In the spring of 1965, I knew I was going to get married in August, but I felt compelled to prove to myself that I wasn’t stupid. I had failed two quarters at the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology after I graduated Upsala High School in 1961, and it weighed on me. So, I […]
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Comments Off on November 1, 2024 On Monday I will reach a milestone. For the last twenty-five years I have represented Minnesota Public Radio in central Minnesota, western Minnesota and southwestern Minnesota as well as Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Sun Valley, Idaho. In April we sold the Sun Valley station to Boise State Public Radio, but I picked up the […]
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Comments Off on October 25, 2024 I spent a lot of my youth in Upsala, Minnesota. There were “Farm Kids” and “Village Kids”. Some were “summer kids”. They were kids whose parent or parents grew up in Upsala and who were sent to Upsala to spend some time with Grandma and Grandpa during the summer. Some stayed for a few weeks, […]
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Comments Off on October 18, 2024 This afternoon there will be a football game on the grass field in Upsala. Most Fridays the USA Patriots host their games under the lights in Swanville. The Upsala field has no lights. In my day, the football team was the Upsala `Cardinals’, but some time ago Upsala football merged with Swanville and now it […]
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Comments Off on October 11, 2024 Millard Fuller was born January 3,1935 in Lanett, Alabama. He became a self-made millionaire by age 29. In 1968 Millard and his wife Linda gave up their wealth to refocus their lives on Christian service. They moved with their children to an interracial farming community in southwest Georgia, Koinonia Farm. It had been founded by […]
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