Column: A celebrity visit and considerable controversy
WORTHINGTON — I wish the film “Lincoln” had been made when I was in high school. It would have been precious to have this image of Abraham Lincoln through all the passing years.Worthington Daily Globe, 04/06/2013
Column: Wary of snakes, gators and crocs? You're not alone
WORTHINGTON — It seems to me there are too many crocodiles and alligators and snakes on television and in the newspapers and magazines.Worthington Daily Globe, 03/30/2013
Take me out the ballgame! Lismore — and the region — has storied baseball past
LISMORE — Minnesota has always been baseball crazy. There was a Minnesota town named Nininger. Nininger doesn’t even exist any longer. In 1857, before Minnesota even was a state, Nininger had a baseball club.Worthington Daily Globe, 03/27/2013
A gem hidden forever, but long remembered
WORTHINGTON — Nobles County is the only Minnesota county with no courthouse. For more than a century, there was a courthouse on the historic court square along 10th Street in downtown Worthington. The square was given to Worthington by the Sioux City & St. Paul Railroad in 1872.Worthington Daily Globe, 03/26/2013
Column: Oxford Street sure is busier than it used to be
WORTHINGTON — I was driving south on Humiston toward downtown. I wanted to make a left on Dover. You can scarcely believe what that stretch of city street has come to be.Worthington Daily Globe, 03/23/2013
Column: Worthington had some renowned cars for a renowned pilot
WORTHINGTON — I was trying to remember if I ever rode in one of Henry Ford’s Model Ts. I think I never did.Worthington Daily Globe, 03/16/2013
Column: All he really needed to know, he learned in Round Lake
WORTHINGTON — Everybody knew Ernie Wellhausen. I think they did. If they did not, they are poorer for that fact. Ernie lived at Ocheyedan. Round Lake.Worthington Daily Globe, 03/09/2013
Column: Take a deep breath and be happy we've got power
All across the local region there is no question we can delight day by day in quite clean, pure air, even fresh air from the Arctic. There are no smokestacks looming on our horizons.Worthington Daily Globe, 03/02/2013
Column: Big chickens meant big bucks in the Roaring '20s
WORTHINGTON — The beginning of Holy Week is one month away. Today is Feb. 23. Holy Week begins March 24. This came to mind as I was thinking about the Holy Week Chicken Thieves.Worthington Daily Globe, 02/23/2013
Column: Miss big snowstorms? Think back to '75
WORTHINGTON — Residents of southwest Minnesota and northwest Iowa do not make light of blizzards, nor do they mock stories from people who are overtaken by blizzards.Worthington Daily Globe, 02/16/2013
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