Landmark Literati: Saints and Sinners – The Pioneers of Saint Paul

Landmark Literati will welcome local author Gary Brueggemann on Wednesday, April 8th for a discussion on history and curiosity. He will speak on his recently published book, Saints and Sinners: The Pioneers of Saint Paul at 12pm at Landmark Center. Bring a lunch, or get one from Jenni’s café on the first floor of Landmark Center!

“Two hundred years ago the site of Saint Paul was a remote wilderness inhabited by a band of hunters and gatherers from the Mdewakaton Dakota tribe, whose bark lodges stood on the shores of a backwater lake, three miles below the distinctive white sandstone bluffs marking one of the Upper Mississippi’s great picturesque river bends. How exactly did that piece of wilderness transform into the village of emergence of that village in the early 1840s? The story of the founding of Saint Paul is not a simple one. This book reveals the fascinating saga of a developing pioneer America and of the intricate beginnings of a place called Minnesota.”

Author of Minnesota’s Oldest Murder Mystery: The Case of Edward Phalen St. Paul’s Unsaintly Pioneer will share how the research into that book left tendrils of curiosity that prompted a 10 year journey of research and discovery that opened more doors to getting a better picture of what life was like for those early pioneers, both well known, and lesser known and how they all came together to pave the path into what St. Paul is today.

This event is free and open to the public