Concordia College

Minnesota Sesquicentennial Lecture

Sep 02, 2008
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
REBECCA AMUNDSEN, assistant to the Dean, Academic Affairs
(218) 299-3001
AMY KELLY, Media Relations director
(218) 299-3642


MINNESOTA SESQUICENTENNIAL LECTURE AT CONCORDIA


    Carroll Engelhardt, Concordia College professor of history emeritus and author of “Gateway to the Northern Plains,” will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11 in Birkeland Alumni Lounge on the Moorhead, Minn., campus.  His lecture, “Railroads and the Birth of Fargo and Moorhead,” commemorates the sesquicentennial of Minnesota statehood.     
    Through a power point presentation of historic photographs, Engelhardt will discuss the story of Fargo/Moorhead’s birth with the coming of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1871 and show how the Northern Pacific and other railroads shaped the dual city economically, socially, and politically during the next three decades. 
    The lecture is the first of the Minnesota Sesquicentennial Lecture Series at Concordia. It is free and open to the public.

-30-

(kk)
08-130