At one point when she was working as a hairdresser, Colleen Woodbeck’s boss told her to style a deceased person’s hair for the funeral. While working on her hair, Woodbeck watched a funeral director embalming another body nearby.
With St. Patrick’s Day looming, many communities are preparing for parades, Irish pubs are stocking up on ales and lagers, and Irish-Americans (and others) are decking themselves out in green. But does anyone know what this celebration is about or who St. Patrick was?
The vast pine and birch forests of northern Minnesota have provided hundreds of local entrepreneurs with a natural resource to make unique and sustainable wood products ranging from furniture to walking sticks.
The Minnesota Street Rod Association is "Going Back to the '50s" this June with its 35th annual car show. It gives you a great sense of what the cars used to be like; it also gave me the idea to ask about what was it like to live in the 1950s -- when a dollar could go a long way. I decided to interview my grandmother, Jean Fillbach, about when she was a teen growing up in southwestern Wisconsin. Jean was born on a small farm near Steuben, where she still lives.