To Teach

I was very idealistic when I got my first teaching job at the Little Falls Middle School.  I taught Language Arts and Reading to sixth…

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To Be a Frannie Girl

Those of us who attended St. Francis High school in the 1960s were called Frannie Candies. I started high school in 1962. We didn’t have…

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To Be a Paper Boy

The newspaper business has changed and evolved over the years. Little Falls now has “the Record,” a collection of local stories of interest, advertisements, and…

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To be a Member of the Genealogy Society

A new organization was being formed and started in Morrison County. I attended the charter meeting and wasn’t even sure what genealogy was or how…

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To be a Census Taker in 2010

I had seen the advertisement for helping to take the census in the newspaper. I was working part-time then, but thought this sounded like a…

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To Be a Packer Fan

Although I am not a big sports fan, I have followed the Green Bay Packers since childhood. I lived in Ohio from birth until after…

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To Move to Morrison County

The following What’s It Like essay was left on our Getting Started page as a comment. It seems more appropriate to add it to the…

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Selling to Lutherans

Lutherans in Morrison County. There are more cattle than Lutherans in Morrison. There were 33,000 of us, but close to 50,000 of them. I came…

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To Make Ashtrays

When I was a kid, my classmates and I were encouraged to make ashtrays during the pottery unit in art class. Teachers wanted us to…

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WIL Project to be Featured at MC Genealogy Meeting

The What’s It Like project will be the featured topic of the Morrison County Genealogy Society’s meeting on Monday, October 24, 2011. The meeting will…

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