F. Salt Fitzgerald(Minnesota-born novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald)and Duck Duck Orange Truck (a reference to Minnesotans’ insistence that the game Duck, Duck, Goose is, indeed, Duck, Duck, Gray Duck) were among the winning names.
Those flags mostly grace lampposts, but also flagpoles, businesses and flower gardens. The red-white-and-blue flashes color into Main Street and elsewhere, creating a visual of patriotism. There’s something about a crisp, new American flag publicly displayed that swells the heart with love of ...
Tags:"Tree of Knowledge and Delight",art,artists,Minnesota,Northfield,Northfield High School,Northfield Public Library,Northfield Young Sculptors Project,reflections,sculpture,St. Olaf College,The Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council GROWING UP, I DIDN’Thave all that much formal exposure to the arts. N...
Friday evening my husband and son bundled up and loaded half of the demolition debris from our home improvement project into the back of a company pick-up truck. I would have helped, except for one minor situation. Only days earlier, while shoveling snow from the driveway, I heard the te...
Sam from COATES, snugged in his COAT, reads CARTOONS in the back of his dad’s flea market truck. The 10-year-old COLLECTS knives and lighters. Lovely CAKE CARRIERS and COLORFUL CUPS for the COLLECTOR. Don’t be fooled into thinking this is an actual ear of CORN. It is not. This ...
As details unfold, I hear of eight dead and a dozen or more injured, bikers and pedestrians plowed down on that bike path. And then that school bus, with two adults and two children inside also struck by the rental truck. Now he’s in custody, a 29-year-old suspect labeled as a te...
I was driving a one-ton pickup, pulling a 30-foot fifth wheel camper. He had to stop with the truck at the port of entry near Raton, so I went on ahead over the pass. This trip was only the third time I had towed the camper and the first time I had driven it in mountains. ...
my husband Wayne and I drove through Raton Pass on our way home from a three-month construction job in Arizona. He was driving a semi. I was driving a one-ton pickup, pulling a 30-foot fifth wheel camper. He had to stop with the truck at the port of entry near Raton, so I went...
Well, sir, I saw a masterful exhibition of truck driving that not only got us out of New York but also safely home in about a day and a half. Those who stayed were snowed in for several days. I hope they all made it home for Christmas. I know I did, thanks to Russ. I had a...
If the “no sharing” lesson didn’t take hold in grade school, college should have finished off the sharing spirit. It only took you one time to learn that if you hold a keg party in your house and put a cup out for people to “chip in” not only will you not get any money, ...