Pondering the evolution of Minnesota's economy
I am the William E. and Virginia Clemens Professor of Economics and the Liberal Arts at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint Johnโs University in Saint Joseph, Minnesota.
Personal Essays and fiction from former management consultant and racing cyclist Christopher Johnston.
We are small group of academics who live and work in the Avon Hillsโa tract of hills, woods, lakes, marshes, and oak savanna in central Minnesota, roughly contiguous with Keillorโs fictional Lake Wobegon --sharing an interest in writing and public life.
Join me for a weekly glimpse into researching why the great-grandchildren of Kakaygeesick, were dispossessed of their ancestral homeland and what that has to do with me, a white woman whose great-grandparents homesteaded on Lake of the Woods.