Stuff in the Basement

Hamlin Garland Old Jane Ripley grew so tired of her nightly dreams that she finally decided to act on them. Ever since they’d set up homeste...

"What places do I really have to see when I'm here?" I asked the woman behind the desk at the Osage Visitor's Center. ...

Look, I sort of like this. It's silly and vainglorious--sure. It's ripe with ego, of course, but show me a politician who doesn'...

Stephen A. Ambrose says, in Undaunted Courage, that the Fourth of July on the Missouri River began with shooting off "the canon." ...

For six years of my forty years as a teacher, I taught in public schools--two by way of a teaching fellowship at the university, and four at...

“My soul is downcast within me;  therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan,  the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.”     Fo...

On Tuesday, July 11, at 6:30 p.m., the Dutch American Heritage Museum, in Orange City, will be treating a crowd to a readers' theater pr...

Bit of a tribute. Took a stroll yesterday through "the Big Woods, north of Bemidji's own Lake Bemidji to a bog (rhymes with hog), a...

For close to two decades, I've left a warm bed early in the morning, come downstairs, snapped on the desktop, called up the website, and...

“Why are you downcast, O my soul?  Why so disturbed within me?  Put your hope in God,  for I will yet praise him,  my Savior and my God.” In...

"They got a lateral root," my dad-in-law told me, explaining just what we were after. He had me out to the farm to walk beans, the...

Meriweather Lewis got himself one great deal when he picked up a dog in Pennsylvania. The twenty bucks  he paid for his furry buddy way back...

This story must be 25 years old or so, and when I now go through again what some call this denouement, I can't help but think that even ...

Chief Blackhawk That which triggered my fictional attempt to tell this story is not something I witnessed. What I witnessed is what the narr...

The year--just so you know--was 1971, the spring of 1971, long before the advent of "Me Too." When Mel said she knew how the princ...

“ Why are you downcast, O my soul?  Why so disturbed within me?  Put your hope in God,  for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.” ...