COLUMNS
Book Report: Murder mystery, romance revolves in Amish community
Forty years ago, when Amish families began buying up farms in western Wisconsin, my father wasn’t too enthused. He owned a business on Main Street in Whitehall, and worried that the incursion of buggies, beards and black bonnets might hurt his business.
By Dave Wood, columnist , October 05, 2011
Book Report: These two works double my pleasure
Today, two books about two very different men who were born not very far from my own natal place.
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 30, 2011
Book Report: Past U.S. leader rises from the dust heap; Red Wing author composes second work in series
I’ve never thought much about our 20th American president, James Garfield.
September 23, 2011
Book Report: Area authors make good in the world of literature
Long, long ago, Sinclair Lewis wrote an essay entitled “The Long Arm of the Small Town,” in which he admitted that he had left his natal place, Sauk Centre, Minn., but that it was always with him as he went on to become the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 19, 2011
COLUMN: Happy days are here again
This is a landmark year for me: it represents the very first time that all of my children will be in school full-time.
By By Julia Ybarra-Young , September 01, 2011
COLUMN: Staging garage sales: not for the faint of heart 
After many, many, MANY times of saying we need to get rid of some stuff, I finally caved in.
By By Julia Ybarra-Young , August 18, 2011
Book Report: Young adult novels good for a change
In 2003, I had the privilege to speak at a very fine writers’ conference in Eau Claire.
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 12, 2011
Book Report: Mystery or poetry? Take your pick
Tired of crime novels set in Frisco, The Big Apple, LA?
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 05, 2011
COLUMN: Surviving the summer vacation
Summer is officially here. That means the kids are home. All ... day ... long.
By By Julia Ybarra-Young , July 08, 2011
Book Report: This week there’s a moonshine mess, a terrier’s tale
Up in Stearns County they still talk about a moonshine operation called, I believe, “Minnesota 101,” which made hooch so good that it continued in operation years after Prohibition was repealed.
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 29, 2011
Book Report: Adolescent’s recipes, school ma’am’s memories fit the bill this week
Milkweed Editions of Minneapolis has figured out a way to kill two birds with one stone.
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 23, 2011
Book Report: Let’s hear it for those alternative printing sites
Thank goodness for university presses. While the big New York publishers languish, academic presses previously concerned with arcane subject matter have again and again taken up the slack and published books for the general reader. The University of Minnesota Press is one such establishment.
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 16, 2011
COLUMN: These are the times that try driver’s souls
When gas was $3.13 per gallon, I drove my four kids on day trips every week during the summer.
By By Julia Ybarra-Young , June 03, 2011
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