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Collinwood, home to the Collins family, features gothic architecture and many candles in Dark Shadows Blue.
French poet, writer, and imp Apollinaire invented the calligramme. Minnesota’s famous shapes would make good calligrammes.
Lake Osakis wore a black vail of birdlife – a coating of coots.
We creatures of the earth shouldn’t eat each other’s lips. That’s my firm view.
Red Wing, Minnesota is one of few places in the United States where you can train to repair and care for brass band instruments.
You’d be crazy to cross Mr Smith’s garden. But one night I had to.
Things were being moved. Things were being eaten.
We all have our ways when it comes to Halloween candy.
When I left Stearns County to live in New Zealand, one of the things lost to me was cherry pie.
How is it that I never knew about fairy crosses, even though you can find them on the banks of the Blanchard Dam?