Soucheray: It’s an inopportune time to be a Winter Carnival Vulcan
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By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThis is a bad time to be a Vulcan. Inopportune, to put it mildly. The fellows, who once
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Soucheray: King Boreas will meet with the mayor about the monument. We’ll see what happens
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By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThoughtful people have written thoughtful letters to the editor concerning the location,
Soucheray: Find that Ice Palace monument and move it to Rice Park
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By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressCharlie Hall, the 47th King Boreas of the St. Paul Winter Carnival, in 1983, challenged
Soucheray: Will Minneapolis steal St. Paul Winter Carnival thunder in 2018?
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By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressEarly warning signs include the idea that Minneapolis, or suspect provocateurs in Minnea
Soucheray: I don’t write the Treasure Hunt clues, but I once hunted
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By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressMy own beloved newspaper did me a disservice last week by printing snippets from a numbe
Joe Soucheray: Bring back the Winter Carnival floats
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Gordon Shumaker built this Whirlpool-sponsored float for the International Festival in Bergen, Norway. (Courtesy Steve Shumaker)
By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressOne of Gordie Shumaker’s biggest Winter Carnival Grande Day parade floats was commission
Soucheray: Super Bowl is fun but ice palace could be forever
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A fireworks display puts the final touches on the lighting ceremony for the 1992 Ice Palace during opening night on Harriet Island in St. Paul Wednesd, The 1992 St. Paul Winter Carnival Ice Palace on Harriet Island in St. Paul. (Pioneer Press: Richard Marshall)
By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressSo magnificent was the Winter Carnival ice palace of 1992 that we — carnival-goers — mar
Joe Soucheray: When they say St. Paul, they'll think, 'ice palace'
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Bulletin Board Notes: Our Web-wandering research has concluded that this is the 1939 Ice Palace. Our best find: http://tinyurl.com/Palace-39. If our c
By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressGloria Carpenter of White Bear Lake wrote to the Pioneer Press last week of her desire t
Worry not over Vulcan vehicles, but over Vulcan victory
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A group of Vulcans cavorting in the streets during the 2009 Winter Carnival.
By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressAs initially reported, it sounded as though the boys had gotten themselves into another
Medallion hunt has never been about the money
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By JOE SOUCHERAY | jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThey are as tough as winter bicyclists, the treasure hunters, as well equipped and cloth