Anyone have the book "The Street Where You Live: A Guide to the Place Names of St. Paul"?Gives you a bit of history of who these streets were named after. It might help. https://books.google.com/books?id=2TJIulWZTkUC&pg=PA190&dq=Johnson+parkway+namesake+st+paul+mn&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjv5rfe9pjnAhUJac0KHYY6Br8Q6AEwAXoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=Johnson%20parkway%20namesake%20st%20paul%20mn&f=false
I can honestly fit all the clues into any park at this time. I'm thinking a park near 2 "famous" doctors. Where they lived, maybe where they worked. And by famous, I mean we have to do our research to find them. Not the Mayo family.
Mike summarized my morning noodling quite well there. Some additional thoughts... "HERRING"bone - they seem to be telling us they are giving two options, one of which is bad for us. Are there any other types of "cutters"? Stone cutters, like those who built the capitol...there's some interesting history about two guys who worked on the capitol and had a freak accident. One survived (salvaged life and limb). Cutter is also a type of boarder patrol sailboat.I tend to prefer the Civil War doctor definition...sawbones was a slang term used to talk about them. This feels like the "here, we'll give you three street names at once" clue but there's a lot of avenues we could take...
I am thinking History where 2 early settlers lived in the area met the requirements of the description - like already has been mentioned of a Taylor and a Doctor. So neighborhood History would be needed to grasp that aspect.Another thought is that the park is in 2 pieces, two sections / and or has 2 main paths, you need to choose, and also along this line is that we could possible have some street names that could be coming into play that lead to a park or possible even the type of street layout and design. Then lastly there is the whole path within the park idea of one actually being a herringbone brick pattern that would take you one way, and another path the other. 2 cutters does make it sound like actual people, and their history would be needed. A taylor cuts material and a Doctor . Surgeon cuts bones. Could there be a Taylor street and another street Surgeon Street? something like that? Either you know the history or you dont, but you need to pick a path to take, so the park has 2 sections, or 2 areas, upper and lower? My noodle is tie yert lol
Also makes me think perhaps of two paths has one been recently attempted to be cleared? clue 4 folks, where’s the chatter?? Our team is due to pluck this thing! It’s going to warm up today and tomorrow.
I remember that in years past, if our numbers and/or parks don’t change we didn’t need to send them to you again Am I remembering correctly or has that changed ?
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