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Fairy Cross Rocks 4.0

Fairy Cross Rocks 4.0

Coffee Klatsch, Memories, Occasions, Oh Ja, Stearns, Wobegon TrailApril 17, 2025

It’s not easy to find a fairy cross rock.

The Silence of the Birds

The Silence of the Birds

Coffee Klatsch, Oh Ja, Stearns, Wobegon TrailApril 9, 2025

We listened to the rustle of grasses, the leaves in the trees, the distant traffic. But after a few days I realised there was no birdsong.

Avon Ghost Story

Avon Ghost Story

Coffee Klatsch, Memories, Oh Ja, Stearns, Wobegon TrailOctober 31, 2024

It’s Halloween, with snow falling in Stearns County. Almost All Soul’s Day. Time for a ghost story. A true story, which I retell more than half a century later.

A Commotion of Coots

A Commotion of Coots

Cuisine, Wobegon TrailSeptember 20, 2024

Lake Osakis wore a black veil of birdlife – a coating of coots.

Wobegon’s Fairy Crosses

Wobegon’s Fairy Crosses

Coffee Klatsch, Oh Ja, Stearns, Wobegon TrailOctober 8, 2022

How is it that I never knew about fairy crosses, even though you can find them on the banks of the Blanchard Dam?

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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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