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Save the Date Nov. 16 | pg 8 NEWS & VIEWS OF PHILLIPS SINCE 1976 september 2012 • Volume 37, Number 8 “Repair” Reparation for 350* in “Potter’s Field” Sept 9th 1:30 PM By Sue Hunter Weir On September 9, 2012, there Tales from Pioneers will be a dedication and remem- & Soldiers Cemetery brance ceremony for 350 people whose deaths passed more or Sue Hunter Weir less unnoticed in the early part 95th in a Series of the 20th century. They are buried together at the bottom of ing causes of “natural” deaths. the hill in the Potters Field at Accidental deaths were common, Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers especially accidents that occurred Memorial Cemetery. As Francis in the railroad yards. Deaths due to Phelan, protagonist of William “falls” were not uncommon. And, Kennedy’s Ironweed, viewed it, of course, alcohol was often a fac- they are neighbors, situated in this tor in accidental deaths. particular place since some time Many of the men died in charity This “Potter’s Field” lies in a remote corner of Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery and between 1914 and 1916. They are hospitals, and although hospital neighboring the South Transfer Station. It is home to 350 indigent people who were used the people whose remains were the administrators and the county cor- in medical research from 1914 to 1916 by the University of Minnesota Medical School. subject of study at the University’s oner attempted to locate relatives, anatomy program during those they were often unsuccessful. It photo by Clarasophia Gust years. The contributions that they was easy for men to get lost back “The hill had a nice flow to it that carried you down the grass…Being dead here would situate a man in place and time. It would give a man neighbors…” Ironweed by William Kennedy photo by Harvey Winje A simple tombstone of austere black granite at the extreme northeast corner of Pioneers and Soldiers made to medical research will in the days when there were no Cemetery marks the “Potter’s Field” resting place of 350 people. This marker of reparation cannot be acknowledged when a black drivers’ licenses, no social secu- identify and give proper acknowledgement of each life, but it does bear witness that a large institution granite marker, a gift from the rity numbers, no standard forms can acknowledge and begin to repair a previous injustice delivered by those in decision-making roles University of Minnesota, is dedi- of identification. The newspapers at that time. cated to their memory on Sunday, were full of stories about fami- September 9th. lies trying to locate missing rela- *“Repair: The Impulse to Restore Who are the people being hon- tives, wanting them to come home. ored? One hundred of them are Many families waited in vain for in a Fragile World” infants who were stillborn or who word from their missing husbands By Elizabeth V. Spelman, Reprinted ers of all manner of human woes. to reweave what we revealingly died shortly after birth in one of the and sons. Nineteen of the men are from “Repair” by Elizabeth Spelman, Relationships between individuals call the social fabric. No wonder, city’s charity hospitals. Most of the identified only as “unknown man.” Beacon Press, 2002 and among nations are notori- then, that H. reparans is always rest were adult men who ranged Several others are elderly widow- The Human Being is a repair- ously subject to fraying and being and everywhere on call: we, the in age from 21 to 80 years old. ers who had no wives or chil- ing animal. Repair is ubiquitous, rent asunder. From apologies and world we live in, and the objects Many of them were immigrants, dren left to arrange for their buri- something we engage in every day other informal attempts at patch- and relationships we create are most from Scandinavia but from als. Regardless of who they were and in almost every dimension of ing things up to law courts, con- countries like Poland, Ireland and or where they came from, their our lives. Homo sapiens is also flict mediation, and truth and rec- Restore Macedonia as well. They tended remains were buried without fan- Homo reparans. onciliation commissions, we try see page 3 to be unskilled migratory workers fare or mourners at the end of each Perhaps the most obvious kinds “History, despite its who came to the city from min- academic year. This year, thanks to of repair are those having to do ing and lumber camps up north the University of Minnesota, they with the inanimate objects with wrenching pain, cannot be or from the harvest fields in rural will receive the acknowledgment which we surround ourselves— unlived, but if faced with Minnesota and the Dakotas. They that they deserve. the clothes calling out for mend- were men who were willing and The dedication and remem- ing, the automobiles for fixing, courage, need not be lived again. “ able to work in isolated areas as brance ceremony will begin at the buildings for renovating, the – Maya Angelou long as there was work to be done. 1:30. Following the ceremony, works of art for restoring. But our When the work ran out or when light refreshments will be served bodies and souls also are by their Repairs and reparation are about the winter set in, they headed back to and guests will have the opportu- nature subject to fracture and fis- future. Read more by Sue Hunter Weir in the city and tried their best, though nity to learn more about the history sure, for which we seek homely not always successfully, to fit in. of medical research in the early household recipes for healing and a reprint of a poignant, recent article on They died from any number 20th century and about the people consolation or, perhaps the expert Page 3, “…who is worth remembering of causes. Heart disease, cancer whose lives are being remembered. ministrations of surgeons, thera- and tuberculosis (known as the Please join us on this very special pists, and other menders and fix- and who is not…?” “white plague”) were the lead- occasion. Everyone is welcome. 