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Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range
Overburden Modern Life on the Iron RangeWinner of the 2008 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award By Aaron Brown A 21st century memoir of a place and a people: (Buy now on Amazon or BN.com) — The IronRange is a string of blue collar towns along an iron formation in northern Minnesota, many of which formed in…
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Super secret sneak preview copies available for ‘Overburden’
Shhh! It’s a secret. Copies of my new book “Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range” are available at Howard Street Booksellers in Hibbing, Northern Lights bookstore in Duluth’s Canal Park and the Duluth Barnes and Noble. Other stores will be on board soon. This book is a collection of essays and observations about life…
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‘Overburden’ has arrived
The first shipment of my new book “Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range” has arrived on the Iron Range. You will begin seeing copies in local book stores, including Hibbing’s Howard Street Booksellers and Duluth’s Barnes and Noble and Northern Lights book stores over the next few days (among many others). Our official opening…
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Heffernan is back, with book and blog
Last June I wrote about the unfortunate separation between the Duluth News Tribune and its longtime columnist Jim Heffernan, who had previously worked for decades in the DNT’s newsroom. We have not heard the end of Mr. Heffernan. In fact, he’ll be joining me in the northern Minnesota blogsphere and writing a monthly column for…
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"Overburden" piling up
My new book “Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range” continues to move through its final stages of print preparation. Today we shot the cover photograph up at the Hull Rust mine view in Hibbing. Unlike Bill O’Reilly, I am not the dominant element of of my book’s cover photo. My oldest son Henry, age…
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City Pages reports on Iron Range past, present
I’m not sure what drew them to us, but City Pages — the Twin Cities’ alt weekly — profiles a snippet of Iron Range history and provides a surprisingly detailed look at new nonferrous mineral mining technology on the East Range in this week’s web edition. The history portion in particular puts a bit of…