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Healthy Habit:

Preventive Health Care Testing Goal: Verify all of your family members’ immunizations and health care screenings are up to date. If there are any lingering health care concerns, now is the time to pick up the phone and get an appointment.

Make preventive health care a healthy habit: Connect regularly with your provider to help determine which screening tests are right for you and your family. Plan ahead for check-ups, immunizations, summer camp health forms and sports physicals. Inquire with your insurance plan about reduced cost or free coverage for preventive services.

Expert Insight

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Preventive health care testing can help detect problems early, often when they are preventable and treatable. Keep in mind that screening recommendations change as new research and technology become available, so be sure to ask your provider what tests are right for you and your family.

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FEATURES aPRIL 2017 Volume 12, Issue 4

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Protect, serve, heal

Our heroes will impress and inspire.

About the Cover Guardians of our city, Becca Thorston, Keith Mortensen and Don Lehne are three of the eight heroes we’ve featured in this month’s issue. They were photographed downtown by Pat Christman. MANKATO MAGAZINE • April 2017 • 3

DEPARTMENTS 6 From the Editor 8 This Day in History 9 The Gallery

April Malphus

10 Beyond the Margin ‘Tornado Towers’

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12 Day Trip Destinations

Ibsen Festival

24 Essay Dial ‘M’ for MILLENNIAL 28 Then & Now Maud Hart Lovelace 35 Food, Drink & Dine

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38 Wine

39 Beer Heroic brews

40 Happy Hour

42 What’s Cooking Fire cider

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Bundt goodness So sweet

Mardi Gras spirits

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46 Garden Chat Celery 48 Your Style Luxury fashion 50 Coming Attractions 55 Faces & Places 60 From This Valley Suspect songbook

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Young Guns We introduce you to some young professionals who are making Mankato a better community.

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was a slow child. I mean, like, physically slow. My nemesis, Chris Fairbanks, said I was “slower than molasses in January.” (He also one day in the locker room looked at my gut and said, “You’ve got more rolls than a Danish bakery.” Ha. Good times.) My lack of speed led to my fascination with superheroes. I’d hunker down every Saturday morning for cartoons, my favorite being the “Super Friends.” “Dedicated to truth, justice and peace for all mankind!” the narrator would say. My favorite wasn’t what you would call one of the “starters.” He was more of a role player, the kind of guy who comes in off the bench in special situations. He wore a red bodysuit with lightning bolts on his chest, boots and face mask. He was the flash, and to a kid with sloth-like speed, he was everything. He could literally run around the globe in a few seconds. That’s what the folks in the National Football League would call “breakaway speed.” No one could catch him. Untouchable, he was. Superman, a guy who had, like, every power, was fine. But, honestly, it seemed bit much. Aquaman was cool. Coaxing aquatic life to do your bidding and breathing under water were cool. (Did you know Aquaman could swim roughly 6,700 mph? Stud.) But no one, and I mean no one, ever pretended to be Aquaman. The brainy and resourceful Batman was OK, as was Wonder Woman (invisible jet, magic lasso, interesting outfit … Looking forward to the film coming out soon.) But for me, in the world of the Super Friends, it was always

The Flash. Later, I’d be consumed by the story and abilities of Spiderman. But for a short time, all I wanted to be was The Flash. He was my hero. This month in Mankato Magazine, we bring you stories of actual heroes: men and women who go to work every day with no other goal than to keep our community safe. Whether they carry a gun, run into burning buildings or heal the sick, they are our community’s finest. From the story of a nurse who saved a life on a plane to a sheriff ’s deputy who prevented a suicide, we’ve gathered a fine selection of individuals we’ve got no problem calling “heroes.” Also in this issue — to bring things back to fictional characters — we’ve got an outstanding essay from Tom Royer, a comic book buff who has noticed a positive trend in some of the new titles coming out. MM Robb Murray is associate editor of Mankato Magazine. Contact him at 344-6386 or rmurray@ mankatofreepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @freepressRobb.

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“I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.” ~ Maya Angelou

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Luanne Anderson Employer:

Blue Earth County Sheriff’s Department

Years of service:

24

Favorite part of job: “The freedom to get out and about and not be in an office.”

Vigilance through danger By Brian Arola

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uanne Anderson was serving civil papers nearby when the call came on Sept. 19, 2016. Dispatchers reported a woman was badly injured, and a man — allegedly the attacker — had fled from a Swan Lane home in Mankato. The details were serious enough for the Blue Earth County Sheriff’s deputy to immediately respond. Anderson was first on scene. Imagine the apprehension you’d feel knowing you needed to locate and attend to a victim, while not knowing the whereabouts of the attacker. This is what Anderson faced that day. She remembers the victim’s daughter frantically pointing at a bed. The heavy curtains over the windows blotted out the sunlight, making visibility difficult. By the time Anderson located and reached the victim, Nyawill Dup, the woman was bleeding from her head and making a familiar, horrifying sound. 16 • April 2017 • MANKATO MAGAZINE

“She was doing what I call the death gurgle,” Anderson said. “She was that bad. She was breathing, but it was the death gurgle.” Help soon arrived for Dup. It was later revealed her head wound was caused by a hammer strike from her estranged husband, David Khat Kong. With responders attending to Dup, Anderson and her backup turned their attention to finding Kong. They searched throughout the home but found nothing. Another deputy searched the backyard, which gave them their answer. Kong was found there with a self-inflicted injury. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Dup lived, and was taken to a nursing facility for recovery. “She’s got a long hill ahead of her,” Anderson said of Dup. “Just hope she’s doing well.” The Swan Lane incident stands out in her 24-year career, she said. It was a reminder that she hadn’t seen it all just yet.

“I’ve seen some really strange things,” she said. “To be honest, when I say I’ve seen it all, I haven’t yet.” Anderson remembered feeling thankful she made it home safe afterward. It’s never a guarantee in her line of work. She learned that firsthand during a routine call in December when another deputy pulled out in front of her. The resulting crash put her on injury leave. “I even had a vest on, an exterior vest, and wasn’t sure if it was the seatbelt or airbag that broke the bone,” she said. It was an example of her job’s unpredictability. You can escape one situation unscathed, but another always awaits. That’s why Anderson, after mulling over a question about what makes a successful shift, answered bluntly. “I made it home alive, that’s what it boils down to,” she said. “I’ve got three kids to go home to and need to be there.”

Keith Mortensen Employer:

Mankato Department of Public Safety

Years of service:

21

Favorite part of job: “Interacting with the kids. It is fun to watch them learn and grow. Plus, seeing the world from their point of view.”

