"A Cosmopolitan Corner"
This file appears in: "St. Paul's Most Unique Settlement"
"Where the life of a quiet backwater flows into the life of the great city. In this region life presents a succession of amazing contrasts and a dozen races intermingle. Shakespear wrote of "Tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones," but Dickens would have found tongues in these walls, books in these chimneys and roofs, and sermons in each doorway."
Sketch of Connemara Patch
This file appears in: "St. Paul's Most Unique Settlement"
"St. Paul's Most Unique Settlement"
The headline above appeared in a 1902 issue of the St Paul Globe over a story about a “group of quaint Irish families” at the “foot of Dayton’s Bluff.” The article is one of the few extensive…