This book is a continuation of my first book, Heart and Hard Work: Memories of Northeast Minneapolis and was born out of peoples claims that there were things missing in my first book. "You didn't include my church or you didn't include the little store, just down the corner from us that everyone loved." So like the first book I tried to include places that people felt connected to.... At any rate I have added two volumes of history to Northeast Minneapolis that didn't exist before in the library or in the bookstores. It was also my mission to collect as many photos as I could.... The years covered in this book are from the story of Pierre Bottineau in the 1840w through the interviews of people who grew up in the 1950s and '60s. - excerpts from Foreword