Echoes from the Heartland : essays, folklore, and other true stories
(Book)

"From being kind to a stranger to a scary helicopter ride in the Arctic. From an accidental self-inflicted knife wound spurting blood, to the "death" of a beloved tent, to the adventures of a twelve year-old paper boy circa 1960. Stories gleaned from living half his life on both coasts and the landlocked borders of our country, to living the other half in that Heartland called Minnesota. That wide-open rolling prairie. That Big Sky. That Home. ... Traveler and self-professed "Social Observer" Michael Wellner invites you to share his observations of people and place he encounters in his own little town & country life, all seemingly unrelated. A little girls with a wagon, an expert repairman, invisible well-to-do folks who fund dozens of scholarships and a reticent old fishing guide who teaches him the value of "the fewer words the better." Turn the pages and come along with him as he learns step by step that he does, in fact, have "A Sense of Place" after all. Maybe you will learn something too."--Page [4] cover.