Call me ‘Morty’ By Robb Murray

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any who go into law enforcement do so with vivid memories of themselves as tykes pretending to be police officers. Keith Mortensen had no such memories. He’d been considering geography. Or perhaps law school. And then his mom made what he now believes was a wise suggestion. Instead of practicing law, why not enforce it. “Mom suggested it would be a good, stable job,” Mortensen says, flashing his trademark (and ever present) smile. So that’s what he did. And after the Waseca native graduated from Minnesota State University’s law enforcement program, Mortensen went to work for the Mankato Department of Public Safety. After spending many years on road patrol, Mortensen took an assignment as a school liaison officer. In that role, he says, he’s found his niche. One of the signature programs is the cleverly named Cops and

Bobbers. With fellow officer Todd Moore, Mortensen created the fun summer program with a dual purpose: teach kids to fish while strengthening their relationship with youth. The program, aimed at youth ages 8-18, has been wildly successful. It sprang, Mortensen says from the familiar Chinese proverb, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Thinking quite literally, the pair created a program where enrolled kids meet weekly with the officers for a few hours of fishing fun. But as Mortensen tells it, a whole lot more than fishing goes on. “Once you start catching fish,” he says, “It’s just a melee. … The main thing is to just keep them busy with demonstrations and catching the fish. And Freezie Pops.” Mortensen says anyone can sign up for Cops and Bobbers,

but they also try to target a few kids they think could benefit from having a little structure in their summer. The program gives kids a chance to mingle and make new friends. Older kids are tapped to help younger ones. “We like to get the kids that have never experienced fishing,” Mortenson said. “Sometimes they’re at-risk kids, sometimes they aren’t.” At Mankato East High School, he insists they call him “Morty,” the nickname he’s had for years. “I want them to call me Morty so they feel comfortable talking to me,” he said. “I also tell them, ‘Hey, if you don’t like me because of my job, that’s fine. But in order to get respect, you have to give respect.” “They’re fun. They’re just fun kids,” he added. “And just the strange questions they’ll ask you. Do you pay for your gas? Can you turn your lights on and drive as fast as you want whenever you want? I just love it.” MANKATO MAGAZINE • April 2017 • 17

Becca Thorston Employer:

Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato

Years of service:

4

Favorite part of job: “Working in the emergency department I generally see people at their worst. I enjoy getting to help make these moments in their lives a little better and more bearable.”

All in a day’s work … By Robb Murray

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he, of course, says nothing about what she did that day was “heroic.” Wasn’t worthy of special recognition. Any nurse would have done the same thing, she says. Well, the man who fell ill on her return flight from Florida that day would most likely beg to differ. Becca Thorston (nee Stevens) and a doctor on board came to his aid, and he’s alive today because of it. Thorston was vacationing in Florida before getting on that plane home. A flight attendant spotted an Amboy Fire Rescue logo on her shirt and asked if she’d had medical training. When she informed them she was a nurse, they asked for her help caring for an ill passenger. “I was wondering, ‘What in the world are they getting me into?’” Thorston said. “But I was also concerned about the man.” Thorston jumped right in. Flight attendants had already 18 • April 2017 • MANKATO MAGAZINE

given him oxygen. Laying down across a row of seats, the man was pale and complaining of back pain. Thorston began taking vital signs. His blood pressure was elevated and he was having a hard time breathing. The situation seemed serious, Thorston said, so she had flight attendants ask if there was a doctor on the flight. Luckily, there was, and the two of them worked together to solve the medical riddle. As things worsened, Thorston and the doctor convinced the crew to land; the flight bound for Minneapolis was making an unexpected layover in Nashville. “When I first assessed the patient, his systolic blood pressure was 160, and by the time we made an emergency landing in Nashville, I couldn’t even get a blood pressure,” Thorston said. “Clearly he would not have survived the entire flight to Minneapolis.” During the ordeal, though,

Thorsten never left the man’s side. She stayed with him, spoke with him, assured him things would be OK. She’d ask him questions, then relay that information to the doctor and together they’d assess his situation. Was she nervous? Nah. “You have to be the calm in their storm,” she said. On the ground, paramedics were waiting. Doctors diagnosed him with and treated him for acute renal failure. In the end, because they landed when they did, the man was OK. A week later, a flight attendant from that flight contacted Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato. “I want you to know what a true professional, calm, caring and very knowledgeable nurse you have in Becca,” the flight attendant’s email said. Her story was published in a Mayo newsletter, and soon everyone around her knew her heroic story.

Tom Rother Employer:

Mankato Department of Public Safety

Years of service:

11

Favorite part of job:

“My favorite moment in my career is being in an interview room with somebody and knowing that person is guilty of something and getting that person to confess to you.”

Problem solver By Brian Arola

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eople want answers when a violent crime occurs. As an investigator with the Mankato Police Department, Tom Rother’s job is to find the answers. There’s a degree of pressure inherent in the job. While he does his work, the public, media and victim’s family are hungry for any bit of new information. Through all the noise, an investigator’s job is to find those answers without cutting corners. A slip up could mean a botched case. Someone might even make a podcast someday about how bad you are at your job. Yet Rother said he relishes when the case enters its homestretch. Interviewing suspects is his favorite part of the job, in part because he feels like he’s finally getting to the bottom of the crime. “For me sitting down with a suspect in an interview room is far more of a rush for me than driving 70 miles per hour to an accident,” he said.

What comes after the confession — informing the victim or their loved ones that the crime is solved — makes it all worth it. “To be able to come down and shake their hand and say ‘We solved your crime’ is huge,” Rother said. “That’s what drives me everyday.” To Rother, an investigator is the justice seeker for those who aren’t able to seek justice for themselves. “To be able to put the pieces together at a death scene or an assault and give that family some sort of closure as to what happened,” he said, “ultimately that’s what we’re doing is speaking on behalf of the victim’s family.” Rother’s desire to enter law enforcement traces back to a singular event. He was undecided about his future as he entered college. Then 9/11 happened, and he knew he wanted to help people. Rother graduated from

Minnesota State University in 2005. He started as a patrol officer, became a school resource officer for six years, then switched to investigations for the last three. Rother said he enjoys the dayto-day variety of his work, and his career path reflects that. “In the same day I’ve been to a homicide scene, and later on in the afternoon I’ve been in a parade,” Rother said. “It’s where Mayberry meets Minneapolis,” he said. “You have issues with small-town USA you’ll be dealing with, so there’s never a day when I’m bored at work.” Boredom shouldn’t set in any time soon. Rother is part of an ongoing three-county team investigating sex trafficking in southern Minnesota. “Originally it was trying to arrest buyers of sex,” he said of the effort. “Now we’re trying to get people out of the lifestyle.”

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Don Lehne Employer:

Mankato Department of Public Safety

Years of service:

28

Favorite part of job:

Everything I do revolves around working with people or helping them in difficult situations. It makes for a rewarding career.

