Eric Weicht is a former Cook County resident known for adventuring on bodies of water. He chats here with Will Moore about his most recent trip--canoeing down the Mississippi from northern Minnesota to Memphis through the month of November.
Alistair Cooke was better known as the host of PBS’s Masterpiece Theater. But he was in Rochester today with a film crew to tell the history of America through a visit to Mayo.
It was Bob Dylan’s last day in the recording studio for his second album. That’s when he pulled out a new song he’d been toying with, “Walls of Red Wing.”
Nell Mabey loved her Irish water spaniel Whimpie and life at her sister’s estate Bramble Haw. So she’d combined the two in her new book of poetry, Whimpie of Bramble Haw.
Dr. Philiip Hench was a member of the Norwegian Explorers, Minnesota’s very own Sherlock Holmes club. And now his group wanted to commemorate the world’s greatest detective with a plaque at Reichenbach Falls.
Two hulking record players arrived at the Winona Library in 1936. They were special players with braille knobs that could be borrowed by blind or vision-impaired patrons to listen to the federal government’s new line of Talking Books.
Marlon Brando was born to break rules. And now he’d broken one to many at Faribault’s Shattuck Military Academy and the school was going to kick him out.
