Month: January 2006

Dave writes: We took this while in Glacier Bay, Alaska a couple weeks back. PS- I really enjoyed Musicapolis (6/05). I am 44 and grew up watching and listening to many local and regional bands. Thanks, Dave Author(s) and Location: David and Kelli Muller, Minnetonka

Christine writes: This photograph was taken in Ulan Bataar, Mongolia while doing medical work there in October 2005 with forheartsandsouls.org. Christine Larson RN of Stillwater was part of a team of 21 doctors and nurses who went to Mongolia to screen children for heart defects. The team also taught surgical repair of minor heart defects…

The Rake in Tokyo Bay, Tokyo, Japan. Author(s) and Location: Andrew Hine, St. Paul

Alan writes: Here is a picture from the Royal Palace in Visegrad, Hungary. King Corvinus made this palace his summer home and it is said the red marble fountains in the palace flowed with wine. We are sitting on a wall overlooking the Danube. Author(s) and Location: Alan and Sandy Flom

Bruce writes: The attached picture was taken at Havre, Montana on Wednesday Oct 12, 2005. I am standing next to Great Northern locomotive 2584. This 382 ton locomotive fascinates passengers on Amtrak’s Empire Builder. Built in 1930 to pull the Empire Builder and other Great Northern passenger trains, 2584 was placed on display next to…

At the top of a high hill on the north side of Amman, Jordan, a Baghdadi grocer tends his tiny store. In a ten- by twenty-foot space, he’s crammed just about anything a reasonable person could need: eggs and milk in an uncooled refrigerator, meat in tin cans, shampoos and soaps in faded, dusty bottles,…