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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 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 …
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 …