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I grew up outdoors on a Minnesota farm in the 1950’s not far from the novel’s fictional Alton County. My off-farm education included a vocational high school and then history degrees from Macalester College and the University of Minnesota. Despite the credentials of a professor, I ditched an academic career to conduct public affairs for various corporate, non-profit and government agencies without losing my rural roots and sensibilities.

My parents read to me as a child, my mother was a librarian, and from them I learned that books were portals to worlds far beyond our farm. From neighbors who were second-generation Americans, I heard the vernacular literature of stories well-told over coffee.

I believe writers work from the same urge that
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I’ve Gone to Substack: Alton County Statesman

I have moved my on-line writing to Substack. Weekly I post a 600–800-word story drawn from growing up on a Minnesota farm in the 1950s. That is an era now long gone and forgotten. Yet it was fruitful time in an age before cable news, the internet, cell phones and Instagram. It was anything but a digital age.

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