Moleskin 2.6: Red River Valley

Joshua Paul was born on the Minnesota side of the Red River Valley during the post-Woodstock years, son of a young pastor and organist team who proudly served a two-point parish. It was during the first four years of Joshua’s life, about which he surely remembers little, that my own memories began to form in full color: now we lived alongside the Buffalo River, whose floodstages our mother would monitor as a side job; as a family, we immersed ourselves in the farming culture, appreciating the black gold soil around us and the sugar beets and soy fields that practically blended into our yard; and, as my brothers toddled at home, I started going to Glyndon Elementary by way of a big yellow school bus. And we got to know our neighbors: the Ericksons and Andersons, the Johnsons and the Kassenborgs.