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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 parenting. Her award-winning columns, essays, and articles have appeared in numerous publications, including the Hippocampus, HerStry, the Manifest-Station, Minnesota Parent, the Star Tribune, and the Des Moines Register. She lives in Northfield, Minnesota. For more of her writing, visit https://www.joyriggs.com/. ...more

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Happy Milestone Birthday - 150 Years!

November 26, 2020, will be long remembered as the year of the pandemic Thanksgiving. The date coincided with another momentous occasion, but because of COVID-19, I wasn't able to celebrate it as I would have liked: it was the 150th birthday of my paternal great-grandfather, G. Oliver Riggs.

The earliest photo I've found so far of G. Oliver, left, with his younger sister Daisy

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