Driving eastbound on U.S. Highway 14 between Nicollet and Mankato. I feel my national pride swell at the sight of flags flying in communities like Elysian, Waseca and Morristown. On a Saturday trip from Faribault to Belview and back, I noticed the red-white-and-blue adorning homes, busi...
I call it the back road to my native southwestern Minnesota. It’s the route my husband and I take to vary our travel or to avoid U.S. Highway 14 road construction and/or traffic between Mankato and Nicollet. Usually we are in a hurry , which allows no time to explore. It is a ...
Herb Carneal, Ralph Jon Fritz, Halsey Hall and, then, pause,Brad Nessler. I clicked on his bio.Nessler and I attended journalism school together at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He graduated a year before me, his focus in broadcasting...