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Posts published by “Eric Bergeson”

Taurus Trouble

Last week, almost one year to the day after I pur­chased my latest vehicle, the odometer turned over to 30,000 miles. Well, it is a green display light that changed to 30,000 miles. Saying it…

The Texting Drug

As more people discover how to send text messages on their ever-present cell phones, we have become a nation of hypnotized zombies who stare into our phones while we drive into telephone poles, walk into…

Stone Mountain

Stone Mountain just east of Atlanta, Georgia is an enormous granite dome, five miles around at the base, circled by sheer gray cliffs which rise out of the Georgia forest. The mountain looms as large…

A Hot Time In The Deep South

As our tour group of 40 history teachers marched deep into Dixie, the temperature rose above 105°. It was a relief to spend time in the air conditioned bus between stops at historic sites. After…

In Praise Of Rest Areas

On the way down to a Twins game a couple of weeks ago, I stopped at a rest area along US Highway 10 just east of Detroit Lakes. Tucked on a hillside in lake country,…

Majority Rules

The recent decision to retire the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux nickname has sent rip­ples across the national sports scene. Gerhard Krauthammer, general manager of the New Jersey Jumping Jews of the Eastern Basketball…

The Katyn Massacre

In May of 1990, I visited the St. Stanislaw Kostka Church in suburban Warsaw with a handful of college students on a study trip to Poland. By the third day, our group was churched out.…

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