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Joy Riggs is the author of Crackerjack Bands and Hometown Boosters: The Story of a Minnesota Music Man (Nodin Press, 2019). She grew up in Alexandria, Minnesota, and graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1990 with a bachelor’s degree in news-editorial journalism. She specializes in writing about history, travel, and caregiving. Her award-winning columns, essays, and articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Catamaran Literary Reader, Months to Years, Hippocampus Magazine, HerStry, the Manifest-Station, and the Minnesota Star Tribune. She lives in Northfield, Minnesota. For more of her writing, visit https://www.joyriggs.com/. ...more

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A Return to the Blog and to Cemetery Visits

It's been years — truly — since I last wrote a blog entry. So long, in fact, that I wasn't sure I still had the ability to blog on this platform. But I've been thinking lately about how keeping up a blog for 10 years (from 2010-2020) gave me regular motivation to write and accountability for sharing my writing. It was also extremely helpful when I started researching the lives of my paternal great Read more of this blog post »

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