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Why the heck does the Buffalo Ridge need a blog?
Traditional media tend to locate in population centers. As bottomlands like rivers and oceans made water travel easiest until a bit over a century ago, cities along those waterways tended to become population centers. The railroads came later, but they avoided ridges like ours, it was much easier to move thousand ton trains up (and down) flat valleys. The highways pretty much followed the railroads, leaving the ridges and highlands with scant populations and starved for news, and especially news of local import.
That’s a news vacuum that BuffaloRidgeBlog intends to fill!
Good writing. Interesting tales. Thanks.
Exactly where is Buffalo Ridge?
Maybe saying so and listing the vitals would add to the readers experience.
All these good thoughts are coming from St. Marys, Georgia, right on the coast and the Florida border.
Thanks! The Buffalo Ridge is a divide between the Mississippi River and Missouri River watersheds in southwest Minnesota, northwestern Iowa, and southeastern South Dakota.
Well, a quick check of God Google maps says you’re in Colorado a bit south of Wyoming smack in the middle of Routt National Forest. Are you sure you aren’t there? It seems nice, all green.
You know, or maybe not since you might be lost, bike GPS devices can, like people, lose their direction and location in life. If, however, you are where you are in SW MN, NW IO, SE SD, how many people live there with and/or near you?
Beside blog for good living, what do you and ? all ? the other BRR (Buffalo Ridge residents) do for a living?
Not that the BRR asked, but I write LTE (Letters to the Editor) for fun but they don’t pay well like blogging.
Georgia out
Hello!
I was put in charge of shocking life back into the CD7 DFL website (http://local.dfl.org/cd7) and was wondering if I could link to your blog? I think it would be really interesting to include a section dedicated to “The Voices of the Seventh” with a blog roll of regional writers/thinkers.
Hope all is going well!
Joshua Preston
State Director
prest202@morris.umn.edu