03/25/2026
I had to go into downtown Minneapolis yesterday to apply for a permit and I had never been in the government center and I was blown away by the architecture, the old school stone work and the stained glass! I overheard a tour guide saying that there are 72,000 individual pieces of stained glass and at one point they sent all of the stained glass down to Iowa, where they fixed all the cracked and broken pieces and restored the rest. Also, I had never heard of the Mississippi River referred to as “Father of Waters”, which comes from an Ojibwe phrase Misi-ziibi, meaning “Big River”.