Farm fresh, fire tested By Robb Murray

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on Lehne is no stranger to hard work. He started doing daily dairy farm chores at age 5, often beginning his days washing cow milking equipment. “It is a lot of work,” says Lehne, who is now a fire commander for the Mankato Department of Public Safety. “We’d have to be there twice a day — no getting out of it.” Don’t forget the chickens: the Lehne farm in Lamberton had 16,000 chickens, which resulted in about 13,000 eggs each day, all of which needed to gathered by the Lehne younglings. “The eggs would roll down into cages,” he said. “With all the kids, it would take an hour and a half to pick up 13,000 eggs.” They’d package them into cartons and store them in a cooler. Every three days, the egg truck came to pick them up. “I enjoyed working, loved being outside, loved the lifestyle,” says Lehne. “Sure, sometimes I didn’t want to be there, but it instilled a 20 • April 2017 • MANKATO MAGAZINE

good work ethic.” Lehne got his start with firefighting the way a lot of them do: he started out as a volunteer. He enrolled at Pipestone Area Vocational and Technical Institute to become a carpenter. After one year of that, though, he decided to work toward a fouryear degree. After transferring to Bethany Lutheran College where he earned an Associate’s degree, he transferred again to Minnesota State University and earned a business degree. During college, he worked as a volunteer firefighter for two years until he was hired full time in 1991. Not long after he started, he was called to a fatal fire. The impact on him was significant. “I remember thinking during the fire that this is what I was trained for,” Lehne said. Outside the job, Lehne spends most of his time with his wife, Kristin, a pediatric physical therapist, and their three boys. Lehne says his kids love that

dad is a fireman. They like the uniform and the big trucks, he said. But he also says that, while his kids may be proud of the work he does, he’ll probably steer them away from careers fighting fires. Why? The obvious reason: It’s dangerous. Having kids, he says, has made him a better firefighter. “Puts more importance on the work and definitely changes the outlook,” Lehne said. “I’m more patient.” Lehne loves to hunt, fish and generally spend time outdoors. He owns land south of town where he’s set up trail cameras. “I just like looking at pictures of wildlife,” he said. “I love animals, enjoy the outdoors, love hunting and fishing.” He keeps a “library” of wildlife books handy at home for personal reference. “It’s ironic, I once read in a book that, to be a deer hunter, you have to love deer,”

Dan Anderson Employer:

Minnesota State Patrol

Years of service:

20

Favorite part of job: The people I get to work with, not only the Troops in District 22, but the allied agencies. The seamless cooperation that goes on here is pretty unique.

A friendly face By Robb Murray

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hen families are experiencing the worst, Dan Anderson is at his

best. Anderson is a trooper with the Minnesota State Patrol. He specializes in dealing with families who have had that knock at the door no one ever wants to get — the one that starts with the door opening to a law enforcement officers and ends with immeasurable heartache. Fatal crashes happen almost every day in Minnesota. When they happen in southern Minnesota on a state highway, there’s a good chance Anderson will be involved. And while he doesn’t do many of the death notifications anymore like he did earlier in his career, he leads the post-investigation when it’s time to explain to families how their loved one died. Dealing with death, though, is never easy. That’s a lesson Anderson learned the first time he had to be the one who knocks. His first job as a trooper came

in Rochester. After finishing near the top of this class at the Minnesota State Patrol’s skills academy, he got to choose where he wanted to go. And as there were no openings in the Mankato district, he chose Rochester. When you work in law enforcement, it doesn’t take long to eventually have to deal with the worst. “I remember my first death notification,” Anderson said. “I was thinking, ‘This is the worst thing I’ve ever had to do.’ I was crying, they were crying … I left that meeting thinking I’d done a horrible job.” But he was wrong. He hadn’t done a horrible job. In fact, that family later wrote a letter to Anderson thanking him for treating the moment like a human being. For Anderson, it wasn’t an act. In talking with Anderson about that day and about his duties dealing with families, it’s not hard to see that he’s a man who truly cares about the people he’s

working with and wants to ease the hurt of families in pain. That first notification taught him an important lesson: Humanity, when informing families of loss, is the most important tool in an officer’s arsenal. Anderson’s willingness to use that tool, his supervisor said, is what makes him so good at dealing with families. “The way he communicates with these family members is nothing short of phenomenal,” State Patrol Capt. Jeremy Geiger said. Anderson was born and raised in the Mankato area. After high school, he attended college for a year before worked a series of … odd jobs (mail courrier, mechanic bouncer.) He was even in a rock band for a while. After State Patrol academy, he worked in Rochester and then transfered to Mankato. The south-central Minnesota families who have dealt with tragedy are better for it. MANKATO MAGAZINE • April 2017 • 21

Brandon Brehmer Employer:

Mankato Department of Public Safety

Years of service:

13

Favorite part of job:

“You’re not in this job because you want to be a millionaire. You’re in this job because you want to help people out and be a good person at the end of the day.”

Hot scoop By Brian Arola

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o become one of the wily old veterans of a fire department at age 31, you’ve got to start early. Take Brandon Brehmer. He started volunteering with the Mankato Fire Department at 18 and hasn’t looked back since. Saying Brehmer is a work horse would be an understatement. He proudly talks about having five jobs, and says it wouldn’t feel right to slack off at any of them. “I don’t like to sit around and let dust collect on my boots,” he said. “I’d rather wear them out in a year than let dust collect on them.” This tenacious work ethic translates to his fire service duties. He may be a volunteer, but don’t think he sees the work as optional. “I don’t really know if there’s anything volunteer about it,” he said. Whether responding to a fire, receiving training or teaching elementary students about fire

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prevention, he estimates he spends two or three days per week serving in a fire department role. The work feels important, he said. “You’re not in this job because you want to be a millionaire,” he said of firefighting. “You’re in this job because you want to help people.” Fighting fires is one way to help people, but Brehmer also likes to teach fire prevention. He works with Jefferson Elementary students on fire safety, and passes on the lessons taught to him by elders to fire department newcomers. He’s also certified as a youth fire preventionist through the state fire marshal. The program involves outreach to youth fire setters. Brehmer said the training allows him to get to the core of what caused them to start fires. Often times it’s boredom, or lack of supervision. “A lot of these kids come from

troubled backgrounds,” he said. “They just don’t know what’s right or wrong or don’t have the supervision from people at home.” These are all duties outside of what we typically imagine firefighters doing. The other side of the job is, of course, fighting fires. Brehmer is big on preparation. Or at least big on being as prepared as you can be for a fire call that might not even come that day. When the bell does ring, however, there isn’t room for passivity. Here’s where all the training, the going above and beyond pays off, he said. He talks hopefully about reaching 40 years in the department someday. His passion for the job won’t extinguish. “You have to have a passion for this job to really do it and like it,” he said. “It’s not something where you wake up and say you want to be a firefighter today.”

Chris Arkell Employer:

Blue Earth County Sheriff’s Department

Years of service:

4

Favorite part of job: “Traffic enforcement is more my way of reaching out to the public. I’m more about education than writing tickets.”

