August 14, 2013, Wednesday - Breakfast With a Preservationist: Penny A. Petersen presents Minneapolis Madams: The Lost History of Prostitution on the Riverfront
Time: 8:00am to 9:00am
Location: Mill City Museum, ADM Conference Room: 6th Floor, 710 South Second Street
Breakfast With a Preservationist: Penny A. Petersen presents Minneapolis Madams: The Lost History of Prostitution on the Riverfront
Historian Penny Petersen will give a presentation based on her new book, Minneapolis Madams, a surprising and riveting account of the city’s red-light district and the powerful madams who ran it.
Paul Maccabee, author of John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks’ Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, says, “Minneapolis Madams is an utterly engrossing, behind-the-bordello look at the collision between the Mill City’s commercial sex industry, civic corruption, and advocates for sexual purity in the 1800s. Penny A. Petersen probes the nineteenth-century ecosystem of brothels and streetwalkers with a keen eye for political hypocrisy, sexual double standards, racial prejudice, and gender-driven economics. A gem of sexual and social history, this book illuminates the boudoirs of the long-forgotten red-light districts with insight, wit, and humanity.”
Parking: Street parking on South Second Street is usually available, and a parking garage across the street from the museum.
Cost: This event is free! Donations are welcome for coffee and sweet treats.
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