A Visit to the Forest Service Nursery — A Place Where Forests Are Born By Bill Keitel I was raised in a landscape where diversity was an unfamiliar concept — where the wind swept unimpeded through endless rows of corn and soybeans, and that was, for the most part, the entirety of my world. My …
It was a Navajo couple that we have traveled with doing shows and exhibitions throughout the South West U.S. We spend days together and visit incessantly in between our customers. They are quite traditional Navajo but have extended themselves beyond the reservation. The customers they acquire are from all walks of life and yet they …
Your Sunday Miserable Epistle- DRIVING THROUGH THE BIBLE BELT For twenty seven years I have taken the diagonal roads/blue highways back from Arizona to my home in the upper midwest. I have watched with alarm in these Bible Belt States, every year seems to be getting worse, the decay is continuing unabated. The states that …
THE LORDS DAY IN SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA It was the Lord’s Day, and I confess, I was working. Not in the fields or behind a desk, but sweeping up plaster dust after the workmen had gone. They’re helping to refurbish an apartment that was last remodeled sometime back when people still said “turn of the century” …
It had vanished without a trace when my grand parents left their home for an apartment of elder living. We thought we had quizzed everybody that might have a clue of their “whereabouts”. Over a half century had past and all of the grand children thought they were lost to antiquity. Recently while celebrating my …
THE STRONGEST BUILT BRICK OUTHOUSE IN ALL OF THE NATION ! Found at Blue Mounds State Park in the Deep South West of Minnesota lies a structure that is on the National Registry of Historic Places. Alas, it is made of stone not brick. The stone is called Sioux Quartzite or Morton Gneiss and measures …
It was a dirty, dusty and dangerous journey for this Guatemalan to end up across the street from where I live.He fled his home country and arrived in South Western Minnesota. He left a country that he loved, it was a country of his birth, a country that had become intolerable. At nineteen years of …
HUNTERS, GATHERERS, CONSUMERS IN THE HOLOCENEI like shopping at fancy grocery stores when I get the chance.It is fun to have a bountiful selection and be able to splurge on occasion on items we feel are a luxury.I justify this by not doing it on a weekly basis but perhaps once every few months when …
They came from Guatemala six years ago and have quietly filled the neighborhoods of this small town. They sought out this community because of a need for manual labor in the meat processing markets of the midwest. Worthington is a town that has numerous small starter homes because it has always been a town of …
Luverne, Minnesota is the best kept secret in the midwest. With the tri-state band festival, Blue Mounds State Park, and more this is a great place to visit.