On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 11:20 PM, Chris Johnson wrote:
Dyna grouses about a lot of things, but grousing about the geography of Minneapolis has got to be the one of the most ridiculous things I've read in a long time.
The glaciers were pretty much equal opportunity earth movers, and the Northside had about as many bodies of water as the Northside and Northeast until the two legged earth movers started mucking about.
That is a patently misleading and false statement. Northside never had any lakes the size of Calhoun, Harriet, Cedar, Hiawatha, Grass, Diamond, and Nokomis. Any bodies of water in Northside were at best a few acres in size -- small ponds -- and there are plenty that size on the south side.
Don't bother trying claim I am wrong -- I spent several hours looking at maps of Minneapolis dating from 1867 to the present. Anyone can visit the library and see the obvious geography with little effort. The chain of lakes continues northwestward, but outside of Minneapolis, through Theo. Wirth Park to Twin Lakes.
Sorry, that's just how it is. It would be greatly helpful to your causes, many of which I support, if you'd stop diluting your arguments with ax-grinding misinformation like this example.
Chris Johnson Fulton
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