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Exploring the Itasca Rock Garden

Editor’s note: This is the first of a series featuring some of Ed Shannon’s best Lifestyles features. The following article was published Aug. 28, 2008.  ... Read more

by Ed Shannon, Saturday, February 8, 2014 3:39 pm

Arts & Culture

Best of Ed: Part 8

 150 years ago, 2 men from Albert Lea were involved in the Sioux Uprising of 1862 Editor’s Note: This is the last in an eight-part ... Read more

by Ed Shannon, Saturday, November 24, 2012 7:59 pm

Arts & Culture

Best of Ed Shannon: Part 7

Richard Carlson: Albert Lea’s other film and television star Editor’s Note: This is the seventh in an eight-part series featuring some of former Tribune writer ... Read more

by Ed Shannon, Saturday, November 17, 2012 7:01 pm

Arts & Culture

Best of Ed Shannon: Part 6

For at least 82 years, and possibly even longer, the large bronze cross which has been a focal point of the altar at Albert Lea’s ... Read more

by Ed Shannon, Saturday, November 10, 2012 9:45 am

Arts & Culture

The Best of Ed Shannon: Part 5

If the name of Richway Drive is really given its full potential title, the results could be Richard K. Wayne Drive. And today, 64 years ... Read more

by Ed Shannon, Saturday, November 3, 2012 9:30 am

Arts & Culture

The Best of Ed Shannon: Part 4

There are three ways to define the word turret. One way is to say this word describes a revolving structure on a tank or warship ... Read more

by Ed Shannon, Saturday, October 27, 2012 9:40 am

Arts & Culture

The Best of Ed: Part 3

Not too many years ago some folks in this area used to say one of their favorite fall weekend events was traveling east to look ... Read more

by Ed Shannon, Sunday, October 21, 2012 9:45 am

Arts & Culture

The Best of Ed: Part 2

Minnesotans have managed to name their winter storms and blizzards after the seasonal holidays and special days. For example, there’s the famous one name for ... Read more

by Ed Shannon, Saturday, October 13, 2012 11:02 am

Arts & Culture

The Best of Ed Shannon

Some of the interesting legacies of the past, which are still a part of several local homes, are porches. Read more

by Ed Shannon, Saturday, October 6, 2012 10:00 am

Arts & Culture

The mystery of the Albert Lea Graphic

John Lang of Albert Lea recently brought an old newspaper to the Tribune with the thought the readers might be interested in the contents of ... Read more

by Ed Shannon, Saturday, September 29, 2012 9:50 am

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Progress: Ghost towns

One of the displays inside the entry to the Freeborn County Historical Museum is a large framed map with two sets of colored bulbs. Read more

by Ed Shannon, Monday, April 16, 2012 2:59 pm

News

Wisconsin Special

What could be one of the nation’s oldest racing cars was recently sold at an auction in Hershey, Pa. Read more

by Ed Shannon, Friday, February 10, 2012 9:50 am

Arts & Culture

The Best of Ed Part 4

One of the area’s most unusual artistic legacies is still very visible in the rural home of Kevin and Barbara Marshall, located between Albert Lea ... Read more

by Ed Shannon, Saturday, February 4, 2012 9:40 am

Arts & Culture

The Best of Ed Part 3

A granite rock in a farmyard located about six miles south of Albert Lea has the date of 1714 and a cross barely visible on ... Read more

by Ed Shannon, Saturday, January 28, 2012 9:50 am

Arts & Culture

The Best of Ed: Part 2

There’s no mystery regarding the origin of the name for Albert Lea’s Faville Park. Read more

by Ed Shannon, Saturday, January 21, 2012 10:00 am

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