From the editorial: “Without the rebellious heart, without people who understand that there’s no sacrifice we can make that is too great to retrieve that which we’ve lost,” he said with poetic grace in 2017. “We will forever be distracted with possessions and trinkets and title.”
“The Covenant” currently has an 81% approval rating among critics and a 98% approval rating among audiences at Rotten Tomatoes, a review-aggregation website for film and television.
From the editorial: Ending segregation in our schools was the right thing to do. So is ensuring that elementary school students get to learn that it happened with help from a 6-year-old girl with a white ribbon in her hair.
A piece of land next to Garland's childhood home in Grand Rapids was at risk of being lost to commercial development. "It was a shocker," the museum's executive director said about the $45,000 Superior Choice Credit Union donation that made the purchase possible.
The exhibit, a celebration of childhood memorabilia from the late '70s and early '80s, is open now at the Goodhue County History Center in Red Wing, Minnesota.
The romantic comedy about a couple who meet at a hockey game was entirely filmed on location. Production insider Riki McManus described it as "a love story to Duluth."
The author of the humorous "visitor's guide," first published in 1987, has died at 83. Some aspects of the book are dated, but many of Mohr's insights remain as relevant as ever.