If you’re just joining us, this is the latest post in an intermittent series on Native Americans whose names may be familiar, especially to those from the American Midwest, but whose stories most probably are not. Traditional history curricula have often relegated these individuals, their influence, and their accomplishments to afterthought, but commercial and place [...]
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Tecumseh – Courageous Warrior and Statesman
If you receive our newsletter (and if you don’t, we’d love to send it to you; click here to subscribe), you know that we announced an intermittent series on less prominent Native Americans who are immortalized in the Midwest by places named after them. It seems a long time since I studied Michigan history in the [...]
Finding Dimes
When I wrote the poem, Ghosts, which is the story of my friend’s passing and subsequent visit to me from the afterlife (if you don’t believe in this sort of thing, you’re welcome to stop reading now), I mentioned finding dimes. We had a remarkable flurry of finding dimes in the months after he passed, [...]
Plentiful Pumpkins
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. – Henry David Thoreau Autumn wouldn’t be complete without pumpkins at our house. This year, Pete’s vegetable garden was designed to need as little attention as possible. That meant the majority of it was devoted [...]
In the Footsteps of F. Scott Fitzgerald
St. Paul’s historic Cathedral Hill is one of my most favorite neighborhoods in the Twin Cities. Because I’ve always lived on the Minneapolis side, it feels like a visit to another world, even though it’s a short drive across the Mississippi River. Cathedral Hill is situated on a bluff overlooking downtown St. Paul, dominated by [...]
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