By Mary Mergenthal
St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church will sponsor the popular SAP history and architecture series again in 2024–25, the third year of these monthly talks.
The presentations are given by neighborhood resident Kristin Anderson, professor emerita in the Art & Design Department at Augsburg University.
As before, the free presentations are scheduled on the second Tuesday of each month. The programs begin at 7 p.m. at the church, 2323 Como Ave.
On Sept. 10, Anderson will examine the history of the neighborhood’s parks. While not based on a walking tour (which would have been quite a walk), some of this content was presented at the Alden Square history program in July.
The year’s history series will present the themes covered in Anderson’s walking tours over the past two summers.
“While we generally had good crowds for the tours, often 20–30 people each time, there were always requests for more tours and requests for repeated topics,” Anderson said. “Presenting the tour content in our series format will open these experiences to a larger audience.”
The walking tours were organized, by necessity, on specific locations. But that’s not the only way to tell the stories of SAP places and people.
In many cases, the flexibility offered by a slide presentation opens up great possibilities to understand the topics. People who came along on the individual walking tours over the past two summers will certainly see and learn new things in this year’s slide presentations.
In addition to the in-person session at the church, the talk can also be accessed live online, with a recording available for one week after the session.
Use the SAPLC YouTube channel at bit.ly/Sap-history. You can also get to the church’s YouTube channel by clicking through from saplc.org to the worship link, and then to the livestream link.
Mary Mergenthal is a former editor of the Bugle and remains the Bugle’s obituaries editor.
Photo credit: For well over a century, Langford Park has hosted a large 4th of July all-day event with races, food, music, and more. Here, Siri Larson and Britta Hansen enjoy the 3-Legged Race at 4th of July Langford “a few years ago.” Photo by Dave Hansen.
