This is a view of the main business district in Henning, MN. The old Advocate office is shown in the foreground. The current Citizen Advocate office is further down the street. I don’t know what the people here did for the Fourth of July this year, but when I rode through on July 8 [...]
Allowed it to wither
This building is the former office of the Henning Advocate, I was told. It could very well have been the office back in my high school days, but I don’t remember ever having a reason to know where it was located. Even less do I know whether this was the location of the Alliance Advocate [...]
That Unsavory Sheet
Last night I pulled out the copy of the Citizen’s Advocate that I bought for a dollar when I stopped at the newspaper office in Henning on last Friday’s bike ride. It was interesting to see the surnames that had been familiar to me during high school days, and to wonder whether the people [...]
Henning MN
It has been a few years since I last got in a 100-mile ride, so I took advantage of the long days of early July and the good rural roads near my parents’ home in north-central Minnesota to try for one last Friday. If I could have gotten in a complete round trip I would [...]
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Here's a scan of an authentic 1964 absentee ballot with my grandmother's X in the GOP column. My grandmother was in...Ken Steinhoff on That Unsavory Sheet
Over the years, when I'd return to my home town for an annual visit, I'd scan the faces at checkout...