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Suddenly at Home

Kinda Different Posted on 2020-03-30 by kdawson2020-03-31

I have begun a new com­mu­ni­ty blog for these quar­an­tined times: Sud­den­ly at Home aims to cap­ture, through a mul­ti­tude of voic­es of our Twin Cities neigh­bors, the day-to-day real­i­ties of the pro­longed shel­ter­ing-at-home and … ‣ more…

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Tracking Down Minnesota’s “Doughnut Cities”

Kinda Different Posted on 2019-10-06 by kdawson2020-12-08

This does not hap­pen in Mass­a­chu­setts. There, cities and towns tile the coun­ties and the state: they do not over­lap. Min­neso­ta is kin­da dif­fer­ent. In this state, eleven cities are com­plete­ly enclosed with­in the lim­its … ‣ more…

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Aldus, Bembo, and the Semicolon

Kinda Different Posted on 2019-08-06 by kdawson2019-08-07

The semi­colon was invent­ed in 1494. I got to research­ing its cre­ators; this inves­ti­ga­tion uncov­ered con­nec­tions to the Uni­ver­si­ty of Min­neso­ta, the Min­neapo­lis Star-Tri­bune, and my own career. The semicolon’s inven­tors were three Ital­ian Renais­sance … ‣ more…

Posted in Career, History | 3 Replies

The River’s Source, Part 2

Kinda Different Posted on 2019-07-31 by kdawson2019-08-01

The source of the Mis­sis­sip­pi Riv­er has resist­ed being pinned down over cen­turies of time and count­less expe­di­tions of dis­cov­ery. In the pre­vi­ous post we dug into the decades-long polit­i­cal and geo­graph­ic con­fu­sion that result­ed … ‣ more…

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The River’s Source, Part 1

Kinda Different Posted on 2019-07-29 by kdawson2019-08-01

The source of the Mis­sis­sip­pi Riv­er is the stuff of leg­ends. Let’s exca­vate them a bit. Last time out we fol­lowed the Rev. William Boutwell as he accom­pa­nied an expe­di­tion that iden­ti­fied the source of the … ‣ more…

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A Tale of Two Boutwells

Kinda Different Posted on 2019-07-20 by kdawson2019-07-27

The Rev­erend William Thurston Boutwell has been in the Twin City news late­ly, as his house near Still­wa­ter MN was saved from demo­li­tion and is being ren­o­vat­ed. The name “Boutwell” imme­di­ate­ly caught my eye because … ‣ more…

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Venerable Hole in the Wall

Kinda Different Posted on 2019-07-13 by kdawson2019-07-14

Recent­ly my wife got me over to Al’s Break­fast in Dinky­town, as she has been want­i­ng to do since before we moved here.  The place is a time cap­sule from its found­ing in 1950. Katharyn occa­sion­al­ly … ‣ more…

Posted in Breakfast, Restaurants | 7 Replies

Can’t Get There From Here

Kinda Different Posted on 2019-07-08 by kdawson2019-07-25

Fol­low along as we ven­ture down a long and twisty Trail of explo­ration of a most­ly for­got­ten era in motor­ing his­to­ry: when no roads had num­bers but some had mar­ket­ing names. How many have heard the … ‣ more…

Posted in Driving, Exploring, Transportation | 6 Replies

Sorting All the Saint Anthonys

Kinda Different Posted on 2019-07-03 by kdawson2020-03-08

Ever won­der about the var­i­ous places named Saint Antho­ny strewn about the Twin Cities? I have long been con­fused by the many lev­els of names, offi­cial and unof­fi­cial, for areas and neigh­bor­hoods here­abouts. Allow me … ‣ more…

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Four Years of Kinda Different

Kinda Different Posted on 2019-06-27 by kdawson2021-01-02

Today marks the fourth anniver­sary of this blog’s first post: 4 years and 5 days after we closed on our St. Paul house, and 4 years and 16 days after we arrived in the Cities, … ‣ more…

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  • The River’s Source, Part 1 2019-07-29
  • A Tale of Two Boutwells 2019-07-20
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