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Rochester Arts: Brando Breaks the Rules

Marlon Brando was born to break rules. And now he’d broken one to many at Faribault’s Shattuck Military Academy and the school was going to kick him out.


Rochester Arts: Tallulah Bankhead and the Blizzard

Film and stage star Tallulah Bankhead was rarely upstaged. But how could she compete with the Armistice Day Blizzard?


Rochester Arts: Rochester – A State Guide

During the Great Depression, the government put writers back to work writing guides for each state. Writers from the Federal Writers project fanned to all corners of Minnesota, including Rochester.


Rochester Arts: Peony Capital of the World

Faribault was the Peony capital of the world. So, of course, the town needed its own annual peony fest.


Rochester Arts: Rochester: A State Guide

During the Great Depression, the government put writers back to work writing guides for each state. Writers from the Federal Writers project fanned to all corners of Minnesota, including Rochester.


Rochester Arts: Mabel Ulrich’s Book and Print Shop

Mabel Ulrich was new at the Minneapolis book trade. But a group of doctor’s wives asked her to please open a branch of Mabel Ulrich’s Book and Print Shop in Rochester.


Rochester Arts: Casey at the Bat…Again

DeWolf Hopper was at New Ulm’s Turner Hall to stage his operetta Wang. But, of course, he couldn’t leave town without reciting the baseball poem he’d made famous. Casey at the Bat.


Rochester MN90: Dwellers in the Vale of Siddem

1911 – The superintendent of the School for the Feeble Minded in Faribault wanted to find out what had caused his charges to get so “defective.” In an era of Eugenics, the finger seemed to point to subpar family relations.


Rochester MN90: The Dead Friend

November 1944 – Kindergarten teacher Nellie Gilberson told Rochester police she hadn’t done it. Still, they took her to the morgue to “cleanse her soul” over the body of her dead friend.


Rochester MN90: Watkins and his Liniment

1868 – J. R. Watkins was headed to Ohio to marry his bride. But a stopover along the way gave him a new career as a muscle rub salesman.


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