ListenIn new podcast, Minneapolis reporter follows the story of couple who owned his house 100 years ago
It’s a familiar tale: a family moves into a new house that turns out to be visited by the spirits of those who lived there many years earlier. “Ghost of a Chance,” a new podcast by the Minnesota Star Tribune, is not a ghost story. But it brings to life the story of the former residents of reporter Eric Roper’s house, which he bought in South Minneapolis in 2020.
Harry and Clementine Robinson were in the first generation of their families born free in the United States. When they moved into the house in 1919, they were among just a few Black families to own a home in that part of the city. They moved out just a few years later, in 1940…