Ethnomusicology When I began Ethnomusicology classes at the University of Minnesota, I realized that I was a living specimen of our studies. Playing w...

People love to talk about the weather. If you are talking to someone with which you have nothing in common, there is always the weather. People are es...

My grandfather disappeared shortly after my father was born. This is a story about that !

In 1970’s, I took a job with the Great Northern Railroad during a period of rabid, corporate consolidation. Decisions are made on the basis of the bus...

One of many stories of my life on the Mississippi

In 1928 Saint Paul, Minnesota, my great uncle Frank Rothbauer ran afoul of the "Drys", the Federal enforcers of the Volstead Act prohibiting the sale ...