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From Slave to Emancipator

About 70 miles north of Hannibal, Missouri, the Mississippi floodplain is bisected by a five-mile wide valley carved by the Des Moines River. South of the river is the State of Missouri; north is Iowa. It’s a scenic area but not especially remarkable. The Missouri side has a couple of Fireworks super stores, while the [...]

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Far North, Part 2

About twenty miles from Angle Inlet, the only town in the Northwest Angle, the sealed road ends and you jostle and bump along a wide gravel surface the rest of the way. This is better than the way things used to be. There was no all-season road before 1969. The Angle may seem remote, but [...]

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Far North, Part 1

If don’t remember the shape of the State of Minnesota, glance at the map I posted and look at the very top. You’ll notice a small part, roughly in the shape of a chimney or a partly smashed top hat, that extends farther north than the rest of Minnesota, which is known as the Northwest [...]

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