Minnesota Mayhem Cookbooks A fern began to unfurl

A fern began to unfurl its fiddlehead in early spring in northwest Minnesota

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A giant emperor butterfly lights on a flower at Como Park Zoo's "Blooming Butterfly" exhibit

Minnesota Mayhem Cookbooks A fern began to unfurlTurn back the yellowing pages of Minnesota's past and explore the best of the state's worst moments, as chronicled in the Minneapolis Tribune and its successor newspapers. These stories and photos, culled from the Star Tribune's microfilm archive by author Ben Welter, range from the catastrophic to the merely curious. From a fire that destroyed the State Capitol in 1881, to a wordless fistfight that broke out on a Minneapolis street in 1898, a flu