The World’s Tallest Indian
Here’s a beautiful old postcard! The skyline of Minnesota’s capital city, with a strange superimposed image of Swedish sculptor Carl Miles’ “Indian God of Peace”. The 45 foot high, 60 ton, white onyx statue, unveiled in 1936, sits on a revolving base in City Hall’s three-story memorial concourse lobby. It 132 degrees every 2.5 [...]
The Minnesota Quadriga
Above the southern entrance to the Minnesota state capital building is a gilded quadriga called “The Progress of the State”. The golden statues by Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter were hammered out of sheet metal, riveted together over steel construction, covered with copper and overlaid with gold leaf. The work was completed [...]
Saint Paul’s Rock and Roll Over Rainbow
And on the sixth day of the sixth month, twelve years into the twenty-first century this giant rainbow shows up over Hague Avenue in Saint Paul. Children start running up and down the sidewalks leaping and screaming at the top of their lovely, little lungs Rock Rock Roll Over Rainbow Rock Rock Fathers of all [...]
