Hear the stories of the many different immigrants who have made the Cedar Riverside neighborhood their first home: Native Americans, Scandinavians, Germans, Blacks, Hippies, Koreans, East Africans and others. How did the Liquor Patrol Zone and construction of the Interstate and expansion of the U of M and Augsburg affect these Minnesota birthplaces of Folk/Blues/Rock clubs/bars/taverns and food co-ops? What's still in the neighborhood after 140 years and what's behind those multi-colored high rises jutting near the Minneapolis skyline?
Wear walking shoes for this mile-long tour. Meet at the turn-around in front of the Humphrey Institute at 301 19th Avenue South. There is a parking ramp across the street with an entrance off of Riverside Avenue or 3rd Street.
Maureen Trepp has been enchanted by the Cedar Riverside/West Bank community since she was a child shopping at Holtzerman's with her mother, as a college student protesting the Viet Nam War and drinking at the Triangle and now attending shows at The Cedar and Mixed Blood Theater. She is a former Mpls. Public Schools teacher, Mill City Museum History Interpreter, Human Geography professor at Augsburg University, and is still a community theater actor, active volunteer, caring grandmother, world traveler, and lover of history, geography and Minneapolis.