Explore The Spooky Side Of History At St. Paul's Wabasha Caves
For those looking for a realistic scare, the Wabasha Street Caves offer historic tours that come complete with cold tunnels and ghost stories, Mike Augustyniak and Natalie Nyhus report.
WCCO Saturday Morning – Oct. 11, 2014
Haunted Places in Minnesota 2
Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Duluth, and more! Check out our second list of the most haunted places in Minnesota! We took a lot of your suggestions on this one... from creepy schools to scary haunted manor houses... enjoy.
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Greyhound Bus Museum by McGhiever ( is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (
Greyhound Bus Museum vehicles” by McGhiever ( is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (
“2009-0522-Concordia-OldMain” by Bobak Ha’Eri ( is licensed under CC BY 3.0 (
“Brown Hall Concordia College Moorhead MN” by Bjorn G. Altenburg ( is licensed under CC0 1.0 (
“Soul Reach” by Collapse The Light ( is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (
“Flag Sunset” by Collapse The Light ( is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (
“Calumet Hotel 2012” by McGhiever ( is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (
“Calumet Hotel” by Jet Lowe ( is in the public domain (
“Anderson House Wabasha 1” by AlexiusHoratius ( is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (
“Anderson House Wabasha 2” by AlexiusHoratius ( is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (
“Fitzgerald Theater” by Ross Griff ( is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (
“Fitzgerald Theater” by Matt ( is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 (
“Warden’s House Museum” by McGhiever ( is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (
“Warden’s House Museum rear” by McGhiever ( is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (
“glensheen” by Brendan Riley ( is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 (
“Glensheen Mansion” by Jon & Robin ( is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (
“Saint Mary’s Hall, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota (3)” by Susan WD ( is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 (
“Saint Mary's University Main Campus 2” by Randy Stern ( is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (
“Clock Tower and the Bluffs” by Susan WD ( is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 (
Schmidt Artist Lofts by McGhiever ( is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (
Historic Schmidt Brewery by Mac H (media601) ( is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 (
Glensheen Mansion Photo Meet, Duluth 10/7/17 #glensheen #fall #window #lamp by Sharon Mollerus ( is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (
WCCO Viewers' Choice For Best Minnesota Movie
This film put the town of Wabasha on the map, Frank Vascellaro and Chris Shaffer report (4:10). WCCO 4 News At 10 – September 7, 2017
Civil War Homecoming
The year 1865 saw inauguration, abolition, armistice, assassination, grief, celebration, and reunion. The brand new state of Minnesota mourned and commemorated along with the rest of the nation.
A live stage show featuring Dan Chouinard, Beth Gilleland, Dane Stauffer, Kevin Kling, Maria Jette, T. Mychael Rambo, Prudence Johnson, members of the Roe Family Singers, and the Brass Messengers as well as Eric Jacobson, Annette Atkins, Gwen Westerman, Mark Ritchie, Dean Urdahl, Patricia Bauer, and David Geister.
ACT I
0:00:00 Opening sequence: Randal Dietrich & Stephen Smith
0:01:20 Music: The Vacant Chair
0:04:00 Welcome: Dan Chouinard
0:05:30 Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural (part 1 of 2): Dean Urdahl
0:07:30 Music: Weeping Sad & Lonely
0:10:00 Civil War literature: Dan Chouinard
0:10:30 Bowlers: Beth Gilleland & Dane Stauffer
0:13:25 Christie Brothers: Mark Ritchie & Kevin Kling
0:16:00 1861-1864: Eric Jacobson
0:23:00 Gettysburg: Kevin Kling
0:27:30 Music: Brother Green
0:29:30 Civil War Music: Dan Chouinard
0:31:30 Music: Battle Cry of Freedom
0:32:20 1865: Dan Chouinard
0:32:50 Music: Home for Me
0:35:50 13th Amendment: Dan Chouinard
0:38:40 Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural (part 2 of 2): Dean Urdahl
0:40:20 Frederick Douglass: T. Mychael Rambo
0:42:00 Music: True Lover’s Fairwell
0:42:45 Bowlers: Beth Gilleland & Dane Stauffer
0:46:20 Lee’s Surrender/Fall of Richmond: Pat Bauer
0:47:15 Music: Dixie
0:48:00 Lincoln’s assassination: Dan Chouinard
0:51:50 LeDuc: Pat Bauer & David Geister
0:53:17 Funeral Train: Dan Chouinard
0:56:00 Grand Review: Dan Chouinard
0:56:50 Christie Brothers: Mark Ritchie & Kevin Kling
0:58:50 Music: Down by the Riverside
1:00:55 Intermission: Stephen Smith, Shari Lamke, Randal Dietrich
ACT II
1:02:00 Shall We Gather At the River
1:03:40 Homecomings: Mark Ritchie & Kevin Kling & Dan Chouinard
1:07:05 Music: Home Sweet Home
1:08:30 Music: Maiden in the Garden
1:10:45 Civil War Veterans: Dan Chouinard
1:12:30 Bowlers: Beth Gilleland & Dane Stauffer
1:14:45 MN & the Civil War: Annette Atkins
1:19:30 Blacks in MN: Dan Chouinard & T. Mychael Rambo
1:22:00 Music: I’ll Overcome Someday
1:25:00 Native People: Gwen Westerman
1:31:45 War’s Legacy: Eric Jacobson
1:38:50 Litany of stories
1:44:50 Angel Band
1:47:20 Civil War in our Midst
1:52:20 Music: Jacob’s Ladder
1:55:40 Closing Comments & Credits
Lake City MN view from Amtrak
View of Lake City, MN from Amtrak's Empire Builder. One end to another in 5 minutes! View are on the South/West side of the train.