2 Books-Words-Aud/Vid-Computer & Running Wolf The Alley Newspaper • September 2012 September Programs at the A Running Wolf View Franklin Library So Proud…an Amazing By Erin Thomasson P.O. Box 7006 Minneapolis, MN 55407 Children’s Programs Feeling Editor’s Cell Phone 612-990-4022 Buttons & Micarta Chip Magic [email protected] Sat. Sept. 15, 2–3 p.m. Reg. By TAnya Boyd www.alleynews.org req. begins Aug 18: online or Hi, Follow us twitter.com/alleynewspaper 612-543-6925. K-grade 6. Give My name is “We came into this world to give new life to recycled festival/ Tanya Boyd. I’m truth a little jog onward and to help event buttons. Micarta chips or from Mille Lacs our neighbors rights” countertop samples. Create a pin band of Ojibwa. Ann Greene Phillips (18__-1885) Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) of your inner self & a necklace I’m an intern at Board of Directors: Cathy Strobel, ID tag with fun and funky Running Wolf Fitness Center. President; Leon Oman, Treasurer; materials. Franklin I just wanted to share a little to work on my people skills and Sue Hunter Weir, Joan Hautman, Family Storytime Community Library about my experience working customer service! Dimpho Orion Senior Editor: Harvey Winje, Wed’s 10:30–11 a.m. Age 2 & 1314 E. Franklin Avenue at Running Wolf Fitness Center, With the flex work program [email protected]; up. Share books, stories, rhymes, New #: 952-847-2925 before I’m done working here. the goal is to complete a certain 612-990-4022 music, & movement with your I have been working here for 6 number of approved hours and Co-Editor and Designer: children. www.mplib.org months now and I really like it. I then move onto a paid position Jonathan Miller Kids: Read Book-See Movie Tues & Thurs: 12 - 8 pm never thought that I would get a or go to school. I’m upset about [email protected] Wed, Fri & Sat: To Advertise: Sat. Sep. 22, 2-4 p.m. Grades job! One day I realized I couldn’t leaving, but I know there are more [email protected] 3-6. Many books become 10 am – 6 pm depend on anyone but myself to opportunities out there for me! 612-990-4022 movies! Watch a movie & Complete program take care of me and my son. So I I made a lot of new friends and Alley Communications, a 501C-3, discuss book & movie. Call for calendar, visit, call, or was determined to find a job! But really learned about what it means Not-for-Profit Corp. publishes venue. how and where would I start? I to work every day. It has given The Alley. Donations are needed, www.hclib.org and news never had a job and I’m in my mid me direction to move on to what welcome, and Tax Deductible at www.hclib.org/pub/ Contributors to this issue: Teen Programs twenties! Then one day I went to I want to do. I plan to go back to Robert Albee, , A-Pod, Bridging 4-H Mentoring Club info/newsroom/ Mille Lacs Work Force Center to school and help others. Minneapolis, Cultural Wellness Tue’s Sept. 4–Nov. 27, 5–7 p.m. discussion of nonfiction books. see if they could help me find a Running Wolf Fitness Center Center, East Phillips Improvement Grades 6-12. Learn urban job, I met with the job developer is such an amazing place to have Coalition, Friends of the Cemetery, Info; 612-543-5475. City of Mpls., Tanya Boyd, ecology, health & nutrition, Memoir Writing Group Sandra. She told me about a pro- in the Phillips community. One of Clarasophia Gust, Susan Gust, sustainable agriculture & careers Thurs. Sep. 20, 1-3 p.m. gram they have called flex labor the best thing about it is the mem- Linnea Hadaway, Holle Harrison, in food science from adults Like to create a record of where they help you find a job to berships are only 10 bucks! They Kim Hayden, Hennepin County & peer mentors; maintain a personal history? Bring what you learn skills. offer personal training and fitness Franklin Library, Jacy Hildreth, Sue community garden & visit food Then she went on to tell me classes that are included in the Hunter Weir, ideawerks, Interact, have written & are willing to Soren Jensen, Dallas Johnson, places. read for helpful comments and about Running Wolf Fitness 10 dollar membership. Everybody Jungle Theatre, Lake Street Council, Game On! Tuesdays suggestions. Center and how they needed is welcome to join! I hope you Main Street, Howard McQuitter Tue’s Sept. 4–Nov. 27, 7–8 p.m. some one to come and help out can come and see what we have II, Midtown Greenway Coalition, Grades 6-12. Play PS2 or Wii Phillips Technology Center as soon as possible. So I decided at Running Wolf soon. I plan to Jonathan Miller, Minnesota games! Bring board or card to go interview with the manager, come back and work out too, even Historical Society, MN Literacy Register online www.hclib.org Society, Peter Molenaar, Dave game, or play ours! or call 612.543.6925 Connie Norman. I was very ner- after my hours are up at Running Moore, Connie Norman, Brad Chess Club Microsoft Publisher: Basics vous and didn’t know what to say. Wolf and I am grateful for the Pass, Carol Pass, PWNO, Open Eye Wed’s Sept. 5–Nov. 28, Thurs. Sept. 20, noon–2 p.m. But I guess I did okay because I opportunity to learn about the Theatre, Bonnie Riatt, Running Wolf 4–6 p.m. Grades 6-12. Have fun Learn to use the menus and got the job! I have never been so world of work with the Running Fitness Center, Simone Speers, learning the basics, improving proud of myself it was an amazing Wolf Fitness Center. Elizabeth Spelman, Erin Thomasson, toolbars to create & publish your Whittier Neighborhood Org., Crystal your game, mastering strategies own fliers, brochures & greeting feeling to have done something As the manager of Running Trautnau Windschitl, Joyce Wisdom, & meet chess fans. Walk-ins OK. cards. good for me and my son! Wolf, I am sad to see Tanya’s Tish Rivera-Cree, Maria Krisch Teen Anime Club Microsoft Excel: Basics Since I have been working I time with us come to an end. Printing: Page 1 Printers Thurs. Sept. 6 & 20, 4 p.m. Fri. Sep. 21, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. met a lot of wonderful new people But she has developed some great Door to Door Delivery: Youth Grades 6-12. Watch anime, and learned many new things. skills and has developed a great groups from Calvary Church, Learn the basics of working with Donna Neste, Andrew, Beverly, discuss manga, share artwork, an Excel spreadsheet: navigation, I learned how to follow proto- work ethic and we wish her well. Brad, Brad, Carol, Christine, work on cosplay; different every entering data & using formulas cols, be on a schedule, enter data She has no idea how much she Patrick, Leon, Cathy, Dave, East time, chosen by the club. and ‘save as.’ in Excel Microsoft, make intake has helped Running Wolf grow! Phillips Improvement Coalition, First Pages for Teens: Creating Computer Skills Workshop files, meet and greet people, give Thanks Tanya! Jacy, Jana, Heidi, Howard, Joyce, Fictional Worlds clients tours of the facility, answer Lynne, Marjorie, Midtown Farmer’s Fri. Sep. 21, 1–3 p.m. and Thur. Market, Nathan Matter, Midtown Wed. Sept. 26, 4:30–6 p.m. Sep. 27, noon-2 p.m. Work on the phone calls, and cleaning when Phillips, Muriel, Paul, Phillips West, Grades 7-12. Reg. req. begins projects & practice skills from needed., Most of all I learned how Raymond, Stephanie, Tara, Vi. Will Aug 29; online or call 612-543- using the mouse & keyboarding you deliver a block or two or your 6925. How to create fictional to using email & Microsoft apartment? Call Harvey 612-990- vivid & detailed “other worlds”? 