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In the Midst

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AKERLUND STUDIO SURVIVES

6/19/2020

 
Article by Irene Bender from the Cokato Historical Society's newsletter In the Midst Of,  Summer, 1992, Vol. 12 No. 3. 
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June 16 seemed to be a normal day at the Cokato Museum at four thirty. The alarm was set. That evening a storm moved through Meeker County where I live; my husband and I went to the basement for about ten minutes. After the strong wind and some hail, we went back to bed. The phone rang about one o'clock. City Clerk Peggy Carlson said some windows were
broken in the museum. My first thought was the skylight in the Akerlund Studio. She said it was not broken.

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“COLORED GIANT FOR COKATO”

6/4/2020

 
Article by Mike Worcester from the Cokato Historical Society's newsletter In the Midst Of, May, 2015, Vol. 35 No. 2. 
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The Cokato west side ball field, summer 1914.
It is understandable how a modern audience might be taken aback a bit by title of this article.  Please realize though it is not us writing.  Notice the quotation marks?  This title comes from the headline of a May 13, 1915, Cokato Enterprise article.

​The “giant” being referenced is Bobby (Bob) Marshall, who by the time he arrived in Cokato was a legend in the Minnesota sports community, going back to his days as a student at Minneapolis Central High School. 

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