Little Falls

The ones who were not careful enough, or not skilled enough, or simply unlucky did not have long careers.

Charles Lindbergh was born in Detroit and raised in Little Falls, Minnesota, the son of a congressman of the same name.

He was a mechanical kid from the beginning, the kind who took apart the family automobile to understand how the carburetor worked.

He enrolled at the University of Wisconsin to study engineering, but college could not hold him.

That's McLeod County.

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

Glenwood, we had 175.

That's Pope County.

Charles Lindbergh arrived at a flying school in Lincoln, Nebraska in the spring of 1922.

He was twenty years old, grew up in Little Falls, Minnesota, the son of a congressman, mechanically minded, restless.

The kind of restless that needs a destination.

He went to Lincoln to learn to fly.

Fair

... who grew up in Little Falls, Minnesota, not born here.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Minnesota is Louise Erdrich, who's really more fiction now.

I think we think of her fiction from Little Falls, Minnesota, and then Robert Bly, your lover, is from Madison, his glorious morning snake.

And then are you ready for the New York list? Oh, I don't

know if I can

And, um, I was a banking brat, and my dad moved into Minnesota at some point when I was, like, eight or nine, and, um, or the, they, the whole family did.

And we moved to Alexandria, Sartell, and so on, and they moved out to Royalton, Little Falls, all this.

And in Little Falls, you could be a 98-year-old implant and still not feel like you're from there.

Am I right? I'm sorry.

But yeah.

How so?

I mean, I think... [scoffs] I don't know.

I don't, I, I don't really know how to put it into words, but yeah, like, I, like Heidi, I live in Little Falls.

Well, my name's Janice Kowalski.

I'm from Little Falls, Minnesota.

And I was a school teacher until I stumbled upon this elevated style of living.

And I decided to, you know, join up.