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Photo Diary: Minnehaha Falls

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by A Citizen

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Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021 Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021 at 8:05:08pm PDT

I wanted to take my mind off of things for a bit, so I went out for a visit to Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis. My wife had fish tacos at Sea Salt. It started to rain, which we really needed.

LBJ’s footprints. He visited the falls, but the falls were dry. So the city opened fire hydrants upstream so that he could see the falls.

Statue of Hiawatha and Minnehaha from Longfellow’s poem “The Song of Hiawatha”

Minnehaha Creek, beneath the falls

PXL_20210827_000151752.MP.jpg — The falls from above

PXL_20210827_002844906.MP.jpg — Usually a long line at Sea Salt, the seafood restaurant at the park. No line today because it looked like rain.

PXL_20210827_002525476.MP.jpg — The steps down to the falls were a WPA project and have lasted for 80 years.