Minnesota's Lost Towns: Southern Edition
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Author: Rhonda Fochs
Blurbs:
“Rhonda Fochs has given us a great glimpse of the Lost Towns in the Northern, Central and now Southern Minnesota. She shares the histories and anecdotes of the people, the towns, and circumstances of their demise. You will enjoy reading about your area’s Lost Towns. Each Lost Town has a special story, and even when circumstances of several towns are similar, often some quirk of fate or timing makes all the difference on whether a town survives or fades.”
– Mary Theurer, City Council Member, Staples, Minnesota
“Driving by a deserted farmhouse or the ghostly remnants of a once-thriving town reminds us of the brevity of life and how change is inevitable. We are not the first to populate this place, and we will not be the last. Rhonda Fochs captures memories of a bygone time, the spirit of the people who lived here, and those memories at risk of being lost forever. Keep Minnesota's Lost Towns: Southern Edition handy as you travel across Southern Minnesota. You will see these almost-forgotten places with different eyes.”
– Candace Simar, author of Shelterbelts, the Spur Award- winning Abercrombie Trail Series, and Farm Girls
“This vast collection of lost town stories and photographs is a treasure trove of interest for a society that is constantly in transition. Rhonda Fochs draws us close to yesterday’s people and shows us how they lived from the 1800s forward with her dedicated attention to detail. She puts personality into the stories that reveal how uncontrollable forces of nature, along with man’s decisions, have led to either progression or extinction. It is a delightful read."
– Connie Lounsbury, author of Kathleen Creek, Thrift Store Shoes, Reaching Past the Wire: A Nurse at Abu Ghraib, and others.
About the Author: After several years of working in the public and private sector, doing everything from assembling Tonka Toy trucks (when they were made in America), working in a LP record distribution warehouse, serving in a variety of public governmental roles, managing a construction office, to becoming a social studies teacher at the age of forty-two, Rhonda is recently retired. Her passion for history, especially local and regional history, has resulted in the Minnesota’s Lost Towns series, which chronicles Minnesota used-to-be towns and communities. Readers can learn more about Rhonda and her exciting books at www.rhondafochs.weebly.com or at www.facebook.com/MinnesotasLostTowns.
ISBN: 978-1-68201-030-3
Trim Size: 8.5 x 11
Page Count: 256
Publication Date: June 2016
Blurbs:
“Rhonda Fochs has given us a great glimpse of the Lost Towns in the Northern, Central and now Southern Minnesota. She shares the histories and anecdotes of the people, the towns, and circumstances of their demise. You will enjoy reading about your area’s Lost Towns. Each Lost Town has a special story, and even when circumstances of several towns are similar, often some quirk of fate or timing makes all the difference on whether a town survives or fades.”
– Mary Theurer, City Council Member, Staples, Minnesota
“Driving by a deserted farmhouse or the ghostly remnants of a once-thriving town reminds us of the brevity of life and how change is inevitable. We are not the first to populate this place, and we will not be the last. Rhonda Fochs captures memories of a bygone time, the spirit of the people who lived here, and those memories at risk of being lost forever. Keep Minnesota's Lost Towns: Southern Edition handy as you travel across Southern Minnesota. You will see these almost-forgotten places with different eyes.”
– Candace Simar, author of Shelterbelts, the Spur Award- winning Abercrombie Trail Series, and Farm Girls
“This vast collection of lost town stories and photographs is a treasure trove of interest for a society that is constantly in transition. Rhonda Fochs draws us close to yesterday’s people and shows us how they lived from the 1800s forward with her dedicated attention to detail. She puts personality into the stories that reveal how uncontrollable forces of nature, along with man’s decisions, have led to either progression or extinction. It is a delightful read."
– Connie Lounsbury, author of Kathleen Creek, Thrift Store Shoes, Reaching Past the Wire: A Nurse at Abu Ghraib, and others.
About the Author: After several years of working in the public and private sector, doing everything from assembling Tonka Toy trucks (when they were made in America), working in a LP record distribution warehouse, serving in a variety of public governmental roles, managing a construction office, to becoming a social studies teacher at the age of forty-two, Rhonda is recently retired. Her passion for history, especially local and regional history, has resulted in the Minnesota’s Lost Towns series, which chronicles Minnesota used-to-be towns and communities. Readers can learn more about Rhonda and her exciting books at www.rhondafochs.weebly.com or at www.facebook.com/MinnesotasLostTowns.
ISBN: 978-1-68201-030-3
Trim Size: 8.5 x 11
Page Count: 256
Publication Date: June 2016