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Bette Nash, the world’s longest-serving flight attendant, dies at 88

Bette Nash, the world’s longest-serving flight attendant, dies at 88

She began her career with now-defunct Eastern Airlines at age 21 in 1957, when Dwight Eisenhower was president, flights between New York and D.C. cost $12 and “stewardesses,” as they were called, served lobster on platters and passed out cigarettes on board.
by NPR Staff

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New boarding school database helps Native families find ancestors

New boarding school database helps Native families find ancestors

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition launches an ever-growing public archive that includes listings of students who attended boarding schools.

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High on an Austrian mountain, a Minnesotan finds pieces of his family’s past in a WWII bomber wreck

High on an Austrian mountain, a Minnesotan finds pieces of his family’s past in a WWII bomber wreck

Conversations with his mom led MPR News photojournalist Ben Hovland to the family story of Richard Rossman, a mischievous Minneapolis kid who learned to fly, and a journey to Austria to see where he died piloting the Powder Ann on a freezing December night in 1943.
by Ben Hovland

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Famed plane ‘Marge’ of ace pilot Richard Bong found in South Pacific

Famed plane ‘Marge’ of ace pilot Richard Bong found in South Pacific

A team has discovered the wreckage of “Marge,” one of the most famous airplanes in U.S. military history, flown by ace pilot and Superior resident Richard Bong, 80 years after it crashed.
by Dan Kraker

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New small business program looks to revitalize Selby Avenue corridor in Rondo neighborhood

New small business program looks to revitalize Selby Avenue corridor in Rondo neighborhood

A new effort is underway to support emerging entrepreneurs in the Rondo neighborhood of St. Paul. It’s part of a larger vision to revitalize the historic economic and cultural center that was fractured by the construction of I-94 decades ago.
by Tom Crann, Josh Cobb and Ngoc Bui

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Lee Hawkins: Tips and advice from his search through family history

Lee Hawkins: Tips and advice from his search through family history

Veteran reporter Lee Hawkins, Jr., and host of a new APM Studios podcast “What Happened in Alabama?” shares insights into exploring his family history as part of his podcast and upcoming book, “Nobody’s Slave.”
by Lee Hawkins

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Here's this year's list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.

Here's this year's list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.

The National Trust's annual list includes Eatonville, the all-Black Florida town memorialized by Zora Neale Hurston, Alaska's Sitka Tlingit Clan houses, and the home of country singer Cindy Walker.
by Neda Ulaby

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