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Pedestrian tunnels
Top: Lexington Avenue just north of Energy Park Drive and the Bluff Street trail at 35W. Bottom: the Samuel H Morgan Trail crossing at 35E and the Gateway trail at Maryland Avenue

Every Tunnel Tells a Story: the Underground Passageways of Saint Paul and Minneapolis

• April 29, 2020

Here’s a question: Why does Saint Paul have so many more tunnels than Minneapolis? Because we keep Saint Paul boring! Indeed, Saint Paul’s geography has featured the subterranean since the very beginning when Pierre “Pig’s Eye” Parrant staked his claim at Fountain Cave. And although Saint Paul was well positioned at the northernmost navigable point […]

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The Anthropomorphism of St. Paul’s Bollards

• September 28, 2017

Chuck Noland was marooned on a remote island. Accompanied by packages and a few dead bodies, he somehow survived. But he didn’t do so alone – he had the company of Wilson, a washed-up volleyball who stayed with him through thick and thin, until finally drifting away in the middle of the ocean, leaving the […]