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Author
Publisher
Nodin Press
Publication Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Journalist Dave Nimmer won a Minnesota Book Award back in 1992 for a personal narrative called The Journey Goes On. Thirty years later, decidedly older and slower, slightly battered and bruised, but hopefully also stronger and wiser, hes back with The Home Stretch. During the decades since that early success, he lost friends, chased dreams, and learned lessons--sometimes the hard way. In this collection of essays he explores the process of aging with...
Author
Publisher
Books by Nancy H
Publication Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The author and her husband left professional careers and a metropolitan area of over 2.5 million people for the small town of Lanesboro, population 754, in rural, southeastern Minnesota. For the next chapter in their lives, they would own, rehabilitate and operate the 14-room, 19th century Habberstad House Bed and Breakfast. Get the inside story as two city slickers learn what goes into trying to find balance in their lives as they build a very successful...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From the world's leading authority on Bob Dylan comes the definitive biography that promises to transform our understanding of the man and musician - thanks to early access to Dylan's never-before-studied archives.
Using material from Dylan's personal archive, Heylin tells the story of the singer's meteoric rise to fame. Readers will follow Dylan's arrival in early 1961 in New York, where he is embraced by the folk scene; his elevation to spokesman...
Author
Publisher
Nodin Press
Publication Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Fifty years ago, Joan Crosby and her husband, Dick, moved from the Minneapolis suburbs to spend the winter on the outskirts of the BWCAW in a primitive one-room cabin without road access or modern conveniences. She baked pies in a Dutch oven whill Dick kept the woodpile topped up. They heard the wolves howl and the loons call, watched the seasons change, entertained occasional visitors--invited or not--and made periodic trips across two lakes and...
Author
Publisher
Mill City Press
Publication Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Approaching their 50's, Bill and Kathy Turgeon gave up their jobs to go back to the land and a simpler life. They purchased 40 acres in northern Minnesota and built a homestead. This is their story, along with valuable insights on how to build a homestead, move toward greater self-reliance, and achieve simple, dept-free living.
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Publication Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Minnesota has been and is now a seedbed for cultural and political movements that have changed the country, and its history weaves a pattern of wide opposition between left and right. This is the story of a people who are repeatedly challenging the status quo.