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Chapter 1 - Burtons’ Logic
I have been walking around in adulthood for several years now and I must confess, since my arrival I have been rather disappointed. No, I...
H. Scott Palmer
Jun 24, 20247 min read
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Chapter 2 - Open-Faced, Cheese Spread, Potato Chip Sandwiches
Well, since the time of Burton, I have arrived and spent some time walking around in adulthood and upon my arrival and the aforementioned...
H. Scott Palmer
Jun 23, 20246 min read
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Chapter 3 - The Sandbakelse and Krumkake Chronicles
Adults yet still kids, possessors of keys and cars with the right to drive, drink, smoke, vote, and buy boats. I thought when I reached...
H. Scott Palmer
Jun 22, 20244 min read
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Chapter 4 - Rivals and Fools
When I was in high school – not yet an adult but beginning to hear the term “young adult” being used in describing my age group so I knew...
H. Scott Palmer
Jun 21, 20247 min read
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Chapter 5 - Gunner Tollefson Bat and Ball Control
Upon arriving in adulthood, I was excited to be a part of the great human system responsible for everything that the great humans who...
H. Scott Palmer
Jun 20, 202417 min read
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Chapter 6 - How Patience Valley Got It's Name
In the mid eighteen hundreds more Scandinavians including Norwegians began to move to the Midwest and into the newly formed states of...
H. Scott Palmer
Jun 19, 20248 min read
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Chapter 7 – Great Cop and Corn Cob Caper
In the small bars that still line the main street, whispers, gasps, quiet laughter, heads shake and nod when the subject of the “Great...
H. Scott Palmer
Jun 18, 20247 min read
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Chapter 8 - Hills, Valley’s, and Peppermint Schnapps
We didn’t take things too seriously and we stopped to have fun when and where fun and excitement came before us. Sometimes we just needed...
H. Scott Palmer
Jun 17, 20249 min read
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Chapter 9 - One way or Another, Things get Done, Usually, Elmon and Others
Burton was special yet not unique in bringing unique creativity and distinctiveness to our countryside and the surrounding communities,...
H. Scott Palmer
Jun 16, 20247 min read
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