4022 Office with our software Bulk Delivery: Lyle James Delivery Learn how authors mastered instructors & volunteer assistants. 250 Apartments, Businesses, Places creating these alternate worlds. & Microsoft PowerPoint: Basics WELNA of Worship, and Organizations; this how you can too. Fri. Sept. 28, 1–3 p.m. Create issue is having volunteers deliver- Game On! Gaming Thursdays presentations & use the ribbon to HARDWARE ing many blocks of these neigh- Thur’s thru Nov 29, 4-5 p.m. borhoods Ventura Village, Phillips create a basic slide show. West, Midtown Phillips, East Grades 6-12. Play PS2 or Wii Cloud Computing: Microsoft Phillips, Central, Powderhorn Park, games! Grab a friend, bring Office Web Apps and Google and Corcoran; and the usual spots favorite board or card game, or Docs. Fri. Sept. 28, 10a.m. – in Longfellow, Cooper, Cedar- play ours! noon. Learn about Google Docs Riverside, Elliott Park, Whittier, and Young Achievers Lyndale. and Microsoft Office Web Apps, Thur’s thru Nov. 29, 5–7 p.m. Circulation: 10,000 hard free Web-based applications for • copies and online. Grades 6-12. Want to be involved creating documents, spreadsheets, KEYS MADE in community? Concerned about & more. (Internet and email • health & lifestyle? Bring friends savvy required.) LOCKS RE-KEYED October Alley & come for poetry, arts, games • Deadline: & more! Franklin Learning Center 5 GALLON PAINT September 15 Movies for Teens Free, one-to-one tutoring for Fri’s thru Nov. 30, 4–6 p.m. adults learning English and • EXCELLENT PRICES Grades 6-12. Movies teen-chosen math, preparing for the GED and with big-screen cinema feeling. citizenship exams, & life skills. • RUG DOCTOR RENTAL Community volunteers needed! Adult Programs No experience necessary; training • EXPERT WINDOW/SCREEN REPAIR Seniors Play-Reading Group & materials provided. 952-847- Fri. Sep. 14, 10:30 a.m.– 2934. • T railers For Rent– 12:30 p.m. Join us for a open and one enclosed stimulating reading & discussion The Crossword is tak- of some great plays. ing a break this month. 2201 East Franklin 612-332-4393 Nonfiction Elder Book 2438 Bloomington 612-729-3526 Discussions Fri. Sep. 14, Look for it in October 1–3 p.m. Join us for a stimulating The Alley Newspaper • September 2012 Cemetery History 3 Who is worth remembering and who is not?

They are about stories; they are tectural features, but another part, because vaccinations for commu- about community. perhaps the most important part, nicable diseases didn’t exist. “…who is worth remember- recognizes the role that the people Ordinary people doing ing and who is not…?” who are buried here in the Phillips extraordinary things. Howard Mansfield (“In the community played in both our It tells the story of ordinary Memory House”) asks important local and national history. They people doing extraordinary things: questions about which people we are not people whose names are mothers who died rescuing their as a society choose to remember household words, yet they are rec- children from fires and friends and which we choose to forget. ognized as nation builders. who died trying to save their Importantly, these are choices that So, what does this Cemetery drowning friends. It tells the story we make. “Facts are never sim- tell us about ourselves and our of neighbors helping neighbors in ply recorded; they are recorded shared history? For one thing, it times of crisis and need. by people for a purpose (HM).” tells us that our community has It tells why one community and Judgments are made about who always been diverse. The cem- its people represent a nation. It is worth remembering and who etery’s original owners belonged tells of those “whose generosity is not. to the First Baptist Church of extended beyond life for medical To a large extent those deci- Minneapolis, which had close school anatomy teaching.” sions are made on the basis of ties to the anti-slavery movement. We and our stories matter. artifacts, but remaining artifacts Approximately 170 men buried In the Backyard Initiative’s do not tell the whole story. The in the cemetery, both African- 2009 Listening Circles Report, historical record is distorted by American and white, fought to the need for a sense of community the fact that surviving artifacts end slavery. and interconnectedness and the are unrepresentative (HM).” We It tells the stories, some heart- power of relationships were recur- have saved mansions but not the breaking and some triumphant, ring themes. It’s important for us homes of working class people. of thousands of immigrants who to know that we and our stories photo by Clarasophia Gust Everyone has a story and those came here to escape poverty and matter. We can choose who we University of Minnesota “Potter’s Field Marker as viewed through stories can, and should be pre- political oppression to build a bet- want to remember and why and the chain link fence between the marker and the road to the served. ter future for their children. Many make them part of our commu- Garbage Transfer Station viewing toward Lake Street. Nation Builders. of these immigrants were the peo- nity’s history. Tell your stories. By Sue Hunter Weir and in particular Pioneers and Minneapolis Pioneers and ple who worked, and all too often Write them down. Pass them on. Reprinted here with some Soldiers Cemetery at Cedar and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery is died, in flourmills, lumber mills Make your story part of our his- changes from The Alley July Lake Street. listed in the National Register and railroad yards. tory and make our community a 2012, page 6 because it explains Cemeteries are about more than of Historic Places. It is a place It tells the story of thousands force to be reckoned with. It’s the so well the inherent, integral, our physical selves, they are about of national, not just local, sig- of children who died from drink- healthy thing to do. imperative place that cemeteries the legacy that we leave to others nificance. Part of the designation ing or coming into contact with in general have for a community and that others have given to us. recognizes the cemetery’s archi- contaminated water or who died

