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“At Least He Wasn’t a Finn”: The Forest Finn Coverup
September 23, 2023 By Ranae Hanson

Pictured here the immigrant Anderson Family: Bottom row – Lars, Mabel, and Lisa; Top row –  Mathew, Levi, and Alma The Mystery Even as children, my siblings and I knew we were mostly Norwegian. (We must have known we were legally Americans, but we never called ourselves that.) Our mother’s father (morfar in Norwegian) came […]

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Letting Go of 161
August 4, 2022 By Ranae Hanson

[This is a piece I wrote years ago that will not let go of me. I post it now in honor of my colleagues in Community Colleges who still welcome and love 161 or more students each term.] Letting Go of 161 I have just posted grades. The last of the 161. August 24th we […]

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Offer of Food to the Wild Ones
August 16, 2021 By Ranae Hanson

I asked a class of Minneapolis College students to find and watch a wild animal (or at least to remember watching one who was wild) and then to write about that being. Many returned with writings about squirrels – not red squirrels, not ground squirrels, not flying squirrels. No. Grey squirrels. City squirrels. I hope […]

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