Even Frozen, We’re the City of Festivals

It’s winter. I know — it’s the kind of season that makes you want to [...]

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The Local Connection

First of all, WELCOME to my new little corner on Visit Winona’s new digs. I [...]

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A River Worthy of a Bow Tie

You know, living here right next to the Mississippi River, it’s pretty easy to begin [...]

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Putting the Epic in Epicenter

Let’s face it, Winona is kind of the epicenter of everything that’s good about the [...]

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Spring Salvation

Spring has sprung, and if you are at all familiar with Winona’s annual event calendar, [...]

Some like it frozen

You have to admiT – it’s kind of amusing that the thing making Winona (and [...]

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The Winona Factor

So Winona had an exciting run in the spotlight for the last couple of months [...]

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A fall walk on the wild side

It’s pretty freaking glorious to be us in Winona right now. I mean, it usually [...]

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Wacky, wild, wonderous Winona

  You’d think after a couple of decades in a place I’d have seen it [...]

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Let the music play…

Dear Music lovers and Music Curious, You may have heard a little something about this [...]

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Food for thought…

It occurred to me recently that if suddenly every road and airstrip leading to Winona [...]

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Thanks for the memories~

When you live in a town for long enough, everywhere you go conjures up a [...]

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Fresh air and river livin’

I have to say, living next to one of the country’s most beautiful waterways has [...]

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Love in my tummy…

Yummy, yummy, yummy, I got love… well – you know the song. At least I [...]

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The Legendary Trinona

It seems kind of early to be talking about summer races, but not if you [...]

Patio heaven

As summer draws into fall I am especially appreciative of a growing commodity in Winona, [...]

Life on the fringe…

This town is so cool. Everybody has Fridays, right? Yeah, big deal. Winona takes that [...]

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A Shakespeare love affair~

So I was at a little shindig this week at the Winona County History Center [...]

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A bar with no name

…I went through Winona to a bar with no name, it felt good to be [...]

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Spring sunshine on the Mississippi

Finally. As I stood on the banks of the Mississippi River at Verchota Landing last [...]

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The hills are alive…

No, this is not a post about horror movies, silly. It’s a post about music, [...]

Winona loves its history…

It’s beginning to look a lot like spring out there, and you know what that [...]

People are talking…

So I was up in the Twin Cities last weekend with a cadre of newspaper [...]

Attention snow lovers…

I know – when you think of Winona you think of all our historic buildings, [...]