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CAPITOL CHATTER Stadium backers don't believe everything they read
Dont believe everything you read, especially in sports blogs and columns about government issues. That is what some Minnesota politicians say after dealing with Vikings stadium issues for months, or ...
Posted on 4/23/12 at 3:13 AM
STAFF BLOG CHEF JEFF A Carrot Salad for a Veteran
In about 10 days, between 50 and 100 World War II veterans from the area will embark on a trip to Washington, D.C., to visit the memorial to their wartime service and sacrifice. I'm sure if my dad, Er...
Posted on 4/7/09 at 3:23 AM
Book Report: Death, travel, voodoo will interest readers
Here’s a book that should make it from the region all around the country.
It’s “A New Billy Collins: Keeping an Eye on Death,” by Joy Lee Davis (Trade Press, Inc., 4312 Pond View, White Bear Lake, 55110, $20.)
By Dave Wood, columnist , November 11, 2011
Book Report: Read about revolutionaries, get spooked, too
I remember my political science professor telling us naïve freshmen that if you took strip of plastic and bent it into a hula hoop, fascists and communists would end up together at the juncture where the two ends meet.
By Dave Wood, columnist , November 03, 2011
Book Report: With winter months approaching, read about Antarctica’s explorers
Two months from last Friday marks the 100th anniversary of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen’s historic arrival at the South Pole.
By Dave Wood, columnist , October 27, 2011
Book Report: Got time for a very scary story?
The girl looks up at him again. Dark eyes narrow beneath her curls.
By Dave Wood, columnist , October 13, 2011
Book Report: Murder mystery, romance revolves in Amish community
Forty years ago, when Amish families began buying up farms in western Wisconsin, my father wasn’t too enthused. He owned a business on Main Street in Whitehall, and worried that the incursion of buggies, beards and black bonnets might hurt his business.
By Dave Wood, columnist , October 05, 2011
Book Report: These two works double my pleasure
Today, two books about two very different men who were born not very far from my own natal place.
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 30, 2011
Book Report: Past U.S. leader rises from the dust heap; Red Wing author composes second work in series
I’ve never thought much about our 20th American president, James Garfield.
September 23, 2011
Book Report: Area authors make good in the world of literature
Long, long ago, Sinclair Lewis wrote an essay entitled “The Long Arm of the Small Town,” in which he admitted that he had left his natal place, Sauk Centre, Minn., but that it was always with him as he went on to become the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 19, 2011
Book Report: Young adult novels good for a change
In 2003, I had the privilege to speak at a very fine writers’ conference in Eau Claire.
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 12, 2011
Book Report: Mystery or poetry? Take your pick
Tired of crime novels set in Frisco, The Big Apple, LA?
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 05, 2011
Book Report: This week there’s a moonshine mess, a terrier’s tale
Up in Stearns County they still talk about a moonshine operation called, I believe, “Minnesota 101,” which made hooch so good that it continued in operation years after Prohibition was repealed.
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 29, 2011
Book Report: Adolescent’s recipes, school ma’am’s memories fit the bill this week
Milkweed Editions of Minneapolis has figured out a way to kill two birds with one stone.
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 23, 2011
Book Report: Let’s hear it for those alternative printing sites
Thank goodness for university presses. While the big New York publishers languish, academic presses previously concerned with arcane subject matter have again and again taken up the slack and published books for the general reader. The University of Minnesota Press is one such establishment.
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 16, 2011
Book Report: A poor little rich girl, others reminisce
Peg Meier has hit the jackpot
By Dave Wood, columnist , May 27, 2011
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