Got my photos developed from my ancestor hunt to Lake Pepin. The black and white roll didn’t come out, because the nine-year-old roll of TMAX has ripped sprocket holes, so the roll never advanced. I suspected this might’ve been the case when I rewound the film. Oh, well. Click below to take a look… Sea Wing [...]

David Wethern and family Part II: Red Wing, Minnesota On the short drive from Diamond Bluff to Red Wing, MN, I kept my eyes peeled for the Border Lounge in Hager City, as per my friend Scot’s recommendation. Alas, it was closed, depriving me of the chance to spend my Sunday afternoon watching strippers. Maybe next [...]

July 13, 1890 Captain David Wethern’s ship, The Sea Wing, capsizes in a storm on Lake Pepin, a wide section of the Missisippi River that borders Minnesota and Wisconsin. 98 passengers drown, including David Wethern’s wife Nellie and son Purley. The Sea Wing Disaster was one of the worst maritime disasters to happen on inland [...]

In which I wander my college town alone, several years later, and get all reflective ‘n’ stuff…  

In which I have an all-too-brief visit with family and revisit my college town…

In which I embark on a short pilgrimage to my homeland to reach my fingers into the soil, pull out the roots of a relationship, and gain perspective… I meant to post this yesterday, but I didn’t have time. It was going to be a “Happy Cinco de Mayo” post. Sort of. May 5th, 2008, marks the [...]

Just finished enjoying some lovely weather in College Station, Texas, where GTC Dramatic Dialogues performed at Texas A&M’s main campus on Monday night. We returned just in time for some lovely weather here in Minneapolis yesterday. The show was the “Sex & Drugs” show, which is a hybrid of our drug & alcohol show and [...]

Went to Winona and back Monday night For what’s probably my last GTC show until the Fall orientation tour. The school: St. Mary’s University. The show: Another “Strange Like Me” (the diversity show) We had our newly hired moderator in tow so he could observe. He had many, many questions. St. Mary’s theatre facilities impressed [...]

Riding in the back seat, On the road from Duluth to Minneapolis. Jen is cocooned to my right, listening to her iPod. Michael’s driving, Toussaint’s shotgun. The moon is pretty near full, And we’re bathed in moonlight that competes with the glare of my Blackberry screen. The highway hurtles into our headlights from the darkness [...]

In Carbondale, Illinois, for a GTC overnight. Performing “Strange Like Me” for SIU School of Medicine. Thanks to steroids, my skin has mostly recovered from an allergic reaction to medication, So I’m not a hideous, speckled monster for the show. Still, it’s good that this is the diversity show, And not the one with all [...]