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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.

Well Heeled

Well Heeled

Coffee Klatsch, Oh Ja, StearnsDecember 30, 2022

Meh to the stiletto.

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.

For Mary and Sue and Sue

For Mary and Sue and Sue

Memories, StearnsOctober 14, 2022

You’d be crazy to cross Mr Smith’s garden. But one night I had to.

Prairie of the Dolls

Prairie of the Dolls

Coffee Klatsch, Oh JaOctober 3, 2022

Stearns County and the whole of Minnesota are a hunting ground for vintage items and antiques.

Doesn’t It Hurt Your Eyes?

Doesn’t It Hurt Your Eyes?

Memories, StearnsSeptember 19, 2022

She was trying not to judge, but her voice gave her away. Sister Paulette Laufer hated my bright blue eyeshadow.

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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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