Finding Rondo Saint Paul

Published by KMK Publishing, St. Paul, 2024

ISBN 13: 9798218400712

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7.5 X 10.5 inches, 24 pages. Saddle-stitched paperback. Unmarked, near Fine condition. Historian Richard L. Kronick and artist Jeanne Kosfeld have created a unique book featuring histories of twenty-one people who, despite ubiquitous racism, lived and thrived in Rondo, Saint Paul s segregated African American neighborhood. Kosfeld s beautiful ink drawings show each person or group along with their home, school, church, or other place significant to their lives. People aged 3-100 may color Kosfeld s beautiful drawings while reading Kronick s short histories of these inspiring Rondo residents. From Richard L. Kronick s Introduction: The construction of Interstate Highway 94 beginning in the late 1950s [cut] Rondo in half lengthwise, east-to-west. Every one of the hundreds of homes, offices, grocery stores, barber shops, drug stores, churches, bars, pool halls, and so much more on the north side of Rondo Avenue and the south side of St. Anthony Avenue physically about 1/8 of Rondo were demolished. Most people more than 85% by one estimate actually improved their living situations when houses that couldn t be sold on the market were bought by the government. But the freeway tore the heart out of Rondo. Rondo Avenue had been the neighborhood s vibrant main shopping street where everyone crossed paths every day an essential part of what makes a community. But of the dozens of commercial establishments that once thrived up and down Rondo Avenue, none have survived freeway construction. [housed in shelfX].…

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Title
Finding Rondo Saint Paul
Author
Richard L. Kronick and artist Jeanne Kosfeld
Publisher
KMK Publishing, St. Paul
Publication year
2024
Condition
Near Fine
Binding
Soft cover
Edition
1st Edition
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