Opinion

Alleghany Attachment

Old outdoor and corporate adventurer here grew up in Minnesota River Valley hometown Jordan; subsequent adventures took him and long-term bride, sweetheart and best friend to papermill towns near oceans’ coasts and in between, before late-life move back to Minnesota’s Northland at once-grand rapids of dandy Mississippi.

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Fish and gardens

Jennie Rasmussen delighted in spilling the beans about the all the good meals of fish they had; they prepared whitefish fresh or smoked and naturally walleye.

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Pilgrims’ Progress

Almost exactly 400 years after Puritan Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock on Atlantic shore, daughter and spouse landed at old Idaho Avenue address on northland’s Bass Lake shore just North of Highway #2.

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