A Skunk, a Woodpile, Dynamite, and Rural Kids
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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