Once Upon a Towne

From the Preface: "Main Street on Sunday afternoon...the nostalgia of Saturday nights in rural Minnesota cities...the village park on the Fourth of July...the rollicking legends of a transplanted valley country of French-Canadians in Wisconsin....The story of a forgotten colony of Sioux who live on the Mississippi....The lore of a street in St. Paul whose most famous resident once was a naughty name....All these unfold among the pages that follow in Once Upon A Towne, a second collection published by Gareth D. Hiebert, who writes in the St. Paul Dispatch under thename of Oliver Towne. You'll ride in the cab of a diesel locomotive on the fastest scheduled passenger train run in the world....And stand on the iron ore docks at Lake Superior and watch the red gold pour into the holds of ships....There is a ride through the countryside in Autumn and a multitude of vignettes and true tales of Minnesota...."