Back in the summer of 1995 I was traveling with my family through the Navajo Reservation along Highway 160 in Arizona. We were making our way from the Grand Canyon towards the Four Corners before heading on to the Cliff Dwellings at Mesa Verde as part of an almost two week trip to the southwest. Somewhere [...]
Archive of entries posted on January 2010
Book: The Encyclopedia of Trains and Locomotives
Shortly after Christmas I was tipped off by a friend this book was in the bargain bin at Barnes and Noble. I had a gift card to a sport shop in that vicinity so I quickly headed out, swung by B&N and was able to snatch up the last copy at that location. Written by [...]
Carpenter’s Steakhouse gone sooner than expected
Carpenter’s was located at 14559 Forest Boulevard North in downtown Hugo, Minnesota bordering Egg Lake and across from where the Hugo Depot once stood. It consisted of two sections, a main section built in 1891, and a dance hall was added in 1902. Joseph Carpenter founded a general store in the Village of Hugo in [...]
