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.
1966 – Jackie May and Barney Code savored the wilds near where they lived in the Cannon River Valley. They wanted to turn it into a park so it would be preserved for everyone to enjoy.
August 1965 – Revernd Gallagher had only stopped out of the rectory for an errand. But he was gone long enough that scruffy Beatle-type ran off with the coin collection.
July 13, 1957 – Ray Zweiner, Blooming Prairie, had been competing in trapshooting competitions for two decades. But was this the year he would finally be recognized as Minnesota’s trapshooting champ?
Theodora Redwing didn’t like the sight of blood. But one night, when she was working guard duty for the Navy, a girl cut her wrists and Theodora had to act fast.
