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Tag Archives: history
Four Generations in America
I wrote this paper in 1972 for Dr. K. Smemo’s History 349, The Scandinavians in America. I’m planning to share a ‘family story’ or two about this side of the family in Saturday’s post: which will be both shorter, and … Continue reading
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Dr. Hong, Ancient History, and the Bible
I’ve had memorable instructors. Most of them were memorable in good ways. Like Dr. Hong,1 who taught Moorhead State’s ancient history classes in the early 1970s. By the time I graduated, I think I’d taken every ‘ancient history’ class the … Continue reading
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A Mural, America, Changes, and Doing Our Job
Things keep changing. That’s hardly a new idea. “Everything changes and nothing stands still” (“πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει”, quoted by Plato in “Cratylus” )(Heraclitus, Wikiquote) I’ll be talking about the new mural in my town’s Walmart, how this isn’t … Continue reading
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Dad and a Poison Ivy Patch
Growing up, my folks and I would go to Itasca State Park, north of Park Rapids, in Minnesota’s lake country. The place has changed since then, a little. The place I remember as a parking area, a little north of … Continue reading
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Corn Altar, Communist Crucifix, AI Pope Pic: Perspectives
About a week ago, in a discussion of what’s been happening in Vatican City, someone referred to the late Pope Francis as a “commie in a cassock”. I hadn’t run into that particular phrase, but I’m all too familiar with … Continue reading
