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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20140124__140125bbcut-norwayfloat_2.webp, 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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20140521__140525superpalace.webp, 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, 20140523__5-23IcePalace1992.webp, 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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20140204__140207bbcut-39palace.jpg, 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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20110131_023405_vulcanKrewe.webp, 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