Greg Obern

I made a trip through Michigan, Indiana and Illinois the summer it was 100 degrees every day and went through Mooreland Indiana , where everyone's ancestors came from Kentucky on the back of a flatbed truck.

Mel Bay publications were recommended by guitar salesman Jeff F. from Proctor Hermantown

(Per Hansa)Peter Hanson's wife slowly goes insane surrounded by a sea of grass, a plague of grass hoppers, blizzards. Indians have a meeting on "their claim" after Peter pulls up wooden stakes (jumps an Irishman's prior claim). In the middle of a blizzard, Peter goes several miles west to the Irish settlement for a doctor for his neighbor from the same town in Norway. Next spring peter is found sitting next to a hay bale with "a thousand yard stare". The Norwegian settlement disappears within 10 years or moves on...