by Timothy Christian | Mar 24, 2022 | Mary's childhood
A Saturday morning in May, tra-la A Saturday morning in May No lessons, and birds shouting ”Spring” tra-la The garden and trees tendering, tra-la The sounds of the town far away. The sun has pulled off Earth’s thick blanket of sloth The beasts in the loam Build a...
by Timothy Christian | Mar 23, 2022 | Mary's childhood
Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe, stand in the center of Mary’s hometown of Bemidji, Minnesota, signifying the importance of the lumber industry. Mary escaped from the land of the lumberjacks to pursue her dream of becoming a journalist. Share...
by Timothy Christian | Mar 20, 2022 | Mary's childhood
Mary’s father, Thomas (Tom) Welsh, was a college-educated lumberman who could recite Hamlet by heart. Tom used the steamboat Northland to pull log booms across Leech Lake, and the boat ferried passengers on excursions across the lake on weekends. Mary spent her...
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