Memory, Time, History on Lake of the Woods

Memory, Time, History on Lake of the Woods

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Roy Jones, Warroad Bat Boy and Great-Grandson of Namaypoke
The Glory Days of Amateur Baseball in Minnesota
 • Jill Swenson
Funeral of Kakakeese ("Little Crow") at the Warroad Mission Covenant Church
and new questions about a"land back" arrangement in 1943
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Where Kakakeese ("Little Crow") died in 1943
an abbreviated history of Ah Gwah Ching, a tuberculosis sanitorium
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"Ring Out, Wild Bells" is a poem for these times
The Swedish Tradition of Reciting "Nyårsklockan" on New Year's Eve
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What's that? A Bombardier
It's ice-fishing season on Lake of the Woods!
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Swedish customs of Santa Lucia Day
the festival of lights on December 13
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Norval Morrisseau, Barenaked Ladies, and the biggest art fraud case in history
The paintings in the Warroad Heritage Center by Eddy Cobiness and his three Kakaygeesick nephews — Robert Jr., John, and Don — represent a distinctive…
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Memory, Time, History on Lake of the Woods
Memory, Time, History on Lake of the Woods
Join me for a weekly glimpse into the history of this place where my great-grandparents homesteaded on Ojibway land near Lake of the Woods on the Canadian border.
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