We’ve all heard stories about men who within a year of retirement die of a heart attack or other unexpected ailments. Change is...

Visiting someone with dementia requires a full tank – you can’t be physically or mentally depleted. My Mom has had Alzheimers for 10...

When we started our whole person leadership program for women almost 10 years ago, we had a lot of questions: what is whole person...

4927 Lake Ave. is of one of the oldest and largest homes on the north side of Historic Lake Avenue. The house has 6,705 square feet of...

Sara Markoe Hanson grew up in a neighborhood on Lake Avenue imbued with history. No wonder she has enthusiastically served as the...

Editor’s Note: My family lived at 4621 Lake Avenue in the 1940s through the early ‘60s. For the story and photos of that period of the...

Editor's note: This chapter has been published in the Spring 2024 issue of The Laker. Generations that share ancestry have lived at 4601...

My Grandpa John Nelson and Grandma Marion (Schaefer) Nelson grew up near White Bear Lake (Centerville and Withrow, respectively) and...

As most of you know, my Mom Barb Chapman Nelson is a huge genealogy buff. She and my Dad have moved to St. Andrew’s Village, a senior...

Although the “Cobb House” is a block off Lake Avenue, this blog/book would not be complete without a chapter on it. It is the only solid...

My grandparents owned this house in the 1950s, and I lived there with my parents when I was born in 1957 for about a year. To me it will...

My fascination with Lake Avenue history started before I was born, when my great grandparents worked together at the Chateaugay Hotel,...

This painting of sailboats on White Bear Lake was a gift from Edna to her friend Ruth Chapman. No one has captured the visual charm of...

Only a few buildings in Ramsey County built before 1875 survive, which is one of the many reasons that Lake Ave is so special; about a...

For some who walk Lake Avenue every day at the same time, they enjoy seeing the same people the same dogs, and the same wildlife:...

Almost 10 percent of Lake Ave. homes have been renovated or torn down during the past two decades There have been a lot of major...

Yoga instructor Jean Auger and her husband Michael Auger have owned the 100-plus-year-old home, 4911 Lake Ave., for 25 years. “When we...

It’s said that the best writers write about topics they know well. If that is so, and I believe it is, I was born to write about Lake...