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COLUMN: Bob Dylan at 70
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, May 22, 2011 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Bob Dylan at 70By Aaron J. Brown On Tuesday, the Hibbing kid once known as Bobby Zimmerman turns 70. We’re not sure where Bob Dylan will be on his birthday. Probably not here, though that’d be nice. Bob…
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COLUMN: To fly a kite among the tamaracks
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, May 15, 2011 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. To fly a kite among the tamaracksBy Aaron J. Brown For most people flying a kite is a childhood activity. I hold some vague memory of owning a kite as a kid, sailing it over the treetops in…
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COLUMN: The typewriter is dead; we are not
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, May 8, 2011 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. The typewriter is dead; we are notBy Aaron J. Brown Artifact. This word conjures a dusty old object in a museum. The more imaginative among us might picture Indiana Jones running from a giant boulder to acquire that…
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COLUMN: I have seen the future — in a mall
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, May 1, 2011 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. I feel a little sheepish putting this out there after last week’s episode of South Park, but what can a guy do about that? I have seen the future – in a mallBy Aaron J. Brown We recently…
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COLUMN: Grow, baby, grow: a backyard beginning
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, April 24, 2011 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Happy Easter! Grow, baby, grow: a backyard beginningBy Aaron J. Brown For most of my life I’ve lived on one side of the yet unresolved battle between man and nature. Ever residing within the natural splendor of northern…
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COLUMN: Old school without even trying
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, April 17, 2011 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Old school without even tryingBy Aaron J. Brown It happened, like many things, in Target. A good marketer can tell you that there’s an innate difference in the aesthetics between major retailers like Target and Wal-Mart. These cathedrals…
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COLUMN: Mr. Apple lives forever
This is my weekly column that ran in the Saturday, April 9, 2011 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. I was bumped off the Sunday page for a large number of letters to the editor. Mr. Apple lives foreverBy Aaron J. Brown I’m learning that life’s challenges wait in the misty valley between things you…
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COLUMN: Today’s Range pioneers must break the circle
This is my weekly column from the Sunday, April 3, 2011 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Today’s Range pioneers must break the circle By Aaron J. Brown No position, no land, no political condition may be defended indefinitely. Always in history the walls fall, the barbarians throw open the gates. The same is true…
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COLUMN: The numbers don’t lie
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, March 27, 2011 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. The numbers don’t lieBy Aaron J. Brown The 2010 U.S. Census released its report for the state of Minnesota earlier this month. The findings were not a surprise. Implications abound for those of us who live in northern…
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The day Rocky came to breakfast
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, March 20, 2011 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. The day Rocky came to breakfast By Aaron J. Brown Many different woodland creatures live in northern Minnesota but these creatures are knowable, just as the people of a city can be known to the advantage of the…
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COLUMN: To those who would divide us, remember the Sneetches
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, March 13, 2011 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. To those who would divide us, remember the SneetchesBy Aaron J. Brown People could once disagree about politics and still share a meal without posing an existential threat to each other. Generations of resentful Midwesterners have done just…
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COLUMN: The deceptive numbers of late winter
This is my column for the Sunday, March 6, 2011 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. The deceptive numbers of late winterBy Aaron J. BrownI froze my fingertips on the gas pump the other day. The temperature was colder than expected, the gas prices higher. It is not the numbers that get you. It is…
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COLUMN: Pioneering Range leader speaks of history, hard times
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Some additional notes that didn’t make the cut for print are at the end. Pioneering Range leader speaks of history, hard timesBy Aaron J. Brown In 1978 women had been working at Iron Range mines for just a…
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COLUMN: When a mining town disappears
This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. When a mining town disappearsBy Aaron J. Brown When you think of a website you don’t imagine permanence. You imagine something fleeting, changing, soon to be buried by the past. My first website was on the old GeoCities…
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COLUMN: Rest not easy in these modern times, but welcome them
This is my column for the Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Rest not easy in these modern times, but welcome themBy Aaron J. Brown The winter presses on, a dry, cold march through snow to the oil tank to see if we’ll make it another couple months without ordering fuel…