After the conference, I did a bit of sightseeing. My first stop was Historic Fort Snelling.
Fort Snelling was closed. The Internet said it was open, but it was closed. A lot of other people thought it was open, but it was closed. There was no explanation. It was just closed.
But I walked around a bit and took a few photos. It wasn’t very satisfying. Because it was closed.
This statue of Target’s mascot sits outside Target Field, where the Minnesota Twins play.
The MLB All-Star Game was held at Target Field this year. Ten statues of Peanuts characters in Twins uniforms were displayed in St. Paul, where creator Charles M. Schulz was born and then moved here. I would have taken more photos, but this side of the park is apparently a hangout for homeless folk.
Kirby Puckett
I walked from the river to Target Field through downtown Minneapolis with no map.
Now an office building, the Ceresota Building was once the Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company Elevator A. It was built in 1908 and is the largest grain elevator ever built of brick (whatever that does for you).
My random path took me past this sculpture, titled “Inner Search” on the corner of 3rd Street and Second Avenue. The “eye” was supposedly inspired by the eye on the one dollar bill.
A bunch of cement balls lined the mirrored walls on the other side of the building.
The web site Start Seeing Art has this to say about “Family.”
“Family” features a mother, father and two children, barefoot and apparently wandering and about to reach the end of their journey. It feels like there’s some sort of context missing, like we should know more about who they are or where they’re going or where they’re coming from. But it’s just not there.
Which is an obvious attempt to say something when there was nothing to be said.
On my stroll from the river to Target Field, I happened upon this odd mural on the side of the Rosenthal Furniture store.
On Friday, we didn’t have to be in the booth until 10:00. My coworkers and I got up before dawn and walked the mile or so to the Mississippi River, arriving just as the sun did.
We walked across the Mississippi River on the Stone Arch Bridge. We only went about 30 feet on the other side.
The skyline of Minneapolis as seen from across the river, down the length of the Stone Arch Bridge over the Mississippi.
Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River as seen from the Stone Arch Bridge. Downtown Minneapolis is on the left, Hennepin Island on the right.
The towboat Michael G. pushes barges under the Stone Arch Bridge and into the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam on the Mississippi River.
I wandered about Mill Ruins Park, an interesting spot featuring the remains of old flour mills on the Mississippi River.