Restore from page 1 witness to the sheer variety of H. ruins, alone: Restorers of Gone reparans’ capabilities: The twin With the Wind had to decide What’s the origin of the by their very nature things that towers can neither be repaired nor whether a flaw in the original can break, decay, unravel, fall to restored, but as the president of should ‘be fixed or retained as pieces. the Historic Districts Council of an intrinsic part of the original term “Potters Field” Our reparative repertoire is New York City sees it, whatever masterpiece’; echoing the fate The place where indigent or unknown vast, something readily rich- is done at the site ‘must reweave of Humpty-Dumpty, a political ly attested to by sources rang- the damaged threads of fabric that columnist counsels her readers, people are laid to rest ing from Reader’s Digest stories terrorism sought to tear apart, and ‘You don’t have to be abused or about legendary handymen to create a sense of place that fills betrayed to have a bad marriage— The New York Correction field, to bury strangers in. essays in professional journals on the void and honors the losses of a marriage that cannot be fixed, History Society web page says, The original Potters Field is the ethics of environmental resto- “‘Potters Field’ probably derives thought to have been located in ration; from Dave Barry’s send- We, the world we live in, and the objects from the Gospel of Matthew. In the Hinnom valley in Jerusalem. The ups of men’s delusions about their and relationships we create are by their book, after Judas Iscariot betrays burial ground was also called the superior repairing skills to legal Christ, he repents and returns his ‘Field of Blood’ or ‘Aceldama’ in treatises weighing monetary repa- very nature things that can break, decay, payment of 30 pieces of silver to the Aramaic language. rations against the work of truth unravel, fall to pieces. the priests before hanging himself. Usually with etymology ques- and reconciliation commissions; The priests called the coins “the tions, we find a number of likely from The You Don’t Need a Man “Repair,” E. Spelman price of blood” and did not want explanations (along with some to Fix It Book: The Woman’s to put them in the temple treasury, not-so-likely ones). But in the Guide to Confident Home Repair Sept. 11.’ In one issue alone of even with the help of all the thera- so they used them to buy a field: case of ‘Potters Field,’ there seems to Tikkun, the journal embla- the New York Times Magazine, pists on the Upper West Side, or And they took counsel, and to be a general consensus that the zoned with the Hebrew phrase there were stories devoted to the all the preachers in Louisiana.’ A bought with them the potter’s term comes from the Bible tikkun olam, to repair the world. tasks of ‘mending a psyche’ and of sticker on the bottom of a painted Newspapers and magazines pro- figuring out ‘how to put the family floor mat instructs users, ‘Over vide a steady stream of reports back together.’ An op-ed essay by time, you may notice yellowing on the vast variety of projects and former Secretary of the Treasury or cracking. These imperfections REPAIR to Cemetery Fence problems awaiting H. reparans: Robert Rubin on September are consistent with the nature of Wrought by a blacksmith…rusted by air and former President Bill Clinton has a 30 described “A Post-Disaster hand-made mats and are NOT ‘reputation to salvage,’ through he Economy in Need of Repair.’ considered flaws, but rather a nor- water over time and former Vice President Al Gore H. reparans also can be found mal part of the life and character What’s old is are said to have ‘patched up their wondering whether sometimes it of these mats.’ new again. On tattered relationship.’ Citizens isn’t the better part of wisdom to August 21, 2012, in Cincinnati, Ohio are work- leave the flaws, the fragments, the the Heritage ing on ‘repairing civic morale’ Preservation in response to racial tensions. Commission A team of conservators at the passed a reso- Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam lution approv- has successfully met ‘one of the ing the work on Minnesota Historical Society biggest challenges of their profes- Phase III of the sion: how to repair, seamlessly, a fence restora-

large-format, basically monochro- tion. Phase III is “What’s old is new again.” Photo credit: matic canvas’ (Barnett Newman’s almost complete. Cathedra). Consumer Reports Workers are reinstalling the fresh- for adoption. You can adopt one regularly offers advice on whether ly painted sections of the fence on-line at www.friendsofthecem- to ‘Fix it or nix it,’ ‘Fix it or sell this week. If all goes as planned, etery.org or by sending a donation it.’ The wide range of response to work on the fence should be com- to Friends of the Cemetery, the horrible wounds inflicted on pleted by May 2013. There are P. O. Box 7345, Minneapolis, September 11, 2001, bear solemn still plenty of pickets available MN 55407. 4 August Celebrations & Sept Announcements The Alley Newspaper • September 2012 The 16th Annual Phillips Amen Corner First Anniversary Photo Review These August 9th and 10th photos are from the First Anniversary West National Night Out of employing the “Amen Corner” phenomenon at Touchstone Plaza at Franklin and Chicago Avenues The “Amen Corner” name & phenomenon featuring people who had to confront and act on truths they discovered about themselves comes from “Amen Corner” a play by James Baldwin.

By Crystal Windschitl PWNO NNO was a huge suc- cess! We set a record with over 2400 participants! We had 2 snow cone stands, popcorn, ice cream cups, hot dogs, corn on the cob, watermelon, cookies, orange soda, snapple and freezies! There were 3 clowns, 2 magicians, an 8 member Mariachi Band, the MN Teen Challenge Choir, Rene Salsa Dancers, Facepainting, Fish Pond, Mickey Mouse, The Saint Hope Baptist Church, Open Door Mary’s Cardinal Mascot, McGruff Evangelist Church, Open Eye the Crime Dog, Minneapolis Mad Figure Theatre, Phillips Local Dads Mobile Unit Sound & Rap Food Resource Hub, Phillips Contest, 2 Bounce Houses, 1 Partnership, Police Reserves, Blow Up Slide, a Fire Truck, 4-5 PICA Head Start, Phillips West Police Cars, Minnesota Humane Neighborhood Organization, Society Mobile Unit, Sign Making Portland Avenue Block workshop and Open Eye Figure Club, Peter Thompson, Saint Theatres Tandum Bicycle! Mary’s University, MN Teen Information Booths & Sponsors Challenge, We Love Kids Daycare, included: Abbott Northwestern Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Hospital & Food Tent, Phillips Wells Fargo Bank, YWCA of Eye Institute, American Minneapolis, Lutheran Social Swedish Institute, Augsburg Service of MN, Ryan Companies Fairview Academy, Be the Vote and many others. Please forgive Coalition, Childcare Works, any oversight omissions. Children’s Hospital & Clinics of We had a visit from several Minneapolis, Community Action politicians too including our City of Minneapolis, Corner House, Council Vice President Robert Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, Lilligren, State Rep. Karen Clark, Ebenezer on Portland, Ebenezer on Congressman Keith Ellison, Park, Ebenezer at Loren, 2615 Park Hennepin County Attorney Mike Avenue Associates, Park Avenue Freeman and