You can visit plenty of places where presidents were born – but only one where a president started life over again.
A large black cross scars the page for February 14 in Theodore Roosevelt’s diary for the year 1884. On that day, the young New York State legislator lost both his mother and his wife, Alice, the latter to a kidney ailment just one day after the birth of the couple’s daughter. Beneath the cross Roosevelt wrote, “The light has gone out of my life.”
Corne and Conny van Bedaf’s ambition couldn’t fit in the Netherlands. The Dutch couple wanted a larger dairy farm, but so small and densely packed a country offers little real estate for cattle. You cannot let Holsteins graze on the canals of Amsterdam, after all. They would block boat traffic.
Food that is good for you can also taste good. You may not believe this if you have only tried diet food which was made in a factory – or so devoid of flavor that it barely qualifies as food at all. But when your healthful meal is prepared by a family nurse practitioner, who has spent nearly one decade teaching nutrition and wellness, and who learned the art of cooking from her own mother, then you are certain to change your mind.
Go-karts, miniature golf, escape rooms, axe throwing and so much more – if it means family-friendly summertime fun, you will find it at Evergreen Fun Park in Park Rapids, Minnesota!
For a hefty chunk of my childhood, I played video games. I enjoyed nothing better than navigating stout plumbers across inhospitable landscapes, guiding chosen heroes along their quests to locate the fragments of divine MacGuffins, and forcing fantastic creatures to beat one another into mangled pulps.
The short drive to Wahpeton is worthwhile even if you only go to see Wahpper. At 25 tons and 40 feet long he is the largest channel catfish statue in the world, a monument to Wahpeton’s natural beauty who welcomes guests crossing the Red River from Minnesota. And he looks sharper than ever in his new coat of paint!