Heavy situations By Brian Arola

It’s a good thing Chris Arkell is so tall. The Blue Earth County Sheriff’s deputy needed every inch of his 6’3 frame while responding to a call from a man threatening to commit suicide in September 2016. Arriving on scene, Arkell remembered feeling wary. Details from the caller at the Southhaven mobile home park south of Mankato were vague, leading Arkell and his fellow officer to suspect something else was up — recent police ambushes elsewhere in the country were fresh in their minds. Inspecting the property, it was Arkell’s fellow officer, Kelly Wood from the Mankato Police Department, who first saw the man standing in a tree in the backyard. By the time she called for Arkell, the man was already swinging. The clock was ticking. Arkell and Wood rushed forward, knowing the pressure pushing down on the man’s neck had to

be relieved. Arkell, his stature paying off, bear hugged the man just below the knees and pushed up. Wood tried to climb the tree to cut the man down, but mucky ground complicated both their efforts. Arkell remembered feeling like he wasn’t getting enough of an upward push, like gravity was doing what it does best. “The scariest thing for me was when I was holding him up was I could feel him convulsing in my hands,” he said. The clock kept ticking. As more back up arrived, Arkell braced the man against a tree limb while two others held him there. Arkell then helped his fellow first responder up into the tree, handing her his knife to cut the man down. Finally, the rope snapped, leading to tense moments until the officers realized the man was breathing. He’d been saved. All in a hard day’s work, right? Time Time to celebrate? Nope. “You get the adrenaline dump,

like it’s over, but of course that was the first part of my shift so I had still another nine hours to go,” Arkell said. Arkell had just started at the sheriff’s office about a month before the Southhaven incident. He previously worked with Mankato PD for about three years. He said episodes like the attempted suicide stand out, but the job requires moving on to the next call. “I don’t want to sound like an old salty veteran and it’s not a big deal,” he said. “It still affected me. “I don’t want to say it’s something you see and get over, but we have to in law enforcement.” Arkell said he’s arrived at tragic scenes where there was nothing he could do. Southhaven was the opposite. He prefers that. “There’s a mentality that they were trying to hang themselves and that’s their decision, but that person needs help,” he said. “I’d rather they get mental health (help) and live a longer life.” MANKATO MAGAZINE • April 2017 • 23

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Old Straight White Dude emerges from decades-long bathroom stop to find planet ably protected by new generation of superdiverse heroes

By Tom Royer Images all courtesy of Marvel Comics

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fell in love with superheroes at a young age. The affair started with the tattered remains of my three older brothers’ well-worn comic book collections. Those hellions had read and re-read their comics countless times over, rolled them up to cram into their back pockets, cut out the coupons for 3-D specs and green plastic Army men sets, and no doubt performed other unspeakable desecrations. 24 • April 2017 • MANKATO MAGAZINE

And then our parents decided that comics books were to blame for their children’s brain rot, tossing most of these halftone gems in the garbage. Apologies to non-geeks for getting a little “inside baseball” here, but my big brothers grew up in the early 1960s, during the borning-cry days of Marvel Comics. I’m told that among the books they used, abused, and had taken from them were the earliest appearances of legendary Jack Kirby/Steve Ditko/ Stan Lee creations such as the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Avengers, Doctor Strange, and the X-Men. Some of those 10-cent issues might have been valued at tens of thousands of dollars today had they not been thrown in the burn pile half a century ago. I love my idiot brothers. Really, I do. But I digress. The handful of comics which somehow survived to the ’70s fell into my possession as my siblings’ interests turned to cars and girls and whatnot. Despite my parents’ apparent concern over this lowclass popular literature — had they read Fredric Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent? — I credit the art form with expanding my world in so many positive ways. These comic books inspired a love of reading, of language, of art, of fantasy, and of science. Poring over Kirby and Ditko’s bright, energetic adventures with a youthful lust, I absolutely felt a connection with Lee’s characters’ inquisitiveness and humor, and the “real world” problems that Marvel heroes became known for. Looking back, I see now that I could effortlessly relate to the FF, Spidey, Strange and the rest because, with very few exceptions, the superheroic characters of my childhood were male, white, and demonstrably heterosexual, or at least living very deep in a newsprint closet of quiet, two-dimensional self-loathing. (If I were a superhero, I’d be Old Straight White Dude. My powers would include super-long visits to the bathroom, and the uncanny ability to cruise through life.) So I’m not a woman, a person of color, nor queer; genetic whims haven’t forced me to fight daily battles for respect and dignity. With my privilege showing more plainly each passing year, my search for a better understanding of the diversity that surrounds me is yielding a bounty in my old friend, the comic book. The new generation of Marvel superheroes is taking over and blazing amazing new trails.

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Award-winning writer G. Willow Wilson’s Ms. Marvel was immediately lauded following its 2014 debut. In her everyday life as Kamala Khan, a Muslim Pakistani-American from New Jersey, the teenage hero faces bullies at high school, family obligations at home and occasional relationship drama, all while battling superpowered bad guys with her strange body-modification powers and, oh yeah, trying to keep her grades up. If Kamala’s daily grind sounds vaguely like SpiderMan’s back in the early days, you’re paying attention — the character is routinely compared to one of the most iconic comic book characters ever created. If Kamala’s daily grind sounds vaguely like yours today (minus the supervillains) you’re not alone. In particular, the pressures of her home life resonate strongly with readers; she loves her family and respects their traditions, but is a good kid and often feels stifled by their rules and responsibilities. Another recent addition to the Marvel roster is Riri Williams, a 15-year-old African-American wünderkind. The early-entry Massachusetts Institute of Technology student is such a brilliant problemsolver that she reverse-engineers Iron Man’s incredible suit in her dorm room. Then, having shown herself what she’s capable of, proceeds to drop out of school and pursue a full-time career as an armored superhero. In the current Iron Man comics, Riri has recently stepped in for the absent Avenger, naming herself Ironheart. (She immediately ruled out “Iron Maiden.”) Legendary comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis’ backstory for the character is tragic, and continues to compel her storyline forward. Meanwhile, Marvel has shown us that no two super-geniuses are alike. For reasons far too complicated to explain here, 9-year-old Lunella Lafayette is the smartest person on Earth, has a time-displaced, mutant Tyrannosaurus rex named Devil Dinosaur for a pet, and occasionally experiences Freaky Friday-style mind-swaps with said dinosaur. As a tremendously imaginative inventor, the young African-American girl (“Moon Girl” when the goggles are on) can pull the most useful devices out of her backpack, but is often stymied by her parents, teachers and any other adult who has the audacity to treat her like a child! Remember what’s it like being little and feeling like no one is listening to you? Lunella is crying right there with you.

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MOON GIRL

Real name: Lunella Lafayette Age: 9 Home: New York City, N.Y. Powers/abilities: Super-genius intellect (“smartest person in the whole world”); very strong emotional states can trigger shift of consciousness into body of dinosaur friend Recent significant issue: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1 ( January 2016) Current creative team: Amy Reeder & Brandon Montclare (writers), Natacha Bustos (artist)

Real name: Riri Williams Age: 15 (attended MIT before dropping out to pursue superhero career) Home: Chicago, Ill. Powers/abilities: Extremely advanced engineering and machine-building skills; incredible intellect and problem-solving ability (reverse-engineered Iron Man’s armor, for example) Recent significant issue: Invincible Iron Man, Vol. 3, #1 ( January 2017) Current creative team: Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Stefano Caselli (artist)

The latest, and most powerful, hero to hit Marvel’s center stage is America Chavez, a feisty 19-year-old lesbian from a utopian alternate reality. Her character has been around for several years but just last month was finally given her own eponymous comic book, written by noteworthy young adult novelist Gabby Rivera. America’s tough, she’s strong, she can fly, and she’s trying to handle the time-management stress of going to college while leading superteam adventures into parallel universes. Did I mention she travels from universe to universe by punching big, star-shaped holes into them? This Latina badass looks to be the Next Big Thing.

