Kids and quality of life in the West Have you ever noticed you are around something a lot, but you don’t notice it? Then, once you notice, you can’t help but notice it every time. That happened to me this summer. We shifted our focus this summer from hiking and...
Saturday Snapshot It’s tough not to go outside while social-distancing. Here’s one place that’s open for you to get out. It could be why so many families are taking advantage of warm afternoons to do a little exploring and learning. Many families go...
Museums get a bad rap. They can be dark, dank, dull, dusty and a place where kids avoid. Not this one. Overlooking the historic Dunn County valley is the Dunn County Museum. It is bright, clean and fun. The museum folks cater to children. During the school year,...
Fort Union, a break from Wilderness survival This isn’t the 21st Century — it’s life in the early 19th Century. Hundreds of men and women left their isolation and separation to endure and survive inhuman conditions.. They trudged and floated to a...
“I remember back in the day when I was a kid, we had to walk five miles to school, through a raging blizzard……. ” And so the stories went for years and years as many of us grew up and heard our parents, or grandparents, or...