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• 1998 Payne Arcade Harvest Festival
  Payne-Arcade Area
  
  Events include live music, ethnic dancing, a motorcycle display, a petting zoo and pony rides, magicians, kids rides, art activities, and parades. The Grand Parade begins at 7 p.m. on Th at Payne Ave. and Rose St. and runs to Minnehaha Ave. Call 77
  
• 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
  
• City Pages Beer Festival
  Calhoun Square Gallery   MapIt!
  3001 Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis 612/824-1240
  Porters, stouts, pilsners, and ales from Minnesota and across the country will be featured at the City Pages Beer Festival. All beer samples are included in the price of admission. Must be age 21 to participate in the event. The event runs from 5:30
  
• Crepuscule V Instrument Inventing Workshop
  Powderhorn Park Community Center   MapIt!
  3400 15th Avenue South Minneapolis
  Crepuscule is an interactive performance with music, dance, spoken word, martial arts, performance art, and invented musical instruments held in Powderhorn Park. Instruments created in the workshops from everyday items, such as crutches, paddle oars
  
• 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
  
• Historic Cave Tour
  Wabasha Street Caves   MapIt!
  215 Wabasha St. St. Paul 612/224-8319
  The tour covers much of the fascinating history of The Wabasha Street Caves including geology, silica mining, mushroom farming, the speak easy, and the historic nightclub The Castle Royal. The Castle Royal was regularly used by the St. Paul underwor
  
• Parade of Homes Fall Showcase
  Twin Cities Metropolitan Area
  Home Tour Guide Minneapolis / -
  The Parade of Homes Fall Showcase displays 711 model homes, located throughout the Twin Cities metro area. Featured this year is Midwest Living Magazine's Idea Home. The over 6000 square foot home in Mahtomedi represents the best of Midwest buildin
  
• 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
  
• Summit Avenue Walking Tours
  James J. Hill House   MapIt!
  240 Summit Ave. St. Paul 612/296-9396
  Business and civic leaders during St. Paul's Gilded Age built fashionable mansions along Summit Avenue. Learn about the architecture, development, and social history of the neighborhood, presented in the context of an elite avenue with connections a