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The Minnesota woman behind iconic sod house photo has quite the tale

Beret Olsdatter Hagebak spent 31 of her 93 years in that soddy out on the prairie, 140 miles west of Minneapolis. At 90, Carol Hagebak Olson is losing her eyesight. But one image remains clear in her ... read more

Sod house on the prairie: Hunter man's mother was girl in iconic homestead photo

HUNTER, N.D. — Growing up, Donald Aune would hear stories from his mother about the sod house ... the house has become a symbol of the Homestead Act that opened up land in the West for thousands of pi... read more

Minnesota Scary

If the Palmer House is the most famous haunted site in Minnesota ... Ave legend has to do with the building’s former self: the great Art Deco Greyhound Bus Center that opened on Seventh Street in 1937 ... read more

Irish Town Stands Up to Big Seaweed

Photo courtesy of Bantry Bay Save Our Kelp Forest ... Using this method to harvest wild seaweeds growing along an uneven seabed has the potential to also remove a greater section of each seaweed (dama... read more

A small-town couple left behind a stolen painting worth over $100 million - and a big mystery

Did the quiet ... The older woman floors the accelerator, crashing into Lou and killing him. Then the two speed off, leaving behind "absolutely no clues which police could use to even begin a search f... read more

A Blacklisted Film and the New Cold War

Instead, last week, Senate Judiciary Committee members sat in rapt attention as hedge-fund operator William Browder wowed them with a reprise of his Magnitsky tale ... Behind the Scenes,” at the Newse... read more

Theater: Outstate shows in Minnesota

Sod House Productions Excuse the editorial ... building them on-site. Reuler’s idea has worked out quite well. This week, they’ve brought in Jevetta and Jearlyn Steele, with Izzy Monk and a few other ... read more

The US Congress Anti-Science Committee

And not just because of what he said, but also because he is a member of the House Science, Space ... Men who think global warming is a fantasy. Men who think women have magic vaginas. Men who think t... read more

Fall is the time to prepare your home for winter

Along with kitchens, they're the most-used rooms in the house. That's prompted manufacturers of home goods ... It was like he was basically wishing it away. Now he has a huge mess on his hands." Inste... read more

Film Review: ‘The House of Tomorrow’

Yesteryear’s vision of the future proves poor preparation for present-day reality in “The House ... be quite so naive about everything outside their little woodsy Minnesota domain. After all, Sebastia... read more

Man in famous 'Grace' photo mystifies historians

The man behind the giant ... the picture up in his house and that brought severe recriminations upon him from this (ex-wife.)" Famous nobody Ironically, for someone who has left no family or known his... read more

Future Twin Cities: What Life Will Look Like in 2040 and Beyond

Bring the ratio of bike commuters who are women to half. Complete an average of 20 miles ... Add 536 new miles in the county by 2040. Minnesota has consistently been a net exporter of labor—except in ... read more