Bad Things Happen I remember one disaster when I was young: there was a “general alarm” on the telephone, which was a party-line. A neighbor’s…
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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…
View More Bert Rudie – Part ITo Grow Up Catholic
Prayer and attending church services were of utmost importance in our family. Sunday Mass meant girls sitting on one side and boys on the other…
View More To Grow Up CatholicThe 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.…
View More The Bridge to Everywhere: Little Falls, Minnesota, and beyond.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…
View More To Be a Shoe-Shine Boy in Little Falls & Camp RipleyTo Be a Car Hop
Okay! I was a car hop at Sammy’s Drive-In in the ‘50s. We had “good” customers and some that weren’t so good, but “had” to…
View More To Be a Car HopTo Rake Leaves
Living at home entails participation; no, it requires one to help with chores around the house. Raking leaves was one task I was looking forward…
View More To Rake LeavesTo Be an Emigrant
We searched online (the Internet) for job postings within my husband’s company that would locate us north of I-94. Living in Red Wing, Minnesota, was…
View More To Be an EmigrantTo 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…
View More To Attend the Lutefisk Supper at Bethel Lutheran ChurchTo Be a Kiwanian
I moved to Little Falls in December of 2005. I had been a Kiwanian in Red Wing and decided to see if Little Falls had…
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