Newspaper Clipping - Newspaper Clipping Scan - Eagan historians are looking for your stories - 7/12/1982
Eagan historians are
looking for your stories
Most residents didn't live here before We want to know what it was like to
the days of housing developments and study in school, buy groceries, plant
shopping centers; they don't realize crops, navigate the roads, cook for a
what a small slice of Eagan's past they family, build a barn, celebrate
know. They don't know that Eagan has Christmas, fight a war, visit neighbors,
mourn a death, have a picnic, get rrtar-
Lisa Fleming ried, weather a winter in Eagan. They
may be familiar experiences, but no one
remembers them just the way you do.
existed officially for over 120 years, and If you've got a story of your own or
unofficially quite a few more. one that was told to you that's worth
The City of Eagan plans to publish a keeping-make sure it's kept. Tell your
city history this year. The History Com- kids, grandchildren, a tape recorder. If
mittee has been gathering information; you don't share it, it lives only as long as
we've stockpiled quite a bit, but there's you don't forget it.
much more we could have. The community history is a way to
In addition to black-and-white facts, make your recollections live for
we want more folk history. Not only the everyone. Call me (Eagan City Hall;
important dates and monuments but 454-8100) or write me (3795 Pilot Knob
the history of folk-every day people. Road). On behalf of the other children
Books and records can last for hun- of the suburbs, I'd like to hear from
dreds of years, but people and their you.
ways of life are perishable.