There’s a human skeleton in the basement of the Historical Museum in Northfield, Minnesota. It was displayed, years ago, in a glass-topped coffin. That’s when the museum thought that it was Charlie Pitts, who robbed banks with Jesse James. Now DNA testing says otherwise. According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the skeleton isn’t Charlie. […]
For years a lone wolf nicknamed “Old Three Legs” worried the citizens of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. He ate chickens, mostly, but some believed that he was a potential child-chewer, and his knack of not getting shot made him more fearsome. “Hunting parties of hundreds could not bring him down,” reads a lurid report on WDAY-TV, […]
An article in the New York Times singled out SPAM — America’s iconic mystery meat — as “perhaps the emblematic hard-times food in the American pantry.” It then suggested that the economic collapse was good news for SPAM workers in Austin, Minnesota, since penny-pinching Americans will be more apt to eat what they produce. We […]
super-rare corpse flower — one of only 140 in the world, according to an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel — is about to bloom at the Milwaukee Public Museum.
