Eden Prairie woman’s new book documents her father’s life and delves into the early days of India’s independence.

By Leah Shaffer

Back in the mid-1990s, Rajshree Puri was watching a PBS documentary on the life of Jacqueline Kennedy when she saw some startling footage. The footage showed Kennedy walking down the steps of an airplane for a trip to India, being greeted by Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister and then she thought, “There’s my dad.”

By Unsie Zuege

A Carver County woman is hoping her land will be recognized as an important archeological site and that it will be preserved under the permanent protection of the Archeological Conservancy. If her property is so designated, the conservancy could purchase the title to her land, allowing her to continue living on it, and create a perpetual archeological preserve.

Eden Prairie resident honors ‘Remains of Company D’

By Karla Wennerstrom

After James Carl Nelson’s grandfather died in 1993 at age 101, he began to pursue his story.

He inherited his dog tags. He found some photos. “He had this full, wide grin,” Nelson said. It was the man he had always remembered as an old-school tough Swede. He had his memory of the story of his grandfather being wounded in battle. Then he got a muster roll of names in his grandfather’s regiment in WWI.

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Recipes, cookbooks provide window to past

By Mollee Francisco

Recipes – they were one of the few things immigrants could carry from the old world to the new world with ease. Tastes from home sustained those that tried to forge a new life in the wilds of Minnesota.

The Eden Prairie History Center, located on the lower level of Eden Prairie City Center, 8080 Mitchell Road, is scheduled to be open from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mondays this winter. It will be closed on the weeks of Christmas and New Year’s Day.

The Eden Prairie Historical Society is seeking items for the museum, including: a four-drawer file cabinet, old-fashioned nursing caps and old mannequins to display vintage clothing. Donations to the History Center are tax-deductible.

Editor's note: We are reposting this story about Helen Holden Anderson. Anderson died last week at age 98. Her memorial service is set for Saturday. The story was first printed in the Eden Prairie News' Sesquicentennial special section last year.

‘The First 100 Years’ enjoys reissue to celebrate city’s 150 years

By Renee Stewart

“Sit in the rocking chair,” Helen urged.

By Marie Wittenberg

In the late 1950s, two New Hope families found the perfect place to start a business – Eden Prairie. At that time Eden Prairie was known mostly for its fertile farm land, good fishing lakes and great pheasant and deer hunting fields. Prior to the development of the Eden Prairie shopping center district, business partners Anton Westerhaus and Vern Morgan purchased a 27-acre piece of property along U.S. Highway 169.

"You have to have an open mind. When you look at history, it might not be so cut and dried."
– Maria Awes
'Holy Grail in America' producer and writer

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By Mollee Francisco

A mysterious runestone, a persecuted society and one of the holiest relics in all of Christianity – what do these things have in common and what do they have to do with the discovery of the New World?