Tag: Minnesota
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Community
The annual high school holiday concert, featuring every single musical ensemble in the school, is a wonderful reflection of community. Community is found in the audience — parents and grandparents, neighbors and friends. More importantly, an incredible community is found on stage — not only are these students musicians, but they are found in athletics,…
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Julebyen on the North Shore
When the temperatures dipped below zero, Minnesotans still got out to enjoy a weekend of outdoor markets and festive activities at Knife River’s “Julebyen” (Christmas village). After winter storm Cleon blasted northern Minnesota with two to three feet of snow, Knife River — a small town along the North Shore of Lake Superior — forged…
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Cleon is No Match for the Local Hardware Store
As Cleon rages on, with snow accumulations in Duluth and along the North Shore of Lake Superior ranging from 18 inches to over three feet, and the local schools canceling classes for the third day in a row (cripes, these kids will be going to school until July now), the trusty local hardware store carries…
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The Swinging Bridge Swings Again
I stood looking at the diverging river from the revived swinging bridge at Jay Cooke State Park and was reminded of Robert Frost’s famous poem, The Road Not Taken: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both . . . In typical fashion, I got a late start and…
Travel. Garden. Eat. 