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Rice County and Faribault Historical Photographs
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The Farm of my Great-Great-Grandparents
My mother gave me a beautiful photograph of her maternal great-grandparents’ farm near Sac City, Iowa. It was enclosed in an old frame that needed a little work, but the frame was definitely worth the love. It had a curved glass front and a raised pattern design around the outside. The photograph had been colorized…
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Alf’s Remarkable Journey
Most people my age understand that Alf travelled from Melmac to Los Angeles back in 1986, but did you know after the Melmacians “beamed” Alf back aboard their spaceship, he escaped and crash landed again in Southern Minnesota? It was at that point, he made it his mission to travel around the world, meet new…
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Never Discount a Creative Fix
Probably more on the insanity side, but back about 17 years ago, we had a couple of hot-swappable fans go out on a Compaq Proliant ML370 file server that handled file and print sharing at one of our school buildings. If the fans didn’t spin, the motherboard knew it, and refused to go past the…