Grumpier Old Men
The more things change, the more they stay the same in Wabasha, Minnesota. The uncatchable fish named Catfish Hunter grows fatter. The wisecracks, zingers and put downs pile up like freshly raked leaves. And GRUMPY OLD MEN become grumpier in the sequel that's pure delight, a wonderfully warmhearted comedy (David Sheehan, CBS-TV). Grabbing fishing rods and picking up where they left off, JACK LEMMON and WALTER MATTHAU reel in another comedy winner as GRUMPIER OLD MEN. ANN-MARGRET, DARYL HANNAH, KEVIN POLLACK and BURGESS MEREDITH also return to the Land of 10,000 Lakes to reprise their roles. And SOPHIA LOREN is the newcomer whose plan to turn the town's beloved bait shop into a ristorante sends the old boys into a tizzy. Be advised: a tizzy is very contagious. Get ready to laugh. And stay tuned for the outtakes, including man-sized manicotti! Better, funnier and even grumpier than the original. - Joel Siegel, GOOD MORNING AMERICA/ABC-TV (c) 1995 Warner Bros. All Rights Reserved MPAA Rating: PG-13 (c) 1995 Warner Bros. All Rights Reserved
German Americans | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:02:44 1 History
00:03:29 1.1 Colonial era
00:04:49 1.1.1 Palatines
00:06:49 1.1.2 Louisiana
00:08:47 1.1.3 Southeast
00:10:49 1.1.4 New England
00:11:23 1.1.5 Pennsylvania
00:13:54 1.2 American Revolution
00:14:53 1.3 19th century
00:16:09 1.3.1 Jews
00:17:09 1.3.2 Northeastern cities
00:17:25 1.3.3 Cities of the Midwest
00:19:08 1.3.4 Deep South
00:19:22 1.3.5 Texas
00:21:29 1.3.6 Germans from Russia
00:24:18 1.3.7 Civil War
00:25:53 1.3.8 Farmers
00:28:05 1.3.9 Politics
00:30:20 1.4 World Wars
00:30:28 1.4.1 Intellectuals
00:31:41 1.4.2 World War I anti-German sentiment
00:33:56 1.4.3 World War II
00:35:47 1.5 Contemporary period
00:37:35 2 Demographics
00:38:17 2.1 German-American communities
00:38:47 2.1.1 Communities with highest percentages of people of German ancestry
00:40:45 2.1.2 Large communities with high percentages of people of German ancestry
00:41:38 2.1.3 Communities with the most residents born in Germany
00:45:22 3 Counties by percentages of Germans
00:54:17 4 Culture
00:55:39 4.1 Music
00:58:24 4.2 Turners
00:59:31 4.3 Media
01:02:03 4.4 Athletics
01:02:55 4.5 Religion
01:06:27 4.6 Language
01:09:01 5 Assimilation
01:09:10 5.1 Introduction
01:09:29 5.2 The apparent disappearance of German American identity
01:22:22 5.3 Factors making German Americans susceptible to assimilation
01:31:32 5.4 Persistence of unassimilated German Americans
01:34:12 6 German-American influence
01:38:24 7 Education
01:38:55 8 Notable people
01:42:46 8.1 German-American presidents
01:43:32 9 See also
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German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. With an estimated size of approximately 44 million in 2016, German Americans are the largest of the self-reported ancestry groups by the US Census Bureau in its American Community Survey. German-Americans account for about one third of the total ethnic German population in the world.None of the German states had American colonies. In the 1670s, the first significant groups of German immigrants arrived in the British colonies, settling primarily in Pennsylvania, New York, and Virginia. Immigration continued in very large numbers during the 19th century, with eight million arrivals from Germany. Between 1820 and 1870 over seven and a half million German immigrants came to the United States. By 2010, their population grew to 49.8 million German Americans, reflecting a jump of 6 million people since 2000.
There is a German belt that extends all the way across the United States, from eastern Pennsylvania to the Oregon coast. Pennsylvania has the largest population of German-Americans in the U.S. and is home to one of the group's original settlements, Germantown (Philadelphia), founded in 1683 and the birthplace of the American antislavery movement in 1688, as well as the revolutionary Battle of Germantown. The state of Pennsylvania has 3.5 million people of German ancestry.
They were pulled by the attractions of land and religious freedom, and pushed out of Germany by shortages of land and religious or political oppression. Many arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, and others for the chance to start fresh in the New World. The arrivals before 1850 were mostly farmers who sought out the most productive land, where their intensive farming techniques would pay off. After 1840, many came to cities, where Germania—German-speaking districts—soon emerged.German Americans established the first kindergartens in the United States, introduced the Christmas tree tradition, and introduced popular foods such as hot dogs and hamburgers to America.The great majority of people with some German ancestry have become Am ...