"Minnesota" Minnesota by gregoryr1m

People in Music
Bob Dylan
The Andrew Sisters
Judy Garland
Prince
Jimmy Jam (producer)
Morris Day
Sounds of Blackness

People holding Public Office
Hubert H. Humphrey (Senator, Vice President, and Presidential Candidate)
Walter Mondale (Senator, Vice President, and Presidential Candidate)
Paul Wellstone (Senator)
Harry Blackmun (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
Warren E. Burger (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
Eugene McCarthy (U.S Senator and Presidential Candidate)
Jesse Ventura (Governor)
Alan Page (MN Supreme Court Justice and Football Hall of Famer)


Writers
Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Garrison Keillor
Robert Bly
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Coen Brothers (playwrites)

Actors
William Demerest (Uncle Charlie)
Lew Ayres
Jessica Lange
E. G. Marshall
Rachel Leigh Cooke
Terry Gilliam (Monte Python)
Mike Todd (producer - married to Elizabeth Taylor)
Vince Vaughn
Robert Vaughn ("Man From U.N.C.L.E," no relation to Vince)
Tippi Hedrin
Craig Kilborn (talk show host)
Louis Anderson (comedian)
Loni Anderson
Wynona Ryder
Al Frankin (humorist)
Lea Thompson
Peter Graves (James Arness brother)
James Arness (Peter Graves brother)

Athletes
Paul Molitor
David Winfield
Roger Marris
Herb Brooks
John Madden (sports broadcaster)

Artists
Leroy Neimann
Gordon Parks (not born in MN but raised here)
Paul Manship
Charles M. Schulz (cartoonist, creator of "Peanuts" comics)

Innovators
Ann Bancroft (explorer)
Charles Lindbergh (aviator)

photographed by Gregory Roth

Minnesotan baseball commentator Halsey Hal was the first to say 'Holy Cow' during a baseball broadcast.

The Mall of America in Bloomington is the size of 78 football fields --- 9.5 million square feet. It's built on the same location of the old Metropolitan Stadium (where The MN Twins played Baseball and The MN Vikings played football) and The Met Sports Center (where The MN North Stars played hockey).

Minnesota Inventions: Masking and Scotch tape, Wheaties cereal, Bisquick, HMOs, the bundt pan, Aveda beauty products, and Jolly Green Giant
vegetables

Companies that got their start in Minnesota: 3M, General Mills, Pillsbury, Honeywell

Minneapolis is home to the oldest continuously running theater (Old Log Theater) and the largest dinner theater (Chanhassan Dinner Theater) in the country.

The nation's first Better Business Bureau was founded in Minneapolis in 1912.

Rochester is home of the world famous Mayo Clinic. The clinic is a major teaching and working facility. It is known world wide for its doctor's expertise and the newest methods of treatments.

The stapler was invented in Spring Valley

The first Automatic Pop-up toaster was marketed in June 1926 by McGraw Electric Co. in Minneapolis under the name Toastmaster. The retail price was $13.50.

Tonka Trucks were developed and are continued to be manufactured in Minnetonka

Hormel Company of Austin marketed the first canned ham in 1926. Hormel introduced Spam in 1937.

Candy maker Frank C. Mars of Minnesota introduced the Milky Way candy bar in 1923. Mars marketed the Snickers bar in 1930 and introduced the 5 cent Three Musketeers bar in 1937. The original 3 Musketeers bar contained 3 bars in one wrapper. Each with different flavor nougat.

Author Laura Ingalls Wilder lived on Plum Creek near Walnut Grove. F. Scott Fitzgerald was from St. Paul. Sinclair Lewis was from Avon. Garrison Kiellor is from Anoka

Rocky and Bullwinkle were from Frostbite Falls, MN (there is no Frostbite Falls, MN)

Polaris Industries of Roseau invented the snowmobile

What do Garrison Keillor, Bob Dylan, Harry Reasoner (60 Minutes), and Henry Fonda all have in common? They all wrote for The Minnesota Daily, the student newspaper of the University of Minnesota.

State Parks*

Minnesota has about 67 states parks and I am going to try visiting a fair number of them and of course I plan on doing VT pages to celebrate their beauty.. Here's a start:

Itasca State Park
Bemidji State Park

About the photo: That was taken in 2002 at the headquarters of Senator Paul Wellstone the evening of his untimely death.