Retention List Stories

Story Twenty-Nine: Local History, but Across the River

Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. Here is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.

Local history on the retention list includes books about communities adjacent to Winona, but in Wisconsin: one from Arcadia and one from Fountain City.

Bryan, Brad. Arcadians Each and All: “From Newspaper Archives.” Pathagorous Press, 2005.

Johnson, Dwight A. Fountain City May Have Talkie Shows: The Story of a Small Town and Its Weekly Newspaper. Arlan Communications, 1994.