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MS. MARVEL

Real name: Kamala Khan Age: 16 Home: Jersey City, N.J. Powers/abilities: Can enlarge, shrink or elongate entire body or individual body parts; appearance morphing; accelerated healing; superb superhero fan-fiction writing Recent significant issue: Ms. Marvel, Vol. 3, # 1 (February 2014) Current creative team: G. Willow Wilson (writer), Takeshi Miyazawa (artist) 26 • April 2017 • MANKATO MAGAZINE

MS. AMERICA

Real name: America Chavez Age: 19 Home: Some parallel universe of some sort Powers/abilities: Flight; super speed; super strength; invulnerability; can kick her way into parallel universes; college student; tough as *bleep* Recent significant issue: America #1 (March 2017) Current creative team: Gabby Rivera (writer), Joe Quinones (artist)

Marvel has encountered backlash in recent years for a creeping editorial “politically correctness” in its comics, as several long-established white male characters have taken a backseat to females and POC. It’s a hard to dispute what the comic book giant is doing — just look at what the four heroes described above all have in common. Hint: The answer is brown skin, two X chromosomes, and rhymes with “schmappealing to growing minority groups.” The folks at Marvel are no dummies. If readers don’t want to see comic books show samesex relationships, discussions on Islam and race, or feature arguments with parents about Lego competitions, they’ll stop buying them and Marvel will stop making them. Art may

imitate life, but both are beholden to the accounting department. There is nothing wrong with classic heroes like Peter Parker, Stephen Strange, and Tony Stark; if they weren’t great characters they wouldn’t still be here (and featured in major motion pictures) after 50-plus years. That said, these guys have been running around in their underoos for 50-plus years, so ... it might be time for a change. In one issue of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Lunella remarks to her oversized reptile friend that he “didn’t ask to be trapped in a world where you just don’t fit in.” She’s speaking as much for herself, of course, as for him. And if I felt as out-of-place as a big, red dinosaur in New York City, I’d probably be looking for a familiar face with which to commiserate. It isn’t necessary for your heroes to look the same as you, but when you’re a kid, it certainly helps. Remember the photograph of President Obama in the Oval Office, leaning over to let a small AfricanAmerican child touch his hair? The youngster needed to learn firsthand that someone like him could become someone as powerful and respected as the President of the United States. Heroes that look like Kamala or Riri or Lunella or America are important because they can remind young girls of color that they are important. And particularly when their stories are created by people who’ve lived the experience — Muslim and queer writers, female and Latinx artists — old straight white dudes like me get a better glimpse into

something slightly askew from my daily life. Which is a pretty great way to expand horizons and grow as a person. “We are all born with a certain package. We are who we are — where we were born, who we were born as, how we were raised,” film critic and fellow old straight white dude Roger Ebert once said. “We’re kind of stuck inside that person. And the purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize a little bit with other people.” Ebert had movies in mind, of course, but he could just as well have been describing the power of this new generation of comic books when he added, “For me (they) are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand a little bit more about different hopes, aspirations, dreams, and fears. It helps us identify the other people who are sharing this journey with us.” There’s nothing like walking a mile in a T. rex’s MM shoes (or mind) to gain a fresh perspective.

(Special note to the DC fangirls & boys out there: My apologies for excluding your favorite superheroes; I just happen to Make Mine Marvel. Looking forward to Wonder Woman on the big screen June 2, though — her time is long overdue. Respect the Goddess.)

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Then & Now: Maud Hart Lovelace By: Bryce O. Stenzel

The Enduring Legacy of Mankato’s Author:

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Maud Hart Lovelace

ankato’s best-loved author, Maud Hart Lovelace, was born on April 25, 1892, at 214 Center Street in Mankato. She was the second daughter (Maud’s older sister Kathleen was born in 1889) of Thomas and Stella (Palmer) Hart. The Harts moved into a larger house at 333 Center Street in October, 1892. A year after Maud was born, her father Thomas opened a shoe store at 306 South Front Street, moving his business to 403 South Front Street in 1900. Thomas Hart continued to own and operate his shoe store until the fall of 1904, when he sold it to take on the responsibilities of recently being elected Blue Earth County Treasurer. In 1906, the Harts moved from Center Street to a larger house on the corner of Cherry and Fifth streets in order to be nearer to the courthouse and high school. The Blue Earth County Courthouse still stands, but the Mankato High School building burned in 1941. Although both houses are still intact, it would be the Center Street home that Maud immortalized in her Betsy-Tacy series of children’s books. The house originally consisted of only a parlor, kitchen and two bedrooms on the second floor. The Harts added a kitchen and dining room, as well as a main-floor bedroom, in preparation for the birth of their third and youngest child, Margaret. Maud’s father, Thomas planted maple trees in the front yard of the house as well as planting a small orchard in the back. A barn and buggy shed also stood at the rear of the house. In her stories, Maud described climbing a large maple tree that stood in the back yard. From its leafy branches as well as from the top of the “Big Hill” (Sumner Hill) that stood behind her house, Maud could see all the way into downtown Mankato (which she dubbed “Deep Valley,” for the steep, wooded bluffs that hemmed in the Minnesota River on both sides). At a distance, she could even see the “silver ribbon” of the river as it meandered through town, making a large bend in the heart of the city. Just beyond Maud’s home, Center Street (Hill Street) dead-ended into a hillside, in which a bench was erected for Maud and her best friends, Frances “Bicky” Kenney (Tacy) and Marjorie “Midge” Gerlach (Tib) to sit on. Frances “Bicky” Kenney’s house at 322 Center stood directly across the street from Maud’s

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house and Midge Gerlach lived, just blocks away, at 503 Byron Street. In her book, “Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill,” Maud described the setting of her neighborhood this way: Betsy and Tacy lived on Hill Street which ran straight up into a green hill and stopped. The small yellow cottage where Betsy Ray lived was the last house on that side of the street, and the rambling white house opposite where Tacy Kelly lived was the last house on that side. Both of these homes have been lovingly and painstakingly restored by the Betsy-Tacy Society of Mankato, a non-profit group dedicated to preserving the sites and artifacts associated with Maud Hart Lovelace. At the other end of Center Street, where it turned into Broad and continued on into the heart of downtown, was Lincoln Park, site of the famed “Lincoln Elm Tree” and “Boy in Blue” Civil War monument/fountain. As Maud herself described it in “Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill,” “Lincoln Park was a pie-shaped wedge of lawn with a giant elm tree and a fountain on it. Hill Street turned into Broad Street there. It was the end of the neighborhood.” Until the girls were older, they were not allowed to venture beyond the watchful eye of the Union soldier standing at “parade rest” in the center of the fountain basin. In one of her later stories, “Emily of Deep Valley,” Lovelace described the same park through the eyes of one of her friends, Marguerite Marsh (Emily Webster), whose home originally stood on the site of the Schmidt Mansion (the original YMCA building). In this scene, Marguerite attended a “Decoration Day” (Memorial Day) ceremony in the Park: Emily hurried up to little pie-shaped Lincoln Park where the statue of a Union soldier surmounted a sparkling fountain. Folding chairs had been set up beneath a giant elm. She was glad to see her grandfather (John Q.A. Marsh), looking flushed and happy, sitting next to Judge Hodges (General James Baker), and she watched him fondly as the program took its familiar way: ‘The Star Spangled Banner;’ the invocation; the reading of General Logan’s orders; ‘Tenting Tonight on the on the Old Camp Ground’… and Lincoln’s ‘Gettysburg Address,’ which never failed to stir her. These stirring traditions have been reintroduced to

