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Sweet Pork Magic: Spam Turns 75
Blog: My Kind of Town (& Around) - 9 March 2012
2012 is shaping up to be a helluva year for anniversaries: Charles Dickens' 200th, Chicago's 175th, the Titanic's 100th, and the reason we're gathered here today: Spam turns 75.
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Take a Polar Plunge in Minnesota
Blog: Ottsworld - 24 February 2012
American has had a pretty mild winter so far, however it’s still cold enough to freeze lakes in Minnesota. On my recent trip there I was able to experience one of the things that makes Minnesotans great – their love of the cold weather. I admire people who live in the Northern US; they have [...]
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Museums for National Sandwich Day
Blog: My Kind of Town (& Around) - 3 November 2011
Sure, you can celebrate November 3 with a couple slices of meat-filled bread.
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Guide to Lake Superior
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 16 September 2011
Note: See my exchange article at Wandering Educators about best books to read for Nova Scotia. Destination: Minnesota, Lake Superior Book: A View of the Lake: Living the Dream on Lake Superior by Beryl Singleton Bissell A GUEST POST from Jessie Voigts of Wandering Educators.com Regular partner, Jessie Voigts, has let us use a snippet from her [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library To comment on this post or search for related information, click on the link to A Traveler's Library.
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Songwriters gather in Minnesota
Blog: Music Road - 8 September 2011
It has been ten years since top Nashville based songwriter Jon Vezner first came across the North House Folk School in Grand Marais, Minnesota. A Minnesota native himself, Vezner found that the school's setting in historic buildings on the shore of Lake Superior and its mission resonated with his life and the way he approaches writing his songs.
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Mythic Homerun in Minnesota
Blog: My Kind of Town (& Around) - 3 June 2011
Exactly 44 years ago, on June 3, 1967, Minnesota Twins player Harmon Killebrew smacked a home run that rocketed 520 feet into the left field stands and shattered two seats. The Twins never sold tickets for those mythic chairs again.
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Dylan's Duluth
Blog: My Kind of Town (& Around) - 2 June 2011
Folks in Duluth are low-key about native son Bob Dylan. The Electric Fetus record shop, which was advertising a deal on Highway 61 Revisited in honor of Bob's birthday last week, sits a few blocks down the road from his birthplace.
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Nod to Bob, and Carrie, Mary, Rose, Sarah, and Joanie, too
Blog: Music Road - 23 May 2011
Opening doors, changing the way listeners and fellow creators of song think about music, writing songs that are literal, mystical, poetic, political, and funny, and always leaving room for more than one way to take the words: those are several things Bob Dylan has done in five decades of his work as a musician. He’s marking a birthday this last week in May.
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Photo of the Week – Minnesota
Blog: Ottsworld - 12 November 2010
The weather forecast in Minnesota this weekend is for snow. I thought I would give Fall one last hurrah. This photo was taken on my recent hot air balloon ride near Minneapolis. The balloon ride was a present for my birthday last February – but I’m happy I waited till these spectacular fall colors to [...]
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Minnesota Bard
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 5 October 2010
Destination: Minneapolis Book: Pontoon by Garrison Keillor The Great American Road Trip visited Minnesota recently, with an interview with William Kent Krueger, but when I read this Garrison Keillor book, I thought I would return for another visit. Many states can claim native daughters and sons who are distinguished writers.
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Road Trip Music: Minnnesota
Blog: Music Road - 15 September 2010
Lakes and big sky, prairie and open hearted cities, family ties from Norway to Germany to the Deep South to Asia to Ireland: those are just parts of the landscape in Minnesota. As the Great American Road Trip traverses Minnesota, the soundtrack includes the work of three very fine and very different songwriters.
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Daily Travel Photo – Minnesota State Fair
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 31 August 2010
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel photos. Related posts:Daily Travel Photo – Minnesota State Fair Daily Travel Photo – St. Paul, Minnesota Daily Travel Photo – St. Paul, Minnesota
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East Meets West in Aisle 5
Blog: Ottsworld - 19 May 2010
Remember the scrumptious green papaya salad you bought from the street vendor in Thailand? She asked you how spicy you wanted it and your cringed and said “Thai spicy” – knowing you may regret it later when you couldn’t feel your lips. When you came back to America, you decided to relive the [...]
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Farm-sitting: A Cultural Adventure in Owatonna
Blog: Ottsworld - 8 April 2010
“Remember – you have the bigger brain” – these words of instruction provided to me echoed thru my mind. It was my mantra as I went out to feed the horses for the first time. I know very little about horses, except that they are much bigger than me; but apparently their brain [...]
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Walking on Water – Minnesota
Blog: Ottsworld - 18 March 2010
I used to go running around Lake Harriet in Minneapolis, Minnesota 5 mornings a week – no matter how cold it was. I was one of those crazy runners who never let winter stop me, even if my eyelashes were coated in icicles; in Minnesota winter is a fact of life. Winters around the [...]
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76-Second Travel Show: ‘Is cold travel better than hot?’
Blog: Lonely Planet blog - 19 January 2010
Ah, January. The post-holiday/pre-spring ennui is fully descending on most of the northern hemisphere (particularly considering the seriously snowy winter in the UK) and the collective travel focus seems to dwell on escapes to beaches in the Caribbean, Thailand or just the southern hemisphere. Not me. Sure I’d like a week at a beach. But at [...]
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Daily Travel Photo – St. Paul, Minnesota
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 13 January 2010
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Follow me as I travel around the world. [...]
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