The main entrance of Winona State University’s Somsen Hall (formerly Winona Normal School’s College Hall). Photograph by the National Register of Historic Places, 2013.

Ragamala Dance Company performing Song of the Jasmine at Lincoln Center Out of Doors in New York City. Photograph by Darial Sneed, 2014. Used with the permission of Ragamala Dance Company.

Sonny and Cher were scheduled to be 1967’s headline musical performers supplementing the more psychedelic “Happening” concert series which included Buffalo Springfield, the Electric Prunes, and Jefferson Airplane. Tragically, Cher suffered a miscarriage shortly before the show was planned to begin. To save face for a heavily promoted show, the duo’s agent and radio promoters convinced a reluctant Sonny to leave California for the show while Cher recovered at a hospital. After holding a last-minute audition for backup female singers, Sonny performed his first show ever without Cher.

Sons of Italy Fourth of July float, Hibbing, 1930.