Lecture

• A Woman's Work Was Never Done: Women's Occupations 1860 - 1920
  Dakota County Historical Society   MapIt!
  130 3rd Avenue North South St. Paul 612/451-6260
  The Society's volunteers and staff have researched oral history tapes, newspaper accounts, genealogies, published histories, and artifacts to help paint a picture of women whose occupations ranged from photographer to ornamental hair artist, boarding
  
• Bush Artist Fellowship Informational Meetings
  Intermedia Arts   MapIt!
  2822 Lyndale Ave. S Minneapolis /871-4444
  Julie Dalgleish of the Bush Foundation will present information and guidelines for the 1999 Bush Artist Fellowships in Literature, including fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry; Scriptwork, including playwrighting and screen writing; Music Comp
  
• Crime and Safety Luncheon Discussion
  Metrodome Plaza   MapIt!
  4th and Chicago Minneapolis
  Attend the BBQ luncheon and find out how Hennepin County Attorney candidates Amy Kobuchar and Sheryl Ramstad Hvass plan to make Minneapolis and Hennepin County a safer place. The event will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sept. 24. RSVP by Sept. 21
  
• Failure is Impossible: Women Win the Vote
  Minnesota History Center   MapIt!
  345 Kellogg Blvd. W St. Paul 612/296-6126
  The History Center exhbit celebrates the adoption of the suffrage amendment ot the U.S. Constitution on Aug. 20, 1920 with this exhibit of replica banners, photographs, newspaper clippings, and graphics on 14 framed panels. The name of the exhibit i
  
• M. Butterfly
  Theatre in the Round   MapIt!
  245 Cedar Ave. Minneapolis 612/333-3010
  David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly is based on the astonishing, true story of a French diplomat in Beijing who had a 20 year affair with a delicate Chinese opera singer and then discovered that his lover was a Communist spy - and a man. The provocative
  
• Parenting Successful Daughters
  Hamline Branch Library   MapIt!
  1558 W. Minnehaha Ave. St. Paul
  A growing body of research shows that an alarming number of girls in our society are underachievers. Edina Family Center and Working Parent Resource Center's Patty Carney-Bradley offers concrete, sympathetic advice on how a parent's behavior can make
  
• President and Mrs. Hayes and the State Fair
  Alexander Ramsey House   MapIt!
  265 S. Exchange St. St. Paul 612/296-0100
  The Minnesota State Fair was an important occasion even in the 1870s, so the Alexander Ramsey family gave its staff a day off to enjoy the event. In the late 1870s, however, Mrs. Ramsey was caught short-handed when her servants were enjoying the fai
  
• Prose Poem Workshop
  Borders (Minnetonka)   MapIt!
  1501 S. Plymouth Rd. Minnetonka /595-0977
  Loft instructor Kate Dayton will lead this writers' workshop on the prose poem.