Category: Minnesota...

glaciation carved more than 15,000 lakes out of the surface of Minnesota
working on a snow sculpture in International Falls, Minnesota
about one in four Minnesotans is at least part Scandinavian
greater Minnesota is known as Outstate Minnesota, the region outside the Minneapolis - St. Paul metropolitan area
Native Americans from as faraway as the Appalachians and the Rocky Mountains met in a sacred place of peace in southwestern Minnesota to quarry a hard red rock that was used for making peace pipes (now Pipestone National Monument)
Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average. (Garrison Keillor)