Erica Pearson on Muck Rack

Erica Pearson

Verified
Minneapolis
As seen in: The Minnesota Star Tribune, MSN, Wirecutter, Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Life, Yahoo News, Aol, New York Daily News, New York Post, SFGate, Stuff.co.nz and
Reporter @StarTribune and curious Minnesotan. Journo journey incl: @wirecutter @amNewYork @NYDailyNews @GothamGazette Reach out: erica.pearson@startribune.com
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Erica

Contact Erica, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

What was Minnesota like during the Great Depression?

|
By Sofia Barnett, Erica Pearson Verified
| The Minnesota Star Tribune Verified
What was Minnesota like during the Great Depression? With unemployment as high as 70 percent in some parts of the state, Minnesotans responded to the crisis in unique ways. A man at the bar in Craigville, Minnesota on a Saturday night in 1937. (Russell Lee/Library of Congress) Comment Gift Share When Minneapolis’ landmark Foshay Tower opened over Labor Day weekend in 1929, the celebration was truly over the top.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

What happened to abandoned Cold War radar stations across Minnesota?

|
By Erica Pearson Verified
| The Minnesota Star Tribune Verified
What happened to abandoned Cold War radar stations across Minnesota? Airmen at bustling Air Force stations once watched Minnesota’s skies from Baudette to Chandler. Then everyone left. A view of the Chandler Air Force Station, with its two radar towers, in 1951. (Murray County Historical Society) Comment Gift Share On a summer night in 1966, a couple driving to Worthington spotted a “big orange thing” in the sky, they told police.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Fishing pole flags and tomato can holes: This was Minnesota’s first golf course

|
By Erica Pearson Verified
| The Minnesota Star Tribune Verified
Fishing pole flags and tomato can holes: This was Minnesota’s first golf course “Golf fever” first came to the state in the 1890s. An 1894 illustration in the Minneapolis Daily Times shows golfing fashions of the day. Comment Gift Share Fishing poles marked holes. Tomato cans served as cups. The trendy new game was all over the society pages.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 1,418 licensed articles (1,437 Total)
 •  Privacy  •  Terms  •  Security and Legal  •   •   •   • 

© 2026 Muck Rack

SOC 2® Certified