many others I might Center, City of Minneapolis Police also be forgetting! We had Great Department, Hennepin County Weather, Great Entertainment, Probation, Midtown Safety Center, Great Partners, Great Information Hennepin County, Humane Booths & a Great turnout!!!!!! Society, Kaleidescope Place Kids, I even have a video of the Salsa Mad Dads, Messiah Lutheran Dancers doing a group line dance Church, Midtown Community that the Police participated in! Energy Planning, Midtown Thank you to all of the residents Greenway Coalition, Midtown and Community partners who Global Market, McDonald’s, made this event such a HUGE MN Secretary of State, New SUCCESS! Phillips West Neighborhood Upcoming Events July 5th (Thursday) 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Phillips West Monthly Community Meeting! Join your neighbors and other Community Partners for updates from Local Government, Business Partners including the American Swedish Institute and the new be provided! If you would Birth Center, Residents, and like more information contact Police. This event will take place Crystal at 612-879-5383 or email at the Center for Changing Lives [email protected] or check in the Centrum Room located on out our website for up to date the 1st floor (2400 Park Avenue). Community Resources at www. Free parking is available in the phillipswest.info rear off Oakland Avenue. Free Pizza Dinner & Beverages will The Alley Newspaper • September 2012 NNO & Lake St. NOTES & Don’t Miss Dates 9, 11, 15, 22, 29 5 National Night Out Notes EPIC September from Neighborhood Happenings in Good Turnouts in 2012 East Phillips Widespread, Enthusiastic Involvement Right On Lake Street By Soren JenseN grounds, cultures, ethnicities, ages, Many NNO events happened etc. spend time together and enjoy on August 7th throughout the doing simple things like eating, Backyard area. Some had a cou- talking and playing games. I love ple of families, some over 100 the diversity and beauty of our people, and one 2500 people. At neighborhood! whatever size thay are ALL a Thanks to the City of By Carol Pass, EPIC President HUGE success at meeting the Minneapolis for promoting and EPIC Board of Directors meets: Hi-Lake Triangle Apartments goal of getting people to meet one supporting this event as well. Saturday, September 1st at 10:00 another and mark their block as am at East Phillips Park Opinions Wanted! a great place to live. Here are a JOIN Progressive EPIC General Membership By EPIC couple of random reports. Meeting meets: Thursday, The City of Minneapolis The 2400 and 2500 blocks of Dinner on September 13th, 6:30 pm at East has invited the East Phillips 12th and 13th Ave had their fifth the Midtown Phillips Park. Improvement Coalition (EPIC), annual NNO party (and I know DON’T FORGET!! WRITE the Corcoran Neighborhood there were many more in years Greenway YOUR COMMENTS about the Association and the Longfellow HOURCAR’s newest location before I lived here, but I have been Sunday, September 23, 4 NEW 64 Unit APARTMENT Community Council to review and recenty opened at the Midtown directly involved with the last five). BUILDING to be built on the comment on the proposed Hi-Lake Exchange. The Midtown Exchange We had a great turnout of 120-140 p.m. - 9 p.m. southeast corner of the Hi-Lake Triangle Apartments. HOURCAR hub is located in the people, probably the biggest turn- Bike, run, or blade via the Shopping Center. Proposed by Wellington parking ramp near the intersection out yet. Midtown Greenway. (If you can’t The Up-coming. Management, owners of Hi-Lake of Lake Street and 10th Avenue I am wondering what is contrib- bike, you can still register and CLEAN SWEEP on October Shopping Center and Corridor South, across 10th Avenue from the uting to the good turnouts this year? meet at any/all locations.) 13th when all of Phillips turns out Flats Apartments/Aldi Building Midtown Global Market. Sounds like Phillips West had a 4:00 - 5:30 Appetizers in to spiff up our neighborhood is to be built on the southeast corner This hub is home to a red Honda higher turnout as well. I know the Uptown always memorable. Starts at 8-9 of the Hi-Lake Shopping Center. Fit and its launch brings the number weather was really nice, so I’m sure 5:45 - 7:15 Main Course in am with free breakfast (Welna’s Comments must be in by noon of vehicles in the HOURCAR fleet that helped. Midtown (wood-fired pizza!) and Lutheran Social Services); on Monday, September 10, 2012. to 37. Big thanks to Midtown Phillips 7:30 - 9:00 Sweets in Seward lunch at noon at Stewart Park. Send to: One Minneapolis One Read Neighborhood Association for Reg.: $35 adults & teens; $18 Youth Clean Sweep T-Shirt Matthew Hendricks, Development City leaders are offering $250 in reimbursement for 6 - 12; free 5 and under. Reg: Design Contest; We give away Finance Analyst launching the the event. Because of this we were www.midtowngreenway.org or 400 T-Shirts; $25 prize for the best Minneapolis Finance & Property second year of able to get a bounce house which send a check. design. Contact Brad. Starts at 8-9 Services Department One Minneapolis the kids loved, a pinata and several Write name & guest’s name in am with free breakfast (Welna’s 105 5th Avenue South, Suite 200 One Read, a other things we wouldn’t have oth- “Additional Feedback” section.l. and Lutheran Social Services); Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401 citywide “read” erwise. And thanks also to Waite We’ll send directions to you of lunch at noon at Stewart Park. (612) 673-5236 where the entire House who gives us use of tables each host house. EPIC Community Garden matthew.hendricks@minneapolis- community is encouraged to read and chairs and donates food and Register via mail: Midtown Harvest Party, October 20th (eve- mn.gov the same book and join in a com- paper products as they are able. Greenway Coalition, 2834 10th ning); planning is beginning next PUBLIC HEARING -1:30 munity conversation. I was really pleased to see neigh- Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55407 Saturday. p.m. on Tuesday, September 11, The book is Spirit Car: Journey bors interacting well and lingering 2012 in Room 317 City Hall. to a Dakota Past, a book of vignettes even after the event was officially 3440 Bloomington Ave. The City Council is expected to by Diane Wilson created to honor over, and personally know of two Powderhorn park consider the Plans at its meeting the lives of her Dakota family. sets of neighbors connecting that minneapolis on Friday, September 21, 2012. One Read week will culmi- live on the same block that hadn’t m-f 6:30-6 This is important to us. We all nate in an evening with Garrison met or had a chance to talk much sat 7-5 • sun 7:30-5 shop there and there