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It has been interesting to read recent opinion pieces regarding our electric grid and the role of solar and wind power. I doubt that many of the writers truly understand the benefits of solar and the downside.
I have a second home at the end of the Arrowhead Trail in northern Minnesota. The closest electric pole is 16 miles away, forcing each home to either run a generator or use solar, wind or both to get electricity. I started my solar journey 16 years ago. The initial investment was substantial ($21,000), as you literally become your own utility company. I m on my third generation of batteries for storage of energy, upgrading to three 48-volt lithium batteries at a cost of $5,000 each and increasing the number of solar panels from eight to 16. Why? Around half of Minnesota days are cloudy. Wit
After she graduated from Ottumwa High School, she was hired to teach music in the district.
Her supervisor was Frances Clark, who “learned of my ambition to ‘elevate the stage,’” she wrote in 1925. Clark persuaded Inskeep she didn’t need to go to college at Northwestern since she’d already had so much experience directing choirs and “you get such lovely music” from the children she taught.
From Ottumwa, Inskeep went to Sioux Falls, S.D., where she taught for two years before moving to Cedar Rapids in 1903.
The Sioux Falls newspaper reported Inskeep would be paid $80 a month in her new job, or $15 more than she was earning in Sioux Falls.