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Postcards from the Transition

Postcards from the Transition.

  • Topics
    • Winds of Change
      • Winds of Change, Africa
      • The Fall of the Wall
      • Velvet Revolution
      • Arab Spring
      • Balkan Turmoil
      • 9/11
      • Soviet Union
    • Christmas Markets
    • Lent and Easter
    • Holy Land
    • Pillars of Hercules
    • Architecture
      • Boardwalk Towns
      • Bridges
      • Castles
      • Religious
    • Transportation
      • Trains
      • Ferries
  • Europe
    • Balkans
      • Albania
      • Bosnia and Herzegovina
      • Bulgaria
      • Croatia
      • Kosovo
      • Macedonia
      • Montenegro
      • Serbia
      • Turkey
    • Central Europe
      • Czech Republic
      • Hungary
      • Poland
      • Slovakia
    • Southern Europe
      • Gibraltar
      • Malta
      • Spain
    • Northern Europe
      • United Kingdom
      • Iceland and Faroes
      • Isle of Man
      • Baltic States
    • Western Europe
      • Belgium
      • Germany
      • Netherlands
  • Africa
    • Kenya
    • South Sudan
    • Tanzania
  • Caucasus
    • Armenia
    • Azerbaijan
    • Georgia
  • MENA
    • Ceuta (Spain)
    • Egypt
    • Israel
    • Jordan
    • Morocco
    • Oman
    • Qatar
    • Palestine
    • United Arab Emirates
  • N. America
    • Canada
    • Contiguous US
    • Cuba
    • Greenland
  • S. America
  • Alaska
    • Sitka
    • South Central Alaska
    • South East Alaska
  • Cruises
    • Iceland, Greenland & Scotland 2017

Category: Minnesota

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The St. Croix River

August 10, 2025August 10, 2025 Rich McClear

Around a century ago Suzi’s grandfather bought some farmland along the St. Croix River off the main channel on Paige’s Slew.  The St Croix is the boundary river between Minnesota and Wisconsin.  It originally was an outlet for Glacial Lake … Continue reading The St. Croix River

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People’s Republic of Seward

August 9, 2025August 10, 2025 Rich McClear

The Seward neighborhood in Minneapolis is an urban jungle.  No, not in that way.  This used to be a neighborhood of well-kept lawns in front of Sear’s Craftsman bungalows.  But the neighborhood has gone wild, in a cultivated kind of … Continue reading People’s Republic of Seward

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Making Noodles

August 7, 2025August 7, 2025 Rich McClear

“For those who love this dish there is nothing quite like real, home grown, spaghetti.” Thus ends the April 1, 1957, segment of Panorama on BBC TV.  I, as a broadcaster, I am very familiar with this classic BBC broadcast … Continue reading Making Noodles

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Our Middle Child, KAXE

July 21, 2025July 21, 2025 Rich McClear

In 1970, on Suzi’s 24th birthday, five friends sat around Sandie Anderson’s kitchen in Minneapolis and signed incorporation papers for what would become Northern Community Radio.  All of us, Dave Molvik, Dale Constantine, Sandie, Suzi and I had been “utility … Continue reading Our Middle Child, KAXE

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