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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What does Harmon Killebrew have to do with Black Hawk and settlement-era history, you may ask. Not much, really. But I’d like to post something as a memorial, and while I have other blogs where I could do that, it was baseball that got me started on bicycling to Black Hawk sites, as I once [...]
I don’t like carrying things on my back. It’s too much work and my back doesn’t like it very well. Carrying things in bicycle panniers is much better. This photo shows another way to carry your gear. It was taken December 27, 1971. We’re moving our fishhouse to a better spot on West Leaf Lake [...]
The last couple of weeks have not included much bicycling, much less blogging. They did include an afternoon fishing on the above lake, though. Myra thinks I should take her fishing more often. The problem is, I don’t have patience for fishing like I did when I was younger. But patience isn’t required on this [...]