has been sig- Keillor and author Diane Wilson beforehand. One group of neigh- 729-5627 nificant crime at the station, which on September 24 at 7:00 p.m. at bors came that had moved onto the is right adjacent to the new build- the Minneapolis Convention Center block in the last year and so this Organic & ing. If you have design concerns Auditorium. Ticket info here. was a great chance for them to meet or others about this…Speak Up! other neighbors. Fair Trade Coffee For starters, many of us would like Thank you also to Don Greeley FREE Wireless Internet balconies facing the station, creat- and Robert Thompson for stopping ing ‘eyes-on-the- street’ as a crime by, a few policewomen on horses deterrent. We would also like exten- and several police via car as well, sive security camera surveliance as well as surrounding neighbors there for the same reason. Parking from other block parties. is also an unresolved issue. Maybe NNO has always been an you have some good ideas to put in encouraging night for me to see the mix. Here is your opportunity to so many people of different back- push for change to make a project better. NEWS on Lake Street By Joyce Wisdom and Holly Harrison HOURCAR Hub at Midtown Exchange

St. Paul’s Lutheran Ancient Traders Market St. Paul’s 125th Anniversary! 1113 E. Franklin Ave. Minneapolis Anniversary Banquet: October 27 6 pm 7AM to 3PM Mon. thru Sat. Anniversary Festival Worship: Nov. 4 2pm 8AM to 3PM Sun. 612.870.9842 2742 15th Ave South www.mariascafe.com Call 612-724-3862 for more info 6 Film & Stage The Alley Newspaper • September 2012 Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Open Eye Figure Theatre Presents A Hole Protection & The Dark Knight Rises A new work by Michael Sommers

HOLE invites the audience to ‘Go down the Rabbit Hole’ into a world of won- der, chaos, and discov- ery, where “nothing but out-of-the way things happen.” Be reassured - it has nothing to do with the real world. DRINK ME. EAT ME. Mysterious potables and delec- table tarts will be served to trans- Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection port the audience from in to out, up to down, small chamber to Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness garden party, never once consider- Protection (2012) ing how in the world they will get out again. Lionsgate Films, Comedy Show Schedule 9 Days Cast: Tyler Perry (Madea/ Saturday, September 22-30 8:00 Joel/Brian), Eugene Levy pm (George Neeedleman), Denise TICKETS: Tickets avail- Richards (Kate Needleman), able at www.openeyetheatre.org Doris Roberts (Barbara), Percy General $25 Students & Seniors Romeo Miller(Jake), Devan $20 Recommended for 16 and up. Leos (Howie). (PG-13) Running Howard McQuitter II Reservations Required. Limited time: 114 minutes. Director: Movie Corner to 30 people. For more infor- Tyler Perry. Howardsmoviecorner.com mation contact Susan Haas at Tyler Perry does it again: 612.226.0402. Madea (Tyler Perry) in wig, fat [email protected] suit and a dress at his usual antics now have cloyed. That doesn’t Dark Knight is at it for the tril- Open Eye Figure Theatre of unforgivable instinct, loss and Local Stipend Volunteer Position seem to bother Perry for he’s made ogy, this time Batman, a.k.a. Bruce presents A Hole, a new work consequence, recalling the “sim- Serve as a Senior Companion friendly his money off of a bad movie. Wayne,has retired from duty, even by Michael Sommers inspired ple sorrows of a Wonderland long visitor to those needing companion- Besides a few laughs, “Witness to the point of being a recluse, at by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in ago”. ship & errand assist, 55+, commit Protection” is cumbersome, non- the brown-stoned Wayne Manor. Wonderland. With strange objects, Sommers explores the unknown min 15hrs wk to earn stipend, driving sensical and half-hearted; putting He has taken the fall for Harvey abstract puppets, projections, and and the unknowable, wandering and working independently. an unenthusiastic red mark on Dent’s (Aaron Eckhart) death, the a madrigal choir, Sommers tells into thoughts and questions that Reimbursement for time & travel. Perry’s franchise. new district attorney determined to his story of a Grandfather, a little manifest in a miniature world Eugene Levy plays character catch as many big-time criminals girl and a rabbit in a moment from curiouser and curiouser. A Contact Cory 651.310.9447 George Needleman, big man of and then sending them to prison. a financial fund, that’s been run- Dent dies in the last movie “The (the third Batman moves from ning a Ponzi scheme which other Dark Knight”(2008) trying to col- Chicago [the real Gotham City] Waiting for Godot at the company bosses want to put all lar the mob, a perfect ending for to New York) ascends again to the blame in George’s lap. To the sequel. new heights, Commissioner Jim Jungle Theater avoid scandals and reprisals while While Bruce Wayne is out Gordan (Gary Oldman) is forced investigating the fraud, Brian of the public seeing only faith- again to clash with the criminals. August (Tyler Perry) convinces his Aunt ful Alfred (Michael Caine) at the The politics in “Rises” is more 24-September 30 Madea to take in the white family- stony manor until crafty, witty amorphous than in “The Dark By Samuel Beckett. -George, his wife Kate(Denise cat burglar/Catwoman/Selina Knight”, although both have a Directed by Bain Richards), son Jake (Percy Romeo Kyle (Anne Hathaway) invades Dickensian mood of class warfare Boehlke. Featuring Miller) and conceited daughter Bruce and Alfred’s castle upstages in “A Tale of Two Cities” symbolic Nathan Keepers and Cindy (Danielle Campbell) under Bruce’s recluse life. Caught in of Occupation Wall Street. Jim Lichtscheidl with witness protection. the act of stealing from the safe, Eight years later spans between Allen Hamilton and I’ve been inclined to cling she has the movie’s central warn- events in “The Dark Knight” and Charles Schuminski somewhat to some of Tyler Perry’s ings for Bruce. “There’s a storm “Rises”. In the former movie an Voted the most sig- movies for--if for no other rea- coming, Mr. Wayne,” Anne says, impeccable Dent goes bad getting nificant English lan- son--they epitomize ethnic/racial in a measured voice, “you and cut down before the movie’s end guage play of the 20th themes, but “Witness Protection” your friends better batten down sending Bruce Wayne into a hiatus century in a recent is probably his sloppiest work. I the hatches, ‘cause when it hits, of mea culpas. A tranquil city British Royal National hate to think Perry has hit bottom you’re gonna wonder how you upstaged (in “Rises”) by the villain Theatre poll of 800 with lousy movies; but he may ever thought you could live so Bane