Glenwood

No,

you get that feeling like, you know, these people and I, I kind of mentioned to my husband grew up in Glenwood, Minnesota, and his friend Mark Shea, they own the funeral home.

So we've been over there a couple times, you know, on a holiday when he's like, Oh, gotta go.

And he's like, going next door.

Who makes breading mixes that's equally good for meat, vegetables, and other creative things in the kitchen.

Then Rolling Forks Vineyard up in Glenwood.

They're using Minnesota-grown grapes.

They are international award-winning on their wines and really challenging the assumptions that people make about Midwestern wines and Minnesota wines.

Wow.

Mm-hmm.

I would just – if you're not going to be able to come to Feast to try their wines, that driving to Glenwood, it is a gorgeous spot.

In part because of the timing of opening up during the pandemic, they hadn't planned to build this wonderful patio looking out over the lake as part of the initial winery.

So did you grow up in Nashville or?

No, I'm actually originally from Glenwood, Minnesota, a little town of 2000 people in central Minnesota.

And I moved here right after high school and ended up going to college here in You know, found a girl that grew up here and, you know, just Nashville is such a great place to live.

I love the culture and climate and opportunities and so on.

So this is, in some ways, also an origin story of the US candy trade.

We'll start with Franklin Clarence Mars, who was born on September 24th, 1883, in Glenwood, Minnesota.

Some accounts say he was born in Hancock, Minnesota.

That's a little more than 27 miles west of Glenwood.

And then others say that it was in nearby Newport, Minnesota.

You might even see other neighboring towns cited as well.

Little Falls, Minnesota, which is Morrison County, we had 150 there.

Glenwood, we had 175.

That's Pope County.

Uh, we had 300 people show up in Alexandria, which is Douglas County.