Deep-fried eelpout at the International Eelpout Festival, ca. 2010s. Photo by Josh Stokes

The DeGonda family in Le Sueur County, ca. 1916. In 1866, Mary Muggli DeGonda and her five surviving children emigrated from Graubünden to Minnesota. This photograph shows the siblings about fifty years later. Pictured are (left to right, back row): Gion Rest (John) DeGonda; Giachen Antoni (Jacob) DeGonda; and (left to right, front row): Onna Maria Turte (Mary Dorothy) DeGonda Freiberg; Rosa Martina (Rose) DeGonda Simonett; and Maria Aloisa (Louisa) DeGonda Joerg. From the Richard C. DeGonda family papers; used with the permission of Richard C. DeGonda.

Delos and Maud Hart Lovelace with daughter Merion, c.1931.

Demolition of the Met Center (Metropolitan Sports Center) in Bloomington, 1994. The stadium was demolished after the North Stars hockey team left Minnesota. A common refrain among North Stars fans, who blamed owner Norm Green for abandoning the state, was “Norm sucks.”