Bert Rudie – Part I

While we haven’t posted a new “What’s It Like” essay in a while, the project is still simmering. We recently received a long essay covering…

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The Bridge to Everywhere: Little Falls, Minnesota, and beyond.

I was born, raised, and lived as a Little Falls Westsider; then I left.  But I am BACK, and still a Westsider and a Minnesotan.…

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To Be a Shoe-Shine Boy in Little Falls & Camp Ripley

My first real paying job was shining the shoes of National Guardsmen in Little Falls and Camp Ripley. I was about 10 years old and…

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To Attend the Lutefisk Supper at Bethel Lutheran Church

The following essay first appeared in “The EnLightener,” Bethel Lutheran Church’s newsletter, in December 2011. The Lutefisk Supper is a longstanding annual event which the…

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