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Listening for the Weather

Listening for the Weather

Coffee Klatsch, Memories, StearnsMarch 3, 2023

Minnesotans understand a funnel cloud, a menacing sky, the gusts of wind that mean business.

Shmokin’ To Freeport

Shmokin’ To Freeport

Coffee Klatsch, Cuisine, Stearns, Wobegon TrailJanuary 31, 2023

It’s the town that welcomes you with a smile, and a cinnamon roll at Charlie’s Cafe.

Poopers & Wiener Planters

Poopers & Wiener Planters

Coffee Klatsch, Cuisine, Oh Ja, StearnsJanuary 27, 2023

Residents of Fishers, Indiana resorted to signs to divert covert lawn poopers.

Candles In Memory

Candles In Memory

Cuisine, Memories, StearnsJanuary 22, 2023

All families have secrets. As people get older or pass away, the secrets come to light. Like Grandma Lena’s.

Dairy Queen Delights

Dairy Queen Delights

Coffee Klatsch, Cuisine, Memories, Stearns, Wobegon TrailJanuary 15, 2023

Some things change, some stay the same.

Hat Hair 101

Hat Hair 101

Memories, Oh Ja, Stearns, Wobegon TrailJanuary 8, 2023

I’d forgotten about hat hair.

Living Dolls

Living Dolls

Coffee Klatsch, Oh Ja, StearnsJanuary 4, 2023

Mannequins are freaky and sometimes disturbing. I see them everywhere and can’t help photographing them.

Well Heeled

Well Heeled

Coffee Klatsch, Oh Ja, StearnsDecember 30, 2022

Meh to the stiletto.

The Year That Santa Forgot

The Year That Santa Forgot

Coffee Klatsch, Memories, Occasions, StearnsDecember 25, 2022

When you have many children, it’s easy to forget one at Christmas. It hurts if you’re the forgotten one.

Dark Shadows Blue

Dark Shadows Blue

Coffee Klatsch, Memories, Oh Ja, StearnsDecember 21, 2022

Collinwood, home to the Collins family, features gothic architecture and many candles in Dark Shadows Blue.

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We of Wobegon

Lena and Mina were my grandmothers – Stearns County, Minnesota women who grew up and raised families in small towns around the Lake Wobegon Trail. Born in the USA, they spoke German and had German accents. As did my parents, who spoke only German until they went to school. As do some of my cousins, who have never lived anywhere but Stearns County. We’re quirky folks, like those in Garrison Keillor’s fictional Stearns town of Lake Wobegon. I’m Laurie Hilsgen, and if you’re reading this, you might be Wobegonian, too. Let’s celebrate our loony ways. Oh ja!

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