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Category Archives: Responses
Featured Response – Lou Melini: warmshowers.org
Two weeks before I left on my journey, a friend told me about http://www.warmshowers.org. I had never participated in couch surfing or any other informal exchange of meals or lodging, but after my first warmshowers experience in Portland, ME I … Continue reading
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Profile Response – Connie and Frank Mignone Medina, MN
I knew Connie and Frank Mignone were Catholic the moment I turned up their driveway: all four cars have ‘Catholic’ bumper stickers applied to their rear windshields. We share common ground in that department, as I was raised Catholic and … Continue reading
Profile Response: Laura Cederberg, American Swedish Institute Minneapolis, MN
One quarter of the population of Sweden left the country during the famine of the late 1800’s. More than half of them arrived in Turner Falls, MN and eventually to Minneapolis. Although one in eight returned to the hardships … Continue reading
How will we live tomorrow? – Responses
How will we live tomorrow? “I still know how to make coffee the old fashioned way. When the computers go down, I’ll still have coffee.” Penny, Admin Asst. Western Nebraska Observer, Kimball, NE How will we live tomorrow? “I will … Continue reading
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Profile Response: Brian Corner, Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis, MN
Bohemian. Transitional. Immigrant. Artsy. Gentrifying. Somali. Close-in. Far-out. There is no end to the adjectives that can be used to describe the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, an enclave in the shadows of Minneapolis’ downtown towers. Twenty-six years ago a group of … Continue reading
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Profile Response: Duane Heit, Cresco, IA
Duane Heit is a man who attends to details. Halfway between Calmar and Cresco, the bike path runs through a park in Ridgeway. “Are you Paul?” A man sitting in a folding chair reading a Bible on the edge of … Continue reading
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Profile Response: Michael Telzrow, Wisconsin Veterans Museum, Madison, WI
After the Civil War, Union veterans formed the Grand Army of the Republic, a fraternal organization with both social and political objectives. In Wisconsin, GAR persuaded the state to create a museum of Civil War memorabilia. The museum opened in … Continue reading
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Profile Response: Dennis Stapleton, The Brewery Milwaukee, WI
A spattering of rain turned into a deluge as I cycled from downtown Milwaukee to The Brewery, the former Pabst brewing plant a few blocks from downtown, to meet Dennis Stapleton, an architect with KM Development Company. Dennis hurried … Continue reading
Profile Response: Racine Police Department Racine, WI
I heard that the Racine Police Department had an innovative community policing program, so a few days before arriving in the city of 81,000 along Lake Michigan I sent an email request through their website asking to meet. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Community Policing, Jacato Drive Community Policing House, Racine Police, Racine WI
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Featured Response: Peter Mulvey, Musician
How will we live tomorrow? “I think of this often. Steven Pinker’s amazing book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, charts the decline in human violence over the past 800 years. His TED talk is a distiller version. It makes … Continue reading
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