Lincoln Park by Mankato’s Boy in Blue Civil War Veterans’ Memorial Committee, another non-profit community organization who oversaw the funding and reconstruction of the memorial from 2011-2015. Maud Hart Lovelace graduated from Mankato High School in 1910, and attended the University of Minnesota, where she wrote for two student publications. After a short period of study in several European countries, she married Delos Lovelace in 1917. The couple had a son, Thomas (who died a few hours after his birth) and a daughter, Merian. Lovelace wrote several historical novels, co-authoring two books with her husband. When Merian was young, her mother began recounting stories about her own childhood in Mankato. Seeing Merian’s enjoyment with the stories, Maud decided to write a book about her own childhood experiences, calling herself “Betsy Ray.” She ended up writing 10 Betsy-Tacy books, as well as three additional volumes written about “Deep Valley” characters.

In her writing, Maud Hart Lovelace did what many authors have done: she changed place names, as well as the names of people and their ages (she made Tib the same age as Betsy and Tacy though Midge Gerlach was a year behind the other two girls in school), and even re-arranged some of the facts the stories are based upon to suit the needs of her novels. She herself admitted in a 1961 interview. “To find the Deep Valley of the Betsy-Tacy stories in this bustling, modern Mankato is not easy,” she’d said. “You must wipe out the changes time has brought and bring back the horse and buggy days.” However, what is remarkable is that the Betsy-Tacy books serve as a time capsule—depicting what life was like for a middle-class school girl growing up in Mankato, at the turn of the twentieth century. For that fact alone, the books provide enduring historical value. Beyond that point, they make for wonderful stories, as thousands of loyal Betsy-Tacy fans the world over will attest. Maud Hart Lovelace always

seemed to know that storytelling and writing was her destiny. In one of the interviews she did, Maud said, “I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer. I remember following my mother around as a tyke, asking her ‘how do you spell “going down the street?”’ See, I was writing a story already. My diaries were invaluable to me, I’d tell the kids a story and I’d write everything down later. I wrote stories in notebooks and illustrated them with pictures cut from magazines.” 125 years after her birth, the community that she so loved and immortalized in her books keeps her life and legacy alive for future generations to enjoy and be inspired by.

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Reflections By Pat Christman

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inter always seems to have one last say. A last gasp before spring comes and warms us up after months of snow and ice. Sometimes it’s hard to believe there’s still life beneath all the ice. Life that’s waiting to thrive again after months of dormancy. All it takes is a little sun, a little warmth and a little break from winter’s grip. MM

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y mom had a Bundt pan when I was little. Olive green. Matched the tacky teacup-themed wallpaper that lined the walls of our of St. Paul home. Oddly shaped, I didn’t realize it was a made-in-Minnesota original, and that people all over the world were being wooed by its Midwestern quirkiness. All I knew was that, when mom pulled out the Bundt pan, deliciousness was on the way. The smell of chocolate cake blew through that drafty house like a Minnesota breeze, icing dripped over and around its curves, and scattered humans suddenly appeared from moody bedrooms and basement floor-hockey games. It was a special day. This month in Food, Drink & Dine, Sarah Johnson brings you the story of the Bundt pan’s origins, and gives you all the temptation you’ll need to plan a trip to St. Louis Park to visit the Bundt factory and showroom. If you go and purchase a Bundt pan, remember that the editorial, design and sales staff at Mankato Magazine are among the region’s finest taste testers.

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A kick-Bundt cake! The famous cake mold is a Minnesota creation By Sarah Johnson

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ere’s a question: Which Minnesota-born cake has a place in the Smithsonian Institution as a quintessential American dessert? The Bundt cake, of course. But you don’t have travel all the way to Washington DC to get a Bundt cake, of course. If grandma’s kitchen doesn’t turn up a few, a short drive to St. Louis Park, a suburb on the western side of Minneapolis, will place you in the Heaven of Bundt cake pans and a treasure trove of other quality cookware. The Nordic Ware Factory Store, adjacent to its corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility, is frequented by home cooks, chefs and restaurant owners. It sells dozens of sizes and shapes of Bundt pans. Uffda, that’s a lot of Bundt cakes! Bundt cakes got their start more than 70 years ago by an enterprising housewife and her hubby. According to Nordic Ware legend, “A n i n s p i r a t i o n a l American success story, Nordic Ware was founded in 1946 by a determined wife, Dotty Dahlquist, and her resourceful husband, Dave, newly returned from service in World War II. With only $500 in their pockets, a few good ideas and a desire to create a business of their own, they launched a humble kitchenware company from the basement of their home in Minneapolis. At the b e g i n n i n g , No r d i c Ware’s product line

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consisted of only a handful of items, all of which were specialty Scandinavian cookware products — the rosette iron, krumkake iron, platte panne pan, and the ebelskiver pan.” Whatever an ebelskiver pan is, it didn’t sell nearly as well as the Bundt cake pan. Speaking of weird words, the trademarked word “Bundt” comes from the German Bundkuchen, a type of cake popular among Jewish communities there. Nordic Ware added the “t” in order to trademark the name. St. Louis

Park was originally where a high concentration of Jewish people lived, and they wanted baking pans similar to the ones they had used in the old country. This was the inspiration for the unique Bundt shape. Today there is no single recipe for Bundt cake; folks pour just about any type of batter in and bake away. The Bundt-style pan design has expanded beyond the original fluted ring to all sorts of freeform shapes and designs of skyscrapers, octopus and cathedrals. Since this type of cake

is difficult to frost, Bundt cakes are typically dusted with powdered sugar, drizzled with glaze, or served plain. The Bundt pan received a big boost when a version called the “Tunnel of Fudge” entered the 1966 Pillsbury Bake-Off. It only got second place, but a legendary cake was born with a big media presence due to its unique shape. Bundt pans really took off, and now they are found in more than 70 million kitchens worldwide. The fact that the Bundt cake was simple to make and had a highly pleasing design gave it broad appeal. It could be easily cut into up to 24 even servings and its appearance was impressive, which made it ideal for entertaining. According to Dana Norsten, National Sales Manager and Public Relations/Communications Director, Nordic Ware is still manufacturing the majority of its products in Minneapolis. The company employs more than 300 people and is still family-owned and operated, with three generations involved in the business. It has more than 200,000 square feet of manufacturing, assembly and distribution facilities. The original Scandinavian products have been joined by hundreds of other items in Nordic Ware’s product offering. The factory outlet store is also home to a contemporary demonstration kitchen, where Nordic Ware hosts cooking and baking classes. In the classes, local chefs, cookbook authors and cooking instructors demonstrate cooking and baking techniques. Norsten said the classes are a way for Nordic Ware to reach the local community beyond just selling products. Visiting the store is a sensory pleasure that goes beyond a regular shopping experience. Enormous photographs of luscious cakes dripping with icing fill the walls, while piles of cookie sheets, racks of utensils and displays of casseroles compete for attention. Microwave and grilling cookware are big sellers these days, as are the specialty baking pans beyond Bundt. A large kitchenette fills the central space, making it feel more homey than corporate. And it smells like sugar and flour and vanilla and almonds, which is not a bad way to spend an hour.

