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Year: 2023

Andrea Miehlisch, Katarina (Miehlisch) Amdahl, and Eric Miehlisch enjoying activities at the 40th annual Lanesboro Dinner Dance in 2022.  (Photo by Barb Jeffers)

It Was a Wonderful Night for Dancing

Josh and Steph Dahl and their three children are pictured on their 450 acre farm south of Rushford. The Dahl’s operate a 160-cow dairy and are involved in the Root River Field to Stream Partnership to control runoff and soil erosion. (Photo by Ann Wessel, Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources--BWSR)

Root Causes, Root Solutions

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At Home In The Big Woods

Jacob Doerrler circa 1874.  As a child he excelled in mathematics, languages and art.  He would later die of starvation in the belief that extreme fasting would cure his ills.  He died on the family farm near Granger. Louis and Martha Nasch in 1913. Martha would later claim that she survived on a food-less regimen for seven years. (Submitted photos)

German Genius, Duped to Death

(Original artwork by Diane Knight)

Poetry | Rearrange, Begin Again

Snowfall creates beauty on ordinary structures as witnessed by this bucolic winter photo.  The sheep fence creates a vantage point from which to view the valley with its flocked trees in the distance. (Photo by Renee Bergstrom) 

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