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Good morning from Collegeville,

I am still upset with Great Grandma Anne Oien for not taking the train from Chicago south to Kentucky instead of north to Minneapolis.  She could just as well have settled on a 40 acre horse ranch in Bluegrass Country as the farm close to the railroad near Cushing.  That way I would be complaining about the cool fifties instead of the bitter cold below zero that is heading our way this coming week.   I know that a whole lot of folks thought that Minnesota reminded them of Norway so they conned others into coming here to shiver together in the winter and swat mosquitoes in the summer.  They were less than honest.  There is nothing to do but stay close to the fire.  Maybe I should take up ice fishing.

This week the APHC staff is on its annual ice fishing retreat to the mighty Lake of the Woods and so they are revisiting two shows that they did last January from The Fitzgerald Theater.  Special guests include Becky Schlegel, Suzy Bogguss, Roy Blount Jr and Chuck Mead of BR-549.  Chuck will give a talk on the philosophy of honky-tonk music plus Nellie McKay will make her debut performance.  Enjoy the show. 

This email was delayed due to computer problems which may have been a blessing since The Fed-Ex folks just dropped off four pairs of tickets to The Metropolitan Opera at the Parkwood Theater in Waite Park for tomorrow at noon.  The show is “La Rondine”, live on the big screen.  Please contact me if you want to go and you can pick up the tickets in St. Cloud this afternoon..

“Blessings continue to abound.  Also some sharp fears, even the occasional battle with desolation. 

It helps to be surrounded as I am by love.”  Br. Dietrich Reinhart    5/17/1949   – 12/29/2008