Tag: John Straight
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White Earth (2)
Saturday, 7 January, 2017 — White Earth Reservation, Minnesota At this time of year the sun sets early. John Straight is looking forward to it because that’s the time when he has decided to wrap things up here and call it a day. Sitting in the big Wigwam Room—as Mary calls it—of the Community College…
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White Earth
Wednesday, 4 January, 2017 — Detroit Lakes and White Earth Reservation, Minnesota The bus slows down and turns carefully, stopping at a little strip-mall that’s just separated from Highway 10 by a slender strip of grass. As it squeals and sighs to a halt, John Straight gets out of his seat and only then lifts…
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John Straight
December, 2016 — Minneapolis, Minnesota The Hawthorne neighborhood in the Near North of Minneapolis is a square mile bisected from south to north by the ten lanes of I-94 and bounded on the east by the great Mississippi, already five hundred feet wide less than two hundred miles from its origins. Even before the War…
The Wolverine Truck Stop and Motor Lodge 