My Stories

Thomas Smith

Reunions Revisited

July 2019 During an 1,100-mile drive home the day after a class reunion, you have a lot of time to think. On Sunday, I

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Thomas Smith

Mayberry, Colorado

It’s a smaller world than I thought. During my three decades away from Minnesota, I’ve developed a moral obligation to visit with everyone I

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Thomas Smith

When I Grow Up

Up, old, be, do. Perhaps never in the history of humanity has a story opened with those four words. During my pre-teen years—perhaps before

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Thomas Smith

Art Done Rite

I spent a lifetime ignoring art until I couldn’t. DaVinci’s masterpiece did nothing for me. The work of lesser known, Glenna Goodacre, stopped me

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Thomas Smith

An “Up North” Treasure

Amid a half-century of athletics involvement in Two Harbors, Minnesota, he never scored a touchdown on the gridiron, a goal on the ice, or

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Thomas Smith

The Boys of Leatherbrook

“Going to the state tourneys was quite an experience. We were a bunch of naive kids from a mining town, with barely a collared shirt in our closets. Many of our opponents were country club kids. We didn’t really fit in but we stuck together and played our best. Sometimes, our best was pretty good, relative to the competition.”

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