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By Leigh Pomeroy

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ficionados of sweet wines have seen little in my writings about them. This is not because I don’t like them — I do! But I don’t often drink them because they can too often overpower many foods. That said, there are (of course) major exceptions. Sweet wines can be wonderful with cheeses and desserts, or just to sip before or after a meal. There are many types of sweet wines in the world, and virtually all major growing areas offer at least some type of sweet wine. Perhaps the most famous sweet wines come from the Sauternes and Barsac regions of Bordeaux in southwest France. Made from a blend of semillon, sauvignon blanc and sometimes muscadelle grapes, they can be achingly sweet and unbalanced when young, yet at maturity, from 10 to 50 years of age, they can be perfumed with honey, apricots and flowers, and leave a lingering taste that goes on and on and on. In the 1970s I was honored to sample the 1928 and 1929 Chateau d’Yquem wines on successive nights, arguably two of the best vintages ever from this acknowledged top producer of the area. One never forgets such an experience. What gives d’Yquem and other wines like it their concentrated sweetness is a simple mold called Botrytis cinerea, which punches holes in the grape skins and draws out the moisture. This results in shriveled grapes full of flavor and concentration. Needless to say, these wines can be very expensive, especially d’Yquem. Those looking for something similar can seek out a Vin Liquoreux from the nearby Graves region, made from the same grapes in mostly the same way but selling for a fraction of the price. The Bordeaux wines aren’t the only ones made sweet by the helpful Botrytis mold. Other highly prized examples include Beerenauslese and Trockenbeerenauslese wines of Germany and Austria, and Sélection de Grains Nobles wines of the Alsace region in northeast France. These are most often made from riesling, but can also be comprised of gewürztraminer, pinot gris, muscat or other white varietals, particularly in Austria. Two other European offerings made from botrytized grapes, albeit less well known, are the Coteaux du Layon wines of the Loire Valley, made from chenin blanc, and the Hungarian Tokaji Aszu wines, produced primarily from the unique-to-theregion furmint grape. The latter was once prized in both the French and Russian courts as the finest wine in the known world, and are particularly long-lived. I have tasted vintages going back to 1811, but most memorable was a 1920 Five Puttonyos, puttonyos being an indicator of the number of

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baskets of dried grapes added to the cuvée. Of course, we must not forget the ice wines that come from Germany, Canada, and the Finger Lakes region of New York. These wines achieve their sweetness and richness because the grapes are harvested when they are frozen and then immediately pressed, leaving the ice out of the juice and concentrating the sugars and flavors. Vintage and late-bottled vintage Ports from Portugal are made in a quite different way, by adding brandy to stop the fermentation early, thus yielding a high alcohol (18-21 percent) sweet elixir. Oloroso and Cream Sherries from Spain are made the same way, and if aged for years in soleras (stacks of barrels), can be spectacular. But don’t confuse wines labeled as port or sherry made in other countries, such as the U.S. and Australia, with the true stuff from Portugal and Spain. While the imposters can be good — even excellent — they’re not the true thing. You might also want to seek out Madeira from the islands of the same name off the coast of Portugal; Vin Santo, primarily from the Tuscan region of Italy; and the rich, goldenbrown Muscats and Tokays (from the muscat-related muscadelle grape) of the Rutherglen region of Australia. That said, our own local wineries offer outstanding examples of sweet or dessert wines. Perhaps the best known is Morgan Creek’s Black Ice, produced in the ice wine-style from white La Crescent grapes. A newer ice wine offering is the Sweet E made from the Frontenac Gris (pink) grape. Chankaska Creek entices its visitors with the Coeur de Colline, a port-style wine made from the red Frontenac grape. And Indian Island Winery offers its Indian Island Ice, harvested in mid-December from frozen grapes; Dancing Spirit, a white port-style wine made from Frontenac Gris; and Napin-Nagi, a red port-style wine made from Frontenac. Enjoy! Leigh Pomeroy is a Mankato-based writer and wine lover.

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ARIS — Fashion, like most everything else, is now seeking to please the millennials — who want experiences not products, who value design but are suspicious of a sales pitch, who want quality but tend to be cheap. The last thing millennials are supposed to want is an ostentatious $4,000 designer dress that might look great in a selfie but is too precious to sit down in let alone wear while pedaling to one’s communal office space on a shared bicycle. So thank God for millennials. Because fashion is changing — whether consciously or not - to lure them in. And those changes have, in many ways, been good for everyone. Yes, there are far too many folks walking in yoga pants who have never set foot in a gym. And certainly fashion has spent too much time obsessing over street style and how designers might make a better hoodie. But the generational shift has also meant greater diversity on the runway. It has pushed fashion to reconsider its means of distribution and presentation. It has taken some of the hot air out of many of the industry’s old-guard brands — notably Balenciaga and Valentino. And that’s good for Gen X and Baby Boomers, too. These two things co-existed on the Balenciaga runway Sunday: fullskirted gowns reborn from the house’s archive, and slim skirts assembled from car mats. Yes, the ones that catch the slush from your feet on a grimy day. Not only did both of these aesthetics live on the house’s runway, they did so with vibrancy and élan. There were classic overcoats that buttoned high on the shoulder, mimicking the look of fabric draped around a model during a fitting in an 48 • April 2017 • MANKATO MAGAZINE

haute couture salon. But there were also handbags crafted to mimic sideview windows cracked off a new car, and giant handbags that looked like something a street peddler would use to tote his wares. There was a magical evening gown covered in pale feathers, with a matching shopping bag. There were shirts with backs made from car mats. Designer Demna Gvasalia gracefully balanced humor and refinement, the past and the present, the atelier and the street. Balenciaga is marking its 100th anniversary not only by celebrating its history but also by sussing out how it might survive and thrive in its next century. This requires taking risks. Risks like using non-traditional materials; showing the collection in a massive basement adorned by nothing more than yards of gray Balenciaga-branded carpet; or the daring hire of Gvasalia, himself. Gvasalia debuted as the house’s creative director at this time last year. At the time, the most prominent data point on his resume was his lead role in the design collective, Vetements, best known for turning DHL t-shirts into covetable talismen of status. To be fair, even before Gvasalia’s arrival, Balenciaga was already working to engage contemporary sensibilities. Nicolas Ghesquière had given Balenciaga a futuristic sci-fi haute couture aesthetic. Alexander Wang emphasized a sportier look. Bu Gvasalia has pushed it even further by embracing kitschier references and elevating the banal under its branding. Gvasalia finds many of his models on the street, meaning that they are a rather eccentric-looking bunch. High cheekbones and the legs of a gazelle are not requirements to walk in one of his shows. On Sunday, the models looked practically bare-faced, with no visible makeup, not even lipstick.

