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Larry Lee Hofmann was born March 19, 1952 to Rudolph and Esther (Reich) Hofmann in Medina, ND. He passed away on July 27, 2021, in Minot, ND, due to complications from Covid-19.
Larry grew up on the family farm and went to school in Medina, graduating from Medina High School in 1970. He then attended Interstate Business College in Fargo, ND, graduating in 1972 with an Associates Degree in Accounting. He joined the National Guard in 1973 and was honorably discharged in 1977. He was employed as Office Manager at Country Boy Dairy and as Office Manager and in Sales at Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and Westward Products, all in Jamestown. He also worked several years for Charles T. Davis Trucking, both as a driver and doing general truck and diesel engine repair. He started Hofmann Trucking, LLC, along with Curt Waldie on July 1, 1999. They have expanded the company to now include two locations in North Dakota and one in Douglas, Wyoming.
physical problems, mental problems, loneliness, it s devastating. at the macro level it s maybe been worse and it s the trump phenomenon. if you look back at the 2016 republican primaries, the area where trump really did well were areas that had low social capital. he did not perform well in those primaries with people who joined bowling leagues or regularly attended church. then if you look at trump s actual, you know, presidency and attempt to get re-elected, michael bender s new book documents what he calls these front row joes, the people who almost like in grateful dead like fashion followed trump around the country and they built a community and donald trump actually gave them hope and purpose. and that s in michael bender s new book. he documents that, i think pretty well by talking to these folks. and then we get to a point where
we want to have you back. thank you so much. very interesting research. good to see you. thank you for caring. shannon: here is another piece of it. what about the loss of what one a sociologist referred to as mediating institutions in our society? the churches, rotary clubs, girl and boy scouts. since the beginning of america these were the bedrock subcommunities as villages and towns popped up across the country, churches and libraries and those were their centers but not have taken a backseat for what many prefer in these social media community that often ends up leaving them, feeling more detached than anything else. former governor of arkansas mike huckabee on this part of that, the bowling leagues and all these institutions that still exist but they have far less emphasis in our
i doubt whether anyone does. if do you you re a true genius. there are no more neutral corners in america. like what we re doing right now establishing eye contact, there s very little eye contact left in america. we don t know each other. we don t know our neighbors. we grow increasingly isolated in our little family units. we don t know who lives next door or upstairs. we don t converse any more with one another. what do we do about that? in the last 65 years average new home construction size has grown three and a half from 700 square feet to 2400 square feet. we re the richest people in the world. but your less happy if you live farther away from your neighbors. when you say you have to sit and talk like this. everybody knows bowling alone 20 years ago people were bowling but bowling leagues have declined. that was true in institutional