“We have great work yet to do”

What a fantastic week. I’m having fun digging through and organizing my sources into their respective niches. It seems like the more I search the more I discover just how essential the production and consumption of food was to this little corner of America. And the more I discover food as essential to the identity of […]

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Getting back on track

It’s been an exceptionally difficult semester thus far, but complaining won’t do me any good. I’ve been visiting the SCHS lately to finish going through all of the boxes they have on the various crop yields during the war, and it’s all coming together fairly nicely. Five organizations in particular will be the focus of […]

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Study Abroad in England

This past semester I studied abroad at University of London, Queen Mary. I had a blast, and thought I would share some snapshots of my time there. In completing the timeline I did realize just how clean and neat some of these web design features are becoming, in contrast to the wordpress site I had […]

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Food and Fuel

As of yet, both Britta and I have a decent amount of both primary and secondary sources to work with. I’ll start off with some information from Britta and then I’ll provide my own process so far. From Britta: Hey there, Britta here, taking over for a few paragraphs. The main focus for my portion […]

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Provincial Things

Hello, and welcome back. As of right now I’m more worried about the plethora of information at my fingertips than a lack of it. Having visited the Stevens County Historical Society today I can safely say there will be no shortage of both primary and secondary source material to scrounge around for in the archives.   Books, […]

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Welcome to Nowhere

My name is Colm Macnab and I’m a senior at the University of Minnesota, Morris. I’m a History major and will (hopefully/probably?) be graduating this semester with a bachelor of the arts as well as a minor in English. The town I live in, Morris, is incredibly small. In fact, the only two stoplights in the […]

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