Look what I found! Luverne, MN is the best kept secret in the midwest.
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.
George Dayton-Citizens National Bank 1901
Recently while exploring the attic crawl space I came across this box, the Jefferson Wizard Doorbell Transformer along with a ten pound can of commercial putty. The Citizens National Bank was built in 1901 when the streets of Worthington, Minnesota were dirt. Horses, wagons and trains were the only means of transportation. The bank was …
Those that have seen the wind – Admiral Beaufort
We live in an age where electronics, weather services, and GPS systems inform us of all our meteorological needs. Our temperature, our speed, our heat index, our low and high pressure systems, our wind speeds. All of these indexes are determined by people with state of the art electronic contrivance. Step back two hundred years …
Stonework & Masonry Extending Man’s Reach Through the Ages
My interest in all things stone came about at an early age. I marveled at the workmanship of arrowheads that I had found in the outlying fields and later in life I was in need of a fireplace that included a brick surround. It was one on my first masonry projects and it turned out …
DON’T ALWAYS BELIEVE WHAT YOU THINK-(the creation of a viewpoint) ROADNOTES 2018
DON’T ALWAYS BELIEVE WHAT YOU THINK-THE CREATION OF A VIEW POINT By Bill Keitel. A curious beginning, I had just finished apprenticing at a local shoe repair shop, I specialized in creating prescription orthopedic buildups for a Podiatry School that was located in my community. I elected to strike out on my own and …
Artist Profile-David Behrens-ROADNOTES 2018
David Behrens started his life with a pencil in hand, drawing was an integral part of his childhood and it followed into his adult life. He has always had the ability to put on paper what he has pictured in his minds eye. Drawing life’s images is a talent that he does not take lightly. …
Ted Turner and the pictures we never took
TED TURNER The pictures we never took. (Please submit a bison industry photo) We’ve had good fortune associating ourselves with the bison industry. It is an industry that is comprised of ranchers and processors. (hat’s off to friend Rodney Sather and the NBA) Occasionally I have been asked to do some public speaking. I was …
Three Rivers Petroglyphs
The sun rise over the Sierra Blanca Mountains was interrupted by a SONIC BOOM!….as was our peaceful slumber. We peer out of our StarShip (the name for our R.V.) and thirty miles distant we can see the reflecting sands of White Sands Missile Range north of Alamogordo, NM. Rumor has it that German fighter pilots …