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Exploring the Itasca Rock Garden
Editor’s note: This is the first of a series featuring some of Ed Shannon’s best Lifestyles features. The following article was published Aug. 28, 2008. ...
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Arts & Culture
Best of Ed: Part 8
150 years ago, 2 men from Albert Lea were involved in the Sioux Uprising of 1862 Editor’s Note: This is the last in an eight-part ...
by Ed Shannon, Saturday, November 24, 2012 7:59 pm
Arts & Culture
Best of Ed Shannon: Part 7
Richard Carlson: Albert Lea’s other film and television star Editor’s Note: This is the seventh in an eight-part series featuring some of former Tribune writer ...
by Ed Shannon, Saturday, November 17, 2012 7:01 pm
Arts & Culture
Best of Ed Shannon: Part 6
For at least 82 years, and possibly even longer, the large bronze cross which has been a focal point of the altar at Albert Lea’s ...
by Ed Shannon, Saturday, November 10, 2012 9:45 am
Arts & Culture
The Best of Ed Shannon: Part 5
If the name of Richway Drive is really given its full potential title, the results could be Richard K. Wayne Drive. And today, 64 years ...
by Ed Shannon, Saturday, November 3, 2012 9:30 am
Arts & Culture
The Best of Ed Shannon: Part 4
There are three ways to define the word turret. One way is to say this word describes a revolving structure on a tank or warship ...
by Ed Shannon, Saturday, October 27, 2012 9:40 am
Arts & Culture
The Best of Ed: Part 3
Not too many years ago some folks in this area used to say one of their favorite fall weekend events was traveling east to look ...
by Ed Shannon, Sunday, October 21, 2012 9:45 am
Arts & Culture
The Best of Ed: Part 2
Minnesotans have managed to name their winter storms and blizzards after the seasonal holidays and special days. For example, there’s the famous one name for ...
by Ed Shannon, Saturday, October 13, 2012 11:02 am
Arts & Culture
The Best of Ed Shannon
Some of the interesting legacies of the past, which are still a part of several local homes, are porches.
by Ed Shannon, Saturday, October 6, 2012 10:00 am
Arts & Culture
The mystery of the Albert Lea Graphic
John Lang of Albert Lea recently brought an old newspaper to the Tribune with the thought the readers might be interested in the contents of ...
by Ed Shannon, Saturday, September 29, 2012 9:50 am
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Progress: Ghost towns
One of the displays inside the entry to the Freeborn County Historical Museum is a large framed map with two sets of colored bulbs.
by Ed Shannon, Monday, April 16, 2012 2:59 pm
News
Wisconsin Special
What could be one of the nation’s oldest racing cars was recently sold at an auction in Hershey, Pa.
by Ed Shannon, Friday, February 10, 2012 9:50 am
Arts & Culture
The Best of Ed Part 4
One of the area’s most unusual artistic legacies is still very visible in the rural home of Kevin and Barbara Marshall, located between Albert Lea ...
by Ed Shannon, Saturday, February 4, 2012 9:40 am
Arts & Culture
The Best of Ed Part 3
A granite rock in a farmyard located about six miles south of Albert Lea has the date of 1714 and a cross barely visible on ...
by Ed Shannon, Saturday, January 28, 2012 9:50 am
Arts & Culture
The Best of Ed: Part 2
There’s no mystery regarding the origin of the name for Albert Lea’s Faville Park.
by Ed Shannon, Saturday, January 21, 2012 10:00 am
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