and his gang hide out in the playwrights, actors, poetic, the comic and the tragic… have hit bottom with “Witness large, and leave so little for the sewers of Gotham City gives rise directors and journalists. and a redefinition of what is pos- Protection”. rest of us.” to headaches for Batman, Gordan Two old friends talk, joke and sible in theatre. For more infor- Bane (Tom Hardy) becomes and a new young detective John argue as they wait for the mysteri- mation visit http://www.junglethe- The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Batman’s principal nemesis, Blake (Joseph Gordan-Levitt). ous Mr. Godot. A marriage of the ater.com/godot.html a man with a mouth guard that Nolan does continue to make Warner Bros. Action/Fantasy/ looks like a wrestler with the AWA his third “Batman” thrilling, dark Adventure/Drama (American Wrestling Association). and booming with intrigue at least Cast: Christian Bale (Bruce He’s not the jewel of an antagonist through much of the movie. Yet, Wayne/Batman), Tom Hardy as the late Heath Ledger’s “Joker”, “Rises” has some magnificent (Bane), Anne Hathaway (Selina but “Bane” is serviceable at least, scenes rising, then falling some- Kyle/Catwoman), Joseph if not pretty good. what, raw--less than the “Dark Gordan-Levitt (John Blake), Not that “The Dark Knight Knight” in total quality, but in Gary Oldman (Jim Gordan), Rises” is bovine--it isn’t--Anne Christopher Nolan’s last dance Marion Cotillard (Miranda Hathaway’s character though with “Batman”, well, he had a Tate), Morgan Freeman maintains a colorful personality good run with all three Batman (Lucius Fox), Nestor Carbonell engendering even a more energetic movies. (Mayor Anthony Garcia), Cillan and adventurous movie. But even Murphy (Dr. Jonathan Crane/ here, this third attempt by Nolan Scarcecrow), Liam Neeson (Ra’s on “Batman” is the weakest of Visit The Alley online! Al Ghul), Ben Mendelsohn the three movies. I again go back www.alleynews.org (Daggett), Michael Caine to Hathaway’s Catwoman --she Even hipper, you can (Alfred). (PG-13) Running really saves the movie from mere follow us on Twitter: time: 165 minutes. Director: perfunctory matter. @alleynewspaper Christopher Nolan. As the turmoil in Gotham City The Alley Newspaper • September 2012 Commentary 7

European Union combined. Midtown Phillips Future of Waite House Obama Family Tree But then… Thank you to everyone who and progress. Did everyone catch the article Obama-bashing remains quite came to our meeting to discuss a Waite House “Slavery in Obama Family Tree”? fashionable on the political “left”. new use for the property at 2529 Programming is now I found it fascinating that our I suggest, to the contrary, that a 13th Ave. S. It was great to get so at Phillips Community President’s African-American aspect Romney-Ryan victory would crystal- many different perspectives. The Center 2323 11th Ave. stems, certainly not from his Kenyan lize right-wing extremism and lay the building that was formerly occu- father, but very likely from his white groundwork for some future fascist pied by Waite House is such an mother whose ancestry traces back regime. Which is to say: With our important neighborhood asset, and First, verbal nearly four centuries to a slave named revolutionary socialist future in mind, I appreciate your input in helping John Punch. let us vote appropriately. to determine its future. Check Aikido…Then 911 Note: midtownphillips.org for update on When they sell on our cor- The designation “African- Who’s in your family? Site Use Committee Membership ner, I approach them and say, American” has traditionally referred “Hi, nice night. Are you looking to that nationality which was forged for someone?” They always say, from the very diverse peoples held in “uh, no”, to which I say (sound- bondage together. To the degree that Peter Molenaar ing relieved), “Oh I’m so glad. Obama is now conscious of his con- Raise Your Voice Sometimes people deal drugs on nection; his identity has become less this corner...not cool because we ambivalent. tured servants who fought not only have a lot of kids on the block. To continue… for national independence, but for We’re all super tight and look out “In 1640, Punch, then an inden- personal freedom. Do ponder this the for each other”. 100% of the time, tured servant, escaped from Virginia next time we cheer the fireworks at they leave. and went to Maryland. He was cap- Powderhorn Park. Incidentally, things are much tured there and, along with two white Side note: hotter on Portland in the 20’s servants who had also escaped, was There was a period in our history this year. Drugs and hookers, put on trial. His punishment – servi- when Marxists upheld the national gunshots, screaming, fights, and tude for life – was harsher than what potentiality of the Southern “Black drunks. 911 911 911 911 911. the white servants received, and it Belt”. Accordingly, the ‘right of self- Have you noticed that almost all has led some historians to regard determination’ (i.e. the right of sepa- of the arrests in our community him as the first African to be legally rate nationhood) applied. However, are people who don’t live here? sanctioned as a slave, years before the population dispersed from the Burns me up something fierce. Virginia adopted laws allowing slav- land. Hence, the path of African- Dallas Johnson ery.” This was the historic moment American liberation has become when the existing ruling class deter- inseparable from the struggle to end Phillips Clean Sweep mined to divide the exploited layer of all forms of exploitation and oppres- society along the race line. sion. “Don’t be discouraged by it being an October 13 Leap to 1777-1778… Meanwhile… auction instead of an election. Get By Donna Neste Some 12,000 honorable souls were The richest 0.001% of “us” have Residents of four Phillips assembled at Valley Forge under the as much as $32 trillion stashed in out and VOTE!” neighborhoods are encouraged leadership of General Washington. overseas bank accounts. In fact, $32 to participate in this communi- Make no mistake; this army was trillion would be enough to settle the – Bonnie Raitt, at Minnesota State Fair ty-building annual event. Meet composed largely of white inden- debts of the United States and the 2012 Opening Night Concert 9:00 a.m. Welna Hardware 24th & Bloomington or The Center for Changing Lives at 2400 Park Av. for coffee, juice and bagels. Bags, gloves and pick-up sticks given to participants who go to their blocks or problem areas and pick up trash. At noon come together and celebration with music and lunch in Steward Park. City trucks and employees are hired to help special clean up. HN Cty Sentence to Service also con- tributes, along with other groups like Banyan Community. MICAH’s Housing Advocacy Helps Everyone Help MICAH at October 14 Fund Raiser

