First Church (February 28, 2016)
125th Anniversary Celebration of the First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City at the Marriott Center for Dance on the University of Utah campus.
Thief River Water Tower, Thief River Prowlers.
Living in a flat area, water tower always sticks out and signal a town ahead. Some like this one serve as a landmark. When I was young I was always curious what the purpose of a water tower was.
N 48° 07.019 W 096° 11.825
14U E 708602 N 5333102
Quick Description: This Water Tower is on the corner of 1st Street West and Brazen Avenue on the west side of Thief River Falls, Minnesota.
Location: Minnesota, United States
Date Posted: 11/3/2011 2:54:49 PM
Waymark Code: WMD0VP
According to information I received from Thief River Falls High School:
In the late 1800's there was an amateur baseball team by the name of the 'Thieves.' So when the school started and a nickname was needed they didn't want the school children to be named the same. They took a less offensive or subservient name and the 'Prowler' name became attached to the school.
The first annual had a sketch of a man with a hood on creeping around a house with the title of the annual as the Prowler. A sketch in later years used a man with a mask over ½ of his face as the Prowler. It wasn't until 1920 that the school started to associate the mascot Prowler with a cat.
First graduating class was in 1904.
Major Airlines Ban Shipment of Wildlife Trophies
American Airlines, Delta Airlines and United Airlines have banned the shipment of lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies, Jason DeRusha, Kim Johnson, Kylie Bearse and Nina Moini report (3:44). WCCO Mid-Morning – August 4, 2015