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Bring in a billboard, a pregnant burrito & more along I-94
IN THE PAST YEAR, I’ve begun to really pay attention to billboards. Prior to this, I viewed these mega ads primarily as visual clutter. A string of billboards near Alexandria, photographed while...
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Battling winter in Fargo
A sign along a city street welcomes visitors to Fargo, North Dakota, from Moorhead, Minnesota, just across the Red River. I might change that “city of parks” to “The windy city.” Minnesota Prairie...
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Just how bad is the weather in the Fargo area?
THE TOP 10 REASONS a Minnesota mom concludes the weather is really bad in Fargo: 10) The West Fargo Police Department’s business office closes on Sunday due to “potential extreme weather conditions”...
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Thankful he’s back in Fargo & not stranded along I-94
FOX 9 news at 8 a.m. shows just how bad the weather situation is in Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin. Fargo is located above the B in “Blowing.” Faribault lies 300 miles to the south and east...
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Dog sled or boat?
DEAR SON, In less than three weeks you finish your spring semester classes at North Dakota State University in Fargo. Traveling Interstate 94 on our way to Fargo with hours to go. File photo. Your dad...
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A photographic journey through the prairie to Fargo
ON THE WAY WEST TO FARGO, the land is wide, the sky big. Fields and farm sites—punctuated by occasional cities, like Sauk Centre, Alexandria and Fergus Falls, and exits to small towns—once west of St....
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In praise of Northern Prairie Culture: How Fargo of You
This water tower is located in West Fargo, an area of shopping malls, restaurants, Big Box stores, hotels, etc. Minnesota Prairie Roots file photo. TWO DAYS AFTER I FINISHED reading Marc de Celle’s...
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I am distinctly Minnesotan and proud of it
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, before my son-in-law married my daughter, I gifted him with How to Talk Minnesotan by Howard Mohr. It’s a rather humorous, but truthful, volume of Minnesota Speak. The original...
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Bird out of the cage
Bird art perched on a front yard rock in a Northfield, MN., garden. Minnesota Prairie Roots file photo. PLEASE TAKE TIME this weekend to read and/or view this story from Fargo:...
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Only in Minnesota, North Dakota & Wisconsin
Ice fishing on Union Lake in rural Rice County, Minnesota. Minnesota Prairie Roots file photo February 2017. LIFE CAN BE STRANGER than fiction. As a life-long Minnesotan, I know that to be true....
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