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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

For the past 40 years, Lanesboro has carried out a Christmas tradition called the “Adult Prom”. The tradition lives on.

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

A German immigrant’s life and death was a mystery to his ancestors until a great-great niece unraveled the bizarre story.

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