Too Hot, Went to Lake: Seasonal Photos from Minnesota's Past

by Peg Meier

"Seasonal Photos from Minnesota's Past." Collection of Minnesota people and events, humor, anecdotes, and more. Over 300 photographs!

314 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1993

About the author

Peg Meier, a longtime and award-winning reporter for the "Minneapolis Star Tribune," is the author of "Too Hot, Went to Lake: Seasonal Photos from Minnesota's Past "and "Bring Warm Clothes: Letters and Photos from Minnesota's Past."
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Reviews

[Molly]

A collection of seasonal photos from Minnesota's past with excerpts from letters and journals from each season. The book is broken up into the four seasons of the year and the author wrote captions giving available information about each photo. The photos are really interesting and fun to look at and I enjoyed reading the letter and journal excerpts. At times, I found the author's captions on the photos to speculate too much. Overall, though, a fun look into Minnesota's past.

[emyrose8]

Utterly fascinating. I love looking through old photos to see what I can deduce; this book has the added bonus of captions that hint at what was going on.

[Susan Fetterer]

Admittedly biased, I love Peg Meier's books. We went to high school together, worked on the school paper together and graduated together. We lost track of each other. However I have followed and admired her career with the Minneapolis Star Tribune and bought all of her 'picture' books. Exhaustive research elicited wonderful stories of Minnesota people leading interesting, unique, average, extraordinary lives long before we lived. Different times, different clothes, different jobs, houses, modes of transportation---everything unrecognizable to us--except that they've been given personality, heart, humanity by Peg in her wonderful, narrated compilation of photographs. History come alive.