“Origin Story of
Fort Road/West Seventh Street,
the Township/City of Saint Paul,
the Territory/State of Minnesota,
Glacial Age Forward”
Monthly Serialization (in print and online):
Community Reporter
- May 2025: Origin Story, Part the First:
Introduction to the Monthly Serialization
- July 2025: Origin Story, Part the Second:
Deluge
- August 2025: Origin Story, Part the Third:
Native Lands
- September 2025: Origin Story, Part the Fourth:
Les Français Arrivent avec les Ojibwés
- October 2025: Origin Story, Part the Fifth:
The Delusion of Downtown St. Paul
- November 2025: Origin Story, Part the Sixth:
John Irvine, Granddaddy of W7 / Saint Paul
- December 2025: Origin Stories Part the Seventh:
Not in the Book’s History, Lucy Leavenworth
- January 2026: Origin Stories Part the Eighth:
Fort Snelling at Bdote
- February 2026: Origin Stories Part the Ninth:
Origins of St. Paul, Radically Revised
- March 2026: Origin Stories Part The Tenth:
Origins of the Church Of Saint Paul
- April 2026: Origin Story Part The Eleventh:
Water Water Everywhere And A Dangerous Drop To Drink
- May 2026: Origin Story Part The Twelfth:
Robert
Sweeny Sketches Early Saint Paul
- June 2026: Origin Stories Part the Thirteenth:
Einwanderung Angespannte/German Fraught Immigration Part 1
- July 2026 Origin Stories Part the Fourteenth:
German Immigration Part 2 : Taverns, Brewers and Maltsters
- August 2026: Origin Stories Part the Fifteenth:
Citizen
Helpers
- September 2026: Origin Stories Part the Sixteenth:
The Healers
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October 2026: Origin Stories Part the Seventeenth
Its Not Third Street (Kellogg Boulevard)
- November 2026: Part the Eighteenth
Historic Banfil Street
- December 2026: Origin Stories Part the Nineteen
The Brewery Corridor
- January 2027: Origin Stories Part the Twentieth
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February 2027: Origin Stories Part the Twenty-first
...
Presentations: 2026. The series of booktalks is now
concluded.
In 2027 I will present on German immigration into
Saint Paul as part of a four-part seminar.
- October 20: Landmark Center historic site
Many thanks to the Landmark Center Volunteer Association
Engagement Series for hosting my last "booktalk" in its
historic 3rd floor courtroom. - October 1: Becketwood 7-8 pm
- September 27: 37th Annual Czech Slovak Festival
Historic CSPS Hall, 11 a.m. -4 p.m.
- September 13: WestFest, Tours of the Historic CSPS
Hall, 1 & 3 p.m.
- August 5/18: Interview KARE 11 on the history of W7 with Raya Quttaineh
KARE!! TV
broadcast West Seventh neighborhood and its "Origin
Story"
On West 7th Street, grants help businesses invest in the future while preserving the past
- June 13-14: Deutsche Tage (German Days), Germanic American Institute
- June 7: Grand Old Days, TCFM Meetinghouse
- May 29: French Heritage Corridor: 6th Annual Conference panel discussion. Alliance Française MSP
- May 15:
German American Heritage Society, New Ulm
- Fridays, April 3-May 15: Origin Select Topics, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute seminar,
UMN
- March 26: Czech Heritage Giesenbrau New Prague
- March 6: Henderson High School at CSPS Hall
- February 22: St. Michaels Lutheran Church, Roseville
- February 6: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, UMN
- Janaury 27: State and Local Historians Association
Presentations: 2025
- November 8: Twin Cities Book Festival
- August 17: Germanic-American Institute Cafe
- Thursday, June 5, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Minnesota College of Continuing and Professional Studies
- May 9: Saint Paul Friday Lunch Forum
- April 29: Fort Road Federation/ District 9 Community Council’s annual meeting,
- February 18: Saint Paul Rotary Club (University Club)
- February 27 West Seventh Library and Keystone/West Seventh Community Center
- March 24: PBS documentary "We Are the River" Consultant
- March 24: West Seventh Library and Keystone/West Seventh Community Center
- March 14, Czech and Slovak Sokol Minnesota (historic C.S.P.S. Hall
- January 6: My Villager of Highland Park of Saint Paul, Front page feature
- November 28 (2024): Community Reporter of the West End of Saint Paul, Front page feature
Kiosk: Guides for learning
(2024)
Website
Restored, reformatted, and revised with 200 guides to promote learning, middle school through returning adult--with translations in 38 languages! Non-ChatGPT, non-Bard; non-AI.
A freely accessible educational
environment that offers strategies to recognize and realize learning
objectives. We accept individual differences without regard to ability and
creed; sexual and affectional orientation; caste, tribal and national
affiliation; individual, familial and collective history. Content dates from
1996.
I sold my bluffside home of 40+ years in 2022 when my partner Steve
and I moved next door to a house and gardens we built over four years.
The Website Aging Gardens
is an inventory of the perennials, ground covers, bushes, trees, cacti and houseplants over the years.
Check out our new home:
(and these features)
Minneapolis/Saint Paul Home Tour, April 30/May 1, 2022.
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
HOME & GARDEN section, August 19, 2022:
St. Paul garden tour founder
is all about creating Zen in his garden ... By Nancy Ngo
Community
service and volunteer activities.
KARE11 television station
(August 5, 2026): interview with Raya Quttaineh
MN
Public Radio (January 28, 2014) "Music with Minnesotans";
"MN State Capital" (January 15, 2014) documentary;
KARE-11 (June 24, 2011) "Summer Backyard (Garden) Tour";
Czech Radio (March 4, 2008)
Professional activities including research and development of Online educational resources
Joseph Frank Landsberger
Next Generation Indie Book Awards, first place:
Aging Gardens
Website
Recognition:
Media:
CV/Resume
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