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Walking Around...


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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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