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Essay | How Craft Builds Connections from the Past Into the Future
Honoring the Past, Building the Future: SMIF Celebrates 40 Years
Public Health Delivers Vital Services for All

Year: 2023

Pottery for sale in Sue Pariseau’s studio southeast of Lanesboro.  Sue organizes the annual Bluff Country Studio Art Tour in April.  (Photo by Renee Bergstrom)

Profile | The Artist Behind the Bluff Country Studio Art Tour

Dave and Lynn Susag, pictured here in traditional Viking garb, have made multiple trips to Norway. (Photo submitted by Lynn Susag)

Profile | A Norwegian Love Story

Fillmore County became a member of the AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities. Pictured Front Row:  Bonnie Heidtke (Wykoff), Linda King (Mabel), Marge Fuller (Lanesboro); Back Row:  Dan Conway (Southeast Area Agency on Aging), Sue Olinger (Harmony), Pam Nelson (Chatfield), and Bill Sullivan (Pilot Mound). (Photo by Brenda Pohlman)

Developing Age-Friendly Communities in Fillmore County

Jeremy Pederson looks for baked goods to buy at the 2023 Christ Lutheran Church Craft Fair & Bake Sale in Preston. (Photos by John Weiss)

Holiday Craft Fairs and Bake Sales Build Community

The author, Don Bell, is pictured by Amish Experience in Lanesboro—his grandfather’s leather shop was located on the ground floor in the 1950s. The building at one time housed the Odd Fellows Lodge.

Essay | I’m Changing My Ways with Water

To address global climate change, we embraced the United Nation’s Intergovernmental panel recommendations to replace fossil fuels with locally generated electric power, including back-up power storage, and to utilize heat pump technology as a heat source. That’s where we started. (Contributed photos)

An All Electric, Solar Shingle, Amish Built, Forever Home

(Submitted photo)

Poetry | Welcome Winter

On cold winter days, ice creeps slowly from the shore toward the main channel of the Root River near Peterson. (Photo by Craig Johnson)

Cold Days…Hot Nights

Paul Wotzka, hydrologist and co-founder of the Minnesota Well Owners Organization, speaks about the challenges karst geology presents to water quality in Fillmore County during a Water Quality Forum at Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center, Lanesboro, on November 16. (Photo by John Torgrimson)

Local Forums, EPA Raise Questions About SE Minnesota Water Quality | State Agencies Respond

(Photos by Andy Lowe)

Poetry | Emerging

The Historic Forestville bridge, built in 1899, before it was hoisted off its abutments and placed on the south side of the Root River. (Photo by John Torgrimson)

Moving Day for a 19th Century Bridge at Historic Forestville

Homeschoolers team up to provide group-learning opportunities for their students.  At left, Odyssey Homeschool Association families explore the Ferguson Apple Orchard in Galesville, Wisconsin (submitted photo).  At right, Christian Homeschoolers of Fillmore County families in front of Kapper’s Big Red Barn near Chatfield.  (Photo by Mya Hagen)

Homeschooling: A Closer Look

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