North Country Anvil records, 1969-1990.

Olson, Sigurd F., 1899-1982

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Olson is past president of the National Parks Association and the Wilderness Society and author of many books on wilderness areas and the environment. From the description of Oral history interview with Sigurd F. Olson, 1976 May 27. (Minnesota Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 45441498 1899 Born April 4 in Chicago, Illinois, the second son of Lawrence J. Olson, a Baptist minister, and Ida ...

Le Sueur, Meridel

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Meridel Le Sueur was born February 22, 1900, in Murray, Iowa. She did not finish high school, dropping out before the First World War. She began writing at the age of fifteen. Largely self-taught, Miss Le Sueur attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She came to know John Reed and met Theodore Dreiser and Edna St. Vincent Millay at Mabel Dodge's literary salon. She won acclaim in 1927 for her story Persephone and again in 1934 for The Horse. She was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. S...

Youngdale, James M.

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Foster, Ellery A.

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Ellery Foster was born in 1905 in Elmira Township, Olmstead County, Minnesota. He served in the U.S. Forestry Service, U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics, the War Production Board, and was a State Forester in Minnesota (1938, 1939). He was Director of Research and Education for the International Woodworkers of America (CIO) from 1945 to 1948. Marion G. Foster, born in St. Paul, worked as a newpaper reporter, social worker, and later an associate professor of sociology and/or social work at Mi...

Hampl, Patricia, 1946-

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Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party

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Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) was officially formed on April 15, 1944, the result of a merger of the existing Democratic Party and the Farmer-Labor Party. Although the two entities had competed vigorously throughout their pasts, they had been brought into closer harmony through their mutual support of New Deal programs, through Popular Front collaborations during World War II, and through a realistic acceptance of the fact that they were effectively splitting the s...

Bernard, John T. (John Toussaint), 1893-1983

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Tilsen, Kenneth E., 1927-

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Kenneth Earl Tilsen was born on November 4, 1927, in New Leipzig, North Dakota, one of five children. Tilsen's family lived briefly in Michigan, then moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where Tilsen attended first-grade classes. Tilsen's awareness of social inequities and the disenfranchised began early in life. Tilsen's father founded Tilsen Homes, the Twin Cities' first builder of integrated housing. Tilsen spent his formative years in St. Paul's Selby-Dale neighborhood, the...

North Country Anvil, Inc. (Winona, Minn.).

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The North Country Anvil was a literary-political magazine founded and published in southern Minnesota by Jack Miller as an alternative journalistic venture opposed to the establishment press. North Country Alternatives, Inc., the magazine's publishing house, was organized in Millville in 1971. The first issue of the magazine appeared in June 1972. In 1980 the enterprise reorganized under the name North Country Anvil, Inc., and in the mid-1980s the publishing venture moved to Winona. The magazine...

Miller, Jack L.

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