A Skunk, a Woodpile, Dynamite, and Rural Kids

From LakesnWoods.com's Sauk Centre Gallery: 'Main Street, Sauk Centre, Minnesota, 1930s'.

I Googled Sauk Centre history this week.

I learned that the Minnesota Historical Society's website has back issues of our town's Sauk Centre Herald — and an impressive set of records connected with the Sauk Centre Home School for Girls, AKA Minnesota Correctional Facility-Sauk Centre.

Focusing on conventional publications, government officials, and their institutions, has some merit.

But so does remembering what happened when schoolkids found a skunk in a woodpile.

A literal skunk in an actual woodpile....

More at A Catholic Citizen in America.

(Bringing explosives to school: cultural and historical context. Or: what happened when kids found a skunk in a woodpile.)

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