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Listen: Searching for Snoopy: What happened to all the ‘Peanuts’ statues in St. Paul?
The Curious Minnesota podcast discusses how a tribute to the comic strip’s creator became a sensation in the capital city.
The Minnesota Star Tribune
May 24, 2024 at 12:48PM
It was difficult to walk around downtown St. Paul in the early 2000s without running into Snoopy, Linus, Lucy and Charlie Brown. Over five summers, the “Peanuts on Parade” public art campaign peppered the beloved comic strip characters throughout creator Charles Schulz’s hometown.
Reporter Katie Galioto joins host Eric Roper on the Curious Minnesota Podcast to discuss the background of this project, and where some of these statues can be found today.
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The Strib is as old as the city of Minneapolis. It grew out of several strikingly different papers.
