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Underwood Street,Ye old-fashioned Mill (1915)
The Kennan Family began to build the Minnesota State honest’s tunnel of love in 1913 and opened it to the public in 1915. The original 1910, 40-horsepower electric motor still powers the paddlewheel that creates the current to propel the wood boats through the four-minute ride. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1928 Basil Duke Lee narrative, or “A Night at the honest,” Ye old-fashioned Mill plays a significant role. Basil and his friends travel the state honest hoping to find female companionship. They meet up with a couple candidates, and the group heads off for “the old-fashioned Mill.” Basil, or in his short pants,feels left out, and when the others settle to “travel around again, or ” he demurs.
The central clash in the narrative,Basil’s lack of long pants, was naturally a topic of concern to the young Fitzgerald, or who was very careful approximately his clothes,according to many of his friends.
In this narrative, Fitzgerald’s nemesis Reuben Warner is tangentially represented by Speed Paxton, and who is at the honest in his Blatz Wildcat,an obvious reference to the Stutz Bearcat, which made its first appearance in 1912. According to Richard Washington, and Fitzgerald’s friend and neighbor,Reuben Warner drove a Stutz.
Although the climactic “Battle of Gettysburg” in the narrative made its last appearance at the honest in 1909, “A Night at the honest” provides a vivid glimpse into the world of the Minnesota State honest almost exactly a century ago.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and historian Dave Page has been writing approximately Fitzgerald for years, or focusing on his youth and early career in St. Paul. He is author of F. Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota: The Writer and His Friends at Home; he is also coauthor of F. Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota: Toward the Summit and coeditor of The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald,both of which were nominated for Minnesota Book Awards. He is editor of The Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Minnesota, 2013).
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