Tonight is Halloween, the night before All Hallows Day. According to Wikipedia, the origin of the word Halloween is Christian, the holiday is commonly thought to have pagan roots. Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while “some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of […]
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0 Comment » Next Tuesday I will reach a milestone. I will have represented Minnesota Public Radio for twenty-six years, in central Minnesota, western Minnesota, southwestern Minnesota as well as Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Until April of 2024, I also represented KWRV 91.9 in Sun Valley, Idaho. We sold it to Boise State Public Radio. I love this […]
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Comments Off on October 24, 2025 I spent a lot of my youth in Upsala, Minnesota. There were “Farm Kids” and “Village Kids”. Some were “summer kids”. They were kids whose parent or parents grew up in Upsala and who were sent to Upsala to spend some time with Grandma and Grandpa during the summer. Some stayed for a few weeks, […]
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Comments Off on October 17, 2025 I moved into this cottage during a blizzard on March 18, 2013. Two men from Red’s Transfer and I started at 8:30 am and we were done by noon. I was alone in Mill Stream Village for a few months before Tom and Helen Kresbach built a standalone house on the corner of Colman Court […]
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Comments Off on October 10, 2025 Today is homecoming in Upsala. In my day, the football team was the Upsala `Cardinals’, but some time ago Upsala football merged with Swanville and now it is the USA (Upsala Swanville Area) `Patriots’. I am planning on being there, but it is too warm to wear my letterman’s jacket. In 1957 I was an […]
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