Letter #194 from Minnesota

Letter #194 comes from Krissy in Minnesota.She wrote a short but sweet note on a beautiful Papyrus card she says she got from Target....I need to go check it out...haven't been to Target in a long time.

Currently,Krissy is taking a couple of summer classes at UMD (I believe that would be the University of Minnesota at Duluth).She has been very busy studying,but has made it a point to find time for fun stuff.She watched her sister compete at sections for track and she has gone to the beach a couple of times.I know when I think of Minnesota,I don't think of beach,I think of snowmen. :) She also went to see a play with her younger sister called "39 Steps".It's an Alfred Hitchcock remake and thought it was quite amusing.I can remember watching Alfred Hitchcock shows with my mom as a kid and I loved them.

Along with her beautiful notecard,she included the ticket stub from the play.Thanks Krissy for the lovely letter on a lovely notecard and your ticket stub,which can be seen below (sans ticket stub since I forgot to take it out for the photo):

Letter #75 from Minnesota

Letter #75 comes from Krissy in Minnesota.She says she is doing something similar to our project and calls it "Year of the Letter".She tries to write at least one letter a day or more.Like ourselves,she is trying to keep letter writing from being a lost art.She loves having a mailbox full of letters.She says she has found some beautiful friendships through letter writing.She also has high hopes for letter writing to stay alive and well.Krissy usually spends 1-2 hours a day working on letters and mailart.

She says she lives in a beautiful area in northern Minnesota.She says it's a woody area filled with friendly people.She says that her grandma once remarked that when she walked into the woods at Kane Lake (a private lake),she couldn't tell whether she was in Norway or Minnesota because they looked so similar.

Krissy's heritage is a beautiful mix of Swedish,Norwegian,Finnish,German and English.A lot of people of Scandanavian descent settled in her area.She says that you can see cars with the flags of Norway and Sweden on them.Krissy and her sister have even dressed up in traditional Norwegian costumes and rode in a parade during Heritage Days,which is a big event in Two Harbors,MN.It lasts for a few days and they have a parade,live bands,etc. and people from all over attend.

Krissy loves to travel and would love to travel to Finland to see where her relatives grew up.

She also recommended some books-A Frozen Hell,which is about the Russo-Fin war during WWII.It's one of her favorite books.She also just finished reading a book called The Glass Castle.It's a memoir of a girl coming of age in an abusive family.She has also read A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Thanks Krissy for your lovely letter.You can see her lovely letter and picture of her in a traditional Norwegian costume that her grandmother sewed for her below.How lovely!

Letter #62 from Minnesota

Letter #62 comes from Jackie in Minnesota.She lives in a suburb of Minneapolis/St. Paul with her husband and they will soon be celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary....congratulations!They also have two grown daughters.

She said that they have received so much snow that they are worried about flooding during the spring time.Thanks Jackie for your letter.As you may not have noticed,she actually turned the letter into an enevelope,too.Very clever. :) Here is her letter below:

Letter #48 from Minnesota

Letter #48 comes from Sara in Virginia,Minnesota...yes, that's correct.I was shocked that there was even a city called Virginia,outisde of Virginia,but there is. :) It is located in the northeast of the state.There are many lakes,rivers and trees in her area and not many large cities around her,just beautiful nature to enjoy.

Sara works as a registered nurse in the surgery department/operating room.That sounds like a very hectic job to work in.She included a paper showing some of the physicians she works with sometimes.She has been doing this job for 13 years and says it's quite interesting.

When Sara is not working,she loves to read,write,listen to music and the news,work on crafts,knit and practice her sewing skills.She also enjoys bellydancing,travelling,bicycling,hiking and photography....seems like she does she great things that she could photograph at the same time.She does say that she loves to take pictures of nature-flowers,etc.She is currently reading "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest" and has enjoyed the trilogy.

Sara has enclosed a visitors guide to her area,a postcard featuring the Hockey Hall of Fame and the other  showing View Point in the Sky in her city.She also sent us some printouts about her state.Thanks Sara for your lovely letter,brochures,postcards and printouts,thanks for taking the time to write to us!Enjoy all of Sara's goodies below-