Trista Raezer-Stursa

Trista Raezer-Stursa is the University Archivist at Minnesota State University Moorhead. She has a master’s degree in library and information science and a master’s degree in history.

Brian Coyle was the first openly gay person to be elected to the Minneapolis City Council

By Trista Raezer-Stursa

Jan. 24, 2022

One of Coyle’s biggest achievements was the 1991 passage of Minneapolis’s Domestic Partners Ordinance, which allowed same-sex and different-sex couples to register as domestic partners.

Moorhead’s Prairie Home Cemetery inspired name for ‘A Prairie Home Companion’

By Trista Raezer-Stursa

Sept. 14, 2020

At the time that Prairie Home Cemetery was founded, it was situated well out of town and surrounded by farmland. The first recorded burial there was typhoid victim Bernard Berg on May 19, 1875.