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 …
SIMPLE AS A SIDEWALK The first two courses of cut stone appear to come from stone quarries near Cold Springs, MN. The stone matches the grave markers that can be found in cemeteries in Maui. The trade name is Black Diamond Granite. Sailing ships from New England needed ballast to hold their vessels upright as …
We intentionally miss New Orleans, we swing off the heavily beaten path and head to bayou country. Little did we know we were headed to where alligator shows are filmed and have become the rage. A simple stop at a grocery store and a man named Charlie compliments us on our Sprinter Van Conversion RV …
As a carefree youth my early Junior High School experience came crashing down.I had received a failing grade in Spanish.It meant little or nothing to me.I had never met anyone that spoke this language called “Spanish”.At that young age I was convinced that my teacher was trying to teach me a language that was from …
Fredrick Manfred-Siouxland-My Friend He was a man that loomed large on the landscape. I was nearly a remedial reader when I first got to know him, he meant a great deal to myself and my family. Early recollections was my Uncle Mike (an archeologist/American Resources Group) and Fred Manfred would meet at Eagle Rock and …
I grew up in a small town in South Western Minnesota. I knew the out-of-doors, I knew the bounty of crops, birds, rivers, streams, beaver, muskrat, snapping turtles, river bottoms and sand pits. Throughout those years I utilized the spring water that flowed out of the earth like a gift from God. It was from …
I live in a weird and decadent culture. (For those friends abroad) I live in the U.S.A. Tonight I watched a TV show that is called something like “Survival-Butt Naked in the Wilderness”. It is meant to titillate the viewers into watching Americans naked in the woods and jungles. Butts, breasts and crotches blurred out, …