But Gvasalia has also had a rocky time with his castings. He was criticized mightily for his failure to use models of color either in the Vetements show and in his fall 2016 debut for Balenciaga. While he was lauded for helping to upend the established definition of luxury fashion, he seemed mired in a 1950s view of diversity and its relevance in popular culture. That changed last season at Balenciaga. The runway was more inclusive. This season, the house was subject to accusations that its casting directors mistreated over 150 models who arrived at Balenciaga headquarters to vie for a spot on the runway. James Scully, who has become something of an activist for models’ rights, detailed the offending situation in an Instagram post. He accused the casting directors of leaving for lunch and abandoning the young women in a darkened stairwell for hours. The directors acknowledged that a power outage occurred during the go-see and even applauded Scully for speaking up on behalf of models, but denied that their behavior had been “cruel and sadistic” as he claimed. Ultimately, Balenciaga dismissed the casting directors and sent apologies to the models’ agents. But the contretemps served as a reminder that the women who walk the runways are typically young and vulnerable, their working conditions are largely unregulated and selling glamour can be profoundly grim business. Most assuredly, fashion is a grueling and impatient industry. To his credit, Gvasalia has quickly honed his vision for Balenciaga. The brand is his now. At Christian Dior, the story is very different. Last year, designer Maria Grazia Chiuri left Valentino to become the first woman to hold the creative reins at Dior. She opened her spring

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2017 show with a bold declaration of feminism and a collection inspired by fencing uniforms. She made you curious to see what she might do next. For fall, she was inspired by blue. Unless you are Yves Klein, that is not enough. The collection was not bad, it was simply dull. There were no moments of excitement, no visceral thrills, no wonderfully delightful trifle. No nextgeneration allure. Instead, Chiuri offered berets, coveralls, trim jackets, pleasant trousers and blue smoke. Eh. But back at Valentino, Pierpaolo Piccioli, her former co-designer, turned out a collection that showed off the technical prowess of the house, reveled in the pure beauty of fashion and steered clear of an aesthetic fit only for a china doll. Piccolo’s models wore chunkyheeled boots with cut-outs and buckles that made them look like a hybrid of gladiator sandals and Dr. Martens. It didn’t matter if models were wearing tent dresses with lavish embroidery or pleated ones in shades of gold or rose. The free-floating dresses were grounded with these take-no-prisoners boots. He paired loose-fitting trousers with flats that resembled Teva hiking sandals and slides; and luxurious evening gowns looked that much more comfortable thanks to the easy footwear with which they were worn. The dresses were ageless. One could imagine them on a woman in her 50s as well as one in her 20s -- if she could afford them. But as rarefied as their construction might be, and as exquisite the fabrics look, the clothes never felt irrelevant. They could be a part of a real person’s life. They could find a home off the runway, off the red carpet and in the streets of a city. Valentino, like Balenciaga, could thrive in the wild.

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Napa Parts Show and Demo 1. Spectators enter the grandstand for the demolition derby. 2. Members of the Kasota Fire Department prepare for the derby. 3. Rae Sabin and Tiah Weringa prepare to sell “Winter Slam” apparel. 4. Ben Strand and Scott Friesen prepare their collectibles table at the Napa Auto Parts Winter Slam. 5. Drivers wait for results in the ‘best paint job’ category.

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From this Valley By Pete Steiner

Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain

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don’t think that I can take it, ‘cause it took so long to bake it ...” As I pursue the process of un-hoarding, I exhume stuff that makes me wonder, WHY did I hold on to that? In the present case, a songbook, “The Music of Jimmy Webb.” Not exactly the Justin Bieber of his era, Jimmy Webb became a darling of the music industry with his piercing blue eyes, lanky frame, Beatles-style haircut (today he’d be labeled “hot”), captivating melodies, and perceptive lyrics. For those of us who lament the state of pop music today, when an ever-shrinking coterie of assembly-line songwriters crank out the majority of sound-alike hits — I call it “Cheerleader Rock” — Jimmy Webb was the real deal, a pretty boy WunderKind who had written megahits like “Up, Up and Away,” “Wichita Lineman,” and “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.” In a time before Spotify and the other rip-off digital-streaming services (I’m with you, Taylor Swift!), back when a songwriter could still make a decent living writing hits, Jimmy Webb and Glen Campbell were, as the astronomers would put it, “binary stars.” Rotating around each other, Campbell became a superstar recording Webb’s songs, Webb became rich off the royalties.

But maybe its melodrama was just the thing for Richard Harris, the stellar actor (King Arthur in “Camelot,” later Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter movies), who wanted to launch a pop singing career. MacArthur Park indeed would become his only bonafide hit, and at seven-minutes-plus, also history-making as one of the longest chart-toppers of all time. Yet it’s been called the worst song ever written (although I wonder if those critics take into account Disco, Hip Hop, the Urban Cowboy phase, Alvin and the Chipmunks, the Barking Dogs, and Los Del Rio.) ••••

•••• So what then accounts for “MacArthur Park”? The year was 1968 — that might be the first clue. That cataclysmic year when everyone really did think the world might be ending soon. Why not an overwrought, almost Wagnerian pop song? (Who was it that said Wagner had some great moments and some long half-hours?) Webb claims he was not “on anything” when he wrote it — an unsurprising suspicion given such lurid imagery in 1968. 60 • April 2017 • MANKATO MAGAZINE

Playboy-bunny cocktail waitresses on parade, with cameos by Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot in their prime. This may disabuse some of the notion that the ’60’s were cool. The song has enough of a story line to indicate it’s about love gone down the tubes. And because it was the ’60’s, the gaudy imagery probably made it a hit when stoned millions exclaimed, “Far out!” Anything “far out” back then was, well, “groovy,” and salable to the masses. But really, “I recall the yellow cotton dress, foaming like a wave … around your knees ...”? Miss Cannaday? •••• Radio stations even into the ’90’s were still using 45 RPM vinyl records to play some hits (and of course, no YouTube to fall back on.) Shortly after I arrived at KTOE (we were still playing music then), when a request came for “MacArthur Park,” a thorough search of hundreds of records could not come up with that one. Apparently a fed-up DJ had tossed the record up above the dropped-ceiling tiles, where it may be gathering dust to this day. Like Richard Harris, he probably cried, “I don’t think that I can take it!” Not one more time hearing Harris, as the finality of the end of the relationship is revealed, shrieking on a high-G, “Oh, no! Oh, no!” ••••

“.. .we followed in a dance … between the parted pages and were pressed in love’s hot fevered iron, like a striped pair of pants.” Say what? I think my English teacher, Miss Cannaday, would have sent Jimmy back to try another draft of that simile. At this point, you might want to access the hideous, semi-psychedelic YouTube video of the song, featuring go-go girls and

In the preface to the songbook, Jimmy Webb describes himself as “an unhappy person ... all my life is a conflict,” and his songs the result. You can read more when you pick it up for 50 cents at our next neighborhood garage sale.

Peter Steiner is host of “Talk of the Town” weekdays at 1:05 p.m. on KTOE.

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