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Gary Heyn was raised on a family farm near Rochester Minnesota. As a boy he was fascinated by the stories of his Great Grandmother Lydia Heyn about the “olden days”. Those afternoons on the front porch sparked a life-long interest in history and genealogy.
He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota. In 2019 he retired as the Vice-President of Corporate Governance for Tolomatic a Minneapolis manufacturing company.
After retirement, he returned to the University of Minnesota to complete a degree in history. For a class in creative non-fiction writing he wrote several of the family stories in had been collecting as an essay for the class. The class’s positive reception to his assignment inspired him to continue.
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	Standing at the Grave: A Family's Journey from the Grand Duchy of Posen to the Prairies of North Dakota 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation

by Giles MacDonogh

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