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Y urs These events are not included in the annual meeting registration fee and require preregistration.See the registration form for details. Museum housed in the ruins of one of 19th-century communications with a the largest flour mills in the world. Next, working telegraph station,and listen to • visit the Hennepin History Museum and the Northwestern National Bank Weath- the Museum in the Streets,a heritage erball jingle. walking tour of Lake Street,which figures prominently in the history of Minneapolis. Downtown Low-Down Pub Crawl --- Finally,the tour will visit the world's only 7-9 pm ` Somali Artifact and Cultural Museum for a taste of the world cultures who call COST:$25 > i �"� Discover how Gilded Age robber barons, Minnesota home. g / ! intrepid entrepreneurs,crime bosses, vaudeville impresarios,and influential T rrget Field St. Paul's Summit Avenue politicians transformed a down-and-dirty 1-4:30 pm river port into the gleaming power center WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 COST:$45 of St. Paul. Note:The tour does not St. Paul is home to the country's best include the cost of food or beverages. preserved Victorian residential boulevard. Ojibwe and Dakota Indians in This tour will include a walking tour of Northern Minnesota Summit Avenue as well as a behind-the- 8 am-5 pm scenes tour of the James J. Hill House,a COST$75 36,500-square-foot Gilded Age mansion. The tour will conclude with refreshments The history of north central Minnesota is on the terrace of the Hill House. rich and deep with the area first inhab- j ited by the Dakota people,and then by the Ojibwe.Start your day at Mille Lacs J.Kathio State Park,the site of ongoing �" '' �' archaeology studies and interpretive trails 4 exploring thousands of years of human 4 - • - , habitation.Then travel to the Mille Lacs Union Depot Indian Museum and Trading Post and learn the story of the Mille Lacs Band of r Ojibwe. Finally,end your day with a stop r '. 4 at the historic trading post where you can �1 , THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 take home hand-made Indian items from , t. the band and around the country. . t tt Walking Tour: St. Paul's Lowertown Museums of Minneapolis COS T:COT:$ am $15 8:30 am-5 pm Strap on your walking shoes and explore COST:$75 St. Paul's Summit Avenue Tour the site of the first port on the Upper Minneapolis is home to many unique Mississippi and hub for St. Paul rail- museums and this tour provides a road. Many of the buildings, including sampling of those museums. Begin Corporate History Tour Union Depot,designed for the railroads your day at the baseball museum at 1-5 pm by prominent architects such as Cass Target Field,the home of the Minne- COST:$45 Gilbert, have been repurposed as artist sota Twins,then explore the Mill City Join the Corporate History and Archives studios, restaurants,and even transpor- Affinity Group for a tour of the General tation venues. ,go Mills Archives and the Wells Fargo History Museum.The General Mills Walking Tour: Historic Downtown St. y A, Archives began in 1988 when the ~ ' { ' company collected artifacts to celebrate Paul t P the 100th anniversary of Gold Medal 12-1:30 pm • ,oa ti- Flour and now contains over 3,000 COST:$15 = rr • square feet of company history.At the Former AASLH board member David Grabitske will take people outside the t Wells Fargo History Museum,explore a P p '` turn-of-the-century bank,discover fron- doors of the hotel to explore the neigh- ,` tier transportation including a restored borhood,showing off nice examples of ''rr ' 1863 Concord stagecoach,experience historic preservation as well as evidence Somali Artifact and Cultural Museum of previous urban planning gone awry.