About
Twin Cities Tracks was founded in 2019 to carry forward a pilot project that began a few years earlier: sharing local histories of the Twin Cities—on foot. The name reflects both the paths we traced through the city and the multiple “tracks” in the editing timelines where these stories came together.
In 2020, the pandemic brought walking tours to a halt. Instead, we shifted to oral histories on Zoom. Our first major project, Ask Al, was created with generous support from the Minnesota Historical Society. The series features conversations with colleagues of local legend Al Milgrom, who spent decades shaping film culture as a programmer and filmmaker. The stories are as quirky as they are revealing—from scrounging up bicycles at the Toronto International Film Festival, to brushing past Mick Jagger at a reception without much notice (after all, he wasn’t a filmmaker).
With Ask Al, Twin Cities Tracks broadened its scope beyond local paths in Minnesota, opening the door to stories that cross borders and connect communities.
Let’s preserve and celebrate the people and places
who make us what we are.
Our Mission
Twin Cities Tracks is a 501(c)(3) organization that preserves and shares stories of people and places from the Twin Cities and
reaching farther, across borders.