By Donna Neste MICAH an inter-faith organiza- tion advocates for the homeless; focusing on state and local policy for low-income people to afford rental housing. MICAH worked behind the scenes with lawmakers toward Mpls’ housing fund increases and state adoption of $35 million bonding for affordable housing. MICAH constantly must seek funding. You can contribute and be entertained at their annual fund-raiser. For $30 you will be entertained with jazz, the spoken word, food and some inspiring words from Council member Gary Schiff. Sun. Oct. 14th, 1:30-3:00 p.m.; Capri Theater, 2027 ay Ave. N., Mpls. Order your tickets www. micah.org or Jodi -MICAH 651- 646-0612 8 Don’t Miss Dates 9, 11, 15, 22, 29 The Alley Newspaper • September 2012 Artists in Storefronts, Interact Native American Teens Honor Traditional Center, & Bridging Minneapolis Tobacco & Fight Commercial Tobacco Use Combine Talents Sept. 9 Sophia Sarenpa and 7 other and Div. of Indian Works have and funded by the American Indian Native American Mashkiki adopted new policies banning the Community Tobacco Initiative and Ogichidaag (Ojibwe for “Medicine use of commercial tobacco use on a Tobacco-Free Communities Grant Warriors”) teens, worked all sum- their property and have also revised from the Minnesota Department mer on anti-commercial tobacco their policies. of Health, Tobacco Prevention and smoking public service announce- The teens understand that prog- Control Program. ments (PSAs). The teens brain- ress is incremental. But with the stormed concepts, developed program goal of building capac- scripts, conducted interviews, ity in American Indian youth as handled the lighting and cameras traditional tobacco use and policy – and premiered their new works change advocates and protectors of August 25th at the Division of Native medicines for future genera- Indian Work’s Dakota Lodge, 1001 tions, they are making great strides. E. Lake St., Minneapolis. Mashkiki Ogichidaag videos: “I’ve learned so much about YouTube or ordered on DVD 612- the difference between traditional 279-6355 or jlittlewolf@diw-mn. and commercial tobacco use,” said org Sophia. “Like how something so Mashkiki Ogichidaag is a pro- sacred has caused so many of our gram of the Division of Indian Work, people to die. I’ve come to care Join us Sunday, Sept 9, 2012, In addition to art, design, about the issue a lot.” from 3-6pm for an art-inspired dance and the music of Katie Tiana LaPointe, a Native film community event, beginning on Larkin, Rob Stealcheat, Siama artist project mentor says, “They the Whittier side of the 24th Street Matuzungidi, Dallas Johnson really took on the leadership for Bridge and ending on the Phillips and Chico Harris (among others), the project. They worked in front West side. the Bridging Festival promises a and behind the camera, and were in The Sunday afternoon special appearance by Blue Lady, charge of their own shoots.” “Bridging Festival” closes out the a parade, face painting, a puppet Armando Rivera loved learning second run of the Whittier Artists show, a neighborhood skit and about filmmaking, and discovered in Storefronts project, which turns hands-on activities such as turning a lot about the original, gifted and vacant or underused storefronts a chain-link fence into a canvas sacred tobacco of Native nations. along the Eat Street corridor into for personalized wishes in color- • PSA #1: Mashkiki Ogichidaag ongoing artist exhibition spaces. ful fabrics. Simple refreshments mission focus; promote com- “The community response to will be served. munity awareness and sup- Whittier Artists in Storefronts has We hope you’ll join us for this port for adoption of commer- been tremendous,” says organizer unique, free, community-led cial tobacco-free policies with Joan Vorderbruggen. “This festi- event. Fun costumes are encour- American Indian worksites in val is our way of taking that idea aged. Bring the kids and bring the the Twin Cities. of community engagement and kid in you. • PSA #2: features statistics bringing it to our neighbors to the For more information, check and facts about the dangers of Looking for Affordable west. I love that we can do it via out artistsinstorefronts.com or second-hand smoke in Native this bridge, using it as a metaphor bridgingminneapolis.com communities. Health Care Coverage? for art connecting us all.” This is Phase Two of an initia- Portico Healthnet Can Help! Inspired by Dallas Johnson’s Open the Door to tive for cultural values and tradi- Bridging Minneapolis Project, tional strengths to help the Native which hosted the first annu- Education youth become policy change advo- Thanks to support from the Allina Backyard Initiative, al “Bridging Festival” last Help adults reach their ed. cates. They produced four vid- Portico Healthnet can: year, installed six murals near goals & earn GED. Tutor, teach eos for community presentations, · Help you apply for Medical Assistance or the bridge and hosts monthly or assist in a classroom with the YouTube, and created an online MinnesotaCare “Bridge Shenanigans”, this year’s MN Literacy Council. 2-3 hours petition at http://www.ipetitions. · Enroll you in Portico’s Primary “Bridging Festival” will fea- per week would help people com/petition/please-help-support- and Preventive Health Care ture textile panels from Interact expand their opportunities us-to-go-commercial-tobacco/ to Program if eligible Center’s “Palace of Wonder,” and change lives through edu- make it easier for people to show an interactive, collaborative art cation. The MN Lit C provides support for their anti-commercial Call us at 651-489-CARE training and support. Contact: “world” that garnered commu- tobacco stand. for more information nity and critical acclaim when it [email protected], All Nations Indian Church, appeared outside the Minneapolis call Allison- 651-251-9110,t Native American Community Institute of Art during the Northern www.mnliteracy.org/volun- Clinic, Migizi Communications, Spark festival. teers/opportunities/adults Indigenous People’s Task Force, “ALLEY-OOP”* *An alley-oop in basketball is when one player throws the ball near the basket to a teammate who jumps, catches the ball in mid air and immediately scores a basket, usually with a slam dunk. The term “alley- oop” is derived from the French term allez hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. The ALLEY-OOP November 16th will be “over the top” and a “slam dunk” evening of “pin- point passing” from one neighborhood entertainer to another showcasing tal- ent and teamwork on stage with a winning half-time speaker. FOOD AND FUN! SAVE THE DATE! Friday, November 16th 6:30 – 9:00 PM