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By Martin Keller
Note: This story originally appeared in the March 1997 issue of Minnesota Monthly.
The fog lifting out of the Minnesota River Valley in Chanhassen casts an enchanting veil over the faceless industrial lots and strip malls along Highway 5. Hoarfrost generously flocks every tree and signpost. At this moment, all the familiar suburban fixtures seem almost as wondrously strange as Paisley Park, the $10 million pyramid-roofed complex in their midst.
lt’s a couple of weeks before Christmas, and the huge film and audio recording center is uncharacteristically quiet. Most of the office staff is adjourned; only the occasional blast of a guitar lick or rhythm track can be heard from one of the studios, where the “house” band rehearses for upcoming television appearances in New York and a promised world tour later in the new year. A preppy-looking young man named Adam, employed as a personal attendant to the man Paisley Park staffers and others
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Through tears and triumphs, family farming endures. Its legacy extends far beyond the farm gate. Thomas Jefferson, in writing about the nation he helped establish, said that family farmers were the unbreakable backbone of democracy. 5:30 am, Apr. 20, 2021 ×
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Much-needed rainfall arrived just as many farmers began to fret about dry planting conditions in these parts. For the most part, spring wheat and oat planting appeared to be nearly done before the rain.
We returned to my old stomping grounds during Easter week. My roots run deep here in the Minnesota River Valley with its mix of sandy and clay soil.
We need to acknowledge the Anishinaabeg people who first inhabited this northern land, including the Cree, Dakota, and Ojibwe. Further south and west from these northern areas were also the Sioux people. Beginning in the mid-1600, and continuing, at first slowly, throughout the 1700s and 1800s, people of European heritage began to investigate the land now known as Minnesota. It wasnât until the mid-1800s that the Arrowhead region saw settlements of white people take hold and grow. Beginning at that time, the Iron Ranges of Minnesota (Cuyuna, Vermilion, and Mesabi) would become the new home to over forty-five different European nationalities who settled here.