“Mr. Hatterby was handsome and had more than once charmed a young lass out of her knickers. Everyone in Stillwater said his wife, Millicent Hatterby, was ‘touched’ and, worse, had been a poor mother to their daughter, Angel.”
—STILLWATER by Nicole Helget
“One question of some delicacy immediately arose for her, as it had for newly elected female legislators a few years earlier: where to go to bathroom in the capitol? Architect Cass Gilbert’s elegant statehouse design did not anticipate the need for facilities for both genders in the judicial or legislative suites.”
—HER HONOR: ROSALIE WAHL AND THE MINNESOTA WOMEN’S MOVEMENT by Lori Sturdevant
“Majority ruled—since the Twins were terrible we figured we could get into the new stadium for even less than nine bucks. We crammed the grill into the trunk and drove downtown. The game was in the fourth inning by the time we parked and walked to the stadium. The cheapest seats from the ticket window were twenty-five dollars. The cheapest seats from scalpers were fifteen. Eh.”
—THE DEVIL’S SNAKE CURVE: A FAN’S NOTES FROM LEFT FIELD by Josh Ostergaard
“Hilma was opposed not only to smoking and drinking but to frivolous laughter and members of the Lutheran church. She turned down one man for being Lutheran. ‘Da Lutrans make a big show of church on Sundays, but da rest of da veek, vatch out.’ Hilma, who was the only member of her Swedish clan born in America, nonetheless had the thickest Scandinavian accent of her surviving sisters.”
—ZENITH CITY: STORIES FROM DULUTH by Michael Fedo
“I received a call from a person a few years back. He began by saying that what he was about to tell me would be hard to believe. Mind-blowing. He cautioned that I might consider him a kook … He called to tell me that he had seen an Ivory-billed Woodpecker. In St. Paul.”
—THE THREE MINUTE OUTDOORSMAN: WILD SCIENCE FROM MAGNETIC DEER TO MUMBLING CARP by Robert M. Zink
