Exploring the Wonders of Minnesota
Christmas is a wonderful time full of a flurry of activities and quite a few flurries of snow. We celebrated Christmas in Minnesota in several uniquely Minnesotan ways and those are recounted here. St. Olaf Christmas Festival: St. Olaf College, where I have taught for the past year, is a small, academically exceptional school in …
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This is Halloween, this is Halloween. Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween Town is real … and it is in suburban Minneapolis. Anoka, a community near Coon Rapids north of the city, calls itself the Halloween Capital of the World. For one month of the year, the town is transformed. Over those 31 days, there are …
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I am Greek. I wasn’t born in Greece, nor was my mother nor my grandparents, but I am proudly Greek American by my heritage. Whenever we are in a new area, then, we seek out the inevitable Greek Festival hosted by the local Greek Orthodox church. The festivals are a staple of many Greek American …
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Long time ago, in an era that is slowly fading from memory into legend, people used to congregate together in groups without the fear of widespread infection. Weird, I know. If we turn our attention back a year to last summer, we were initially acquainted to Minnesota through one of these mass gatherings: The Minnesota …
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Adventures in Gopherland