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Words and maps, woods and waters, people and places. 📍 May Township, Minnesota 🔗 gregseitz.com 🦋 @stcroix360.com
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · Sep 15
Author (that's me) hopes ‘deep map’ of the St. Croix River watershed will inspire others www.twincities.com/2025/09/14/s...
Author hopes ‘deep map’ of the St. Croix River watershed will inspire others
Greg Seitz is working on it as an artist-in-residence at the historic Pine Needles cabin on the St. Croix River.
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 1d
This is much good news.
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This is much good news.
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New town every hour @townsusa.bsky.social · 4d
Denham, Minnesota
Pop: 34

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denham,_Minnesota

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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 4d
Very 20th century!
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 5d
There have been no independent confirmations of his supposed years at sea, but this book published during May's lifetime seems pretty credible.
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 5d
Your dad was Jim Mason! Too cool. I have his dissertation, it's amazing. Yeah, often hard to separate the man from the myth around here.
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 5d
A one paragraph bio that is pretty accurate to what I know. I have quite a bit of Morgan May stuff I'm happy to share. What's your interest?
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 5d
"We live not alone in the present but also in the past and future. The radius that circumscribes our lives must necessarily extend back indefinitely and forward infinitely."
- George Warner, History of Washington County and the St. Croix Valley, 1881
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 7d
Today, thanks to funding approved by President Joe Biden, the Minnesota legislature, and Midco, we joined the 21st century.
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 9d
Yup.
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 9d
Stillwater #NoKings
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 10d
Getting ready to embark on a river voyage of film and music with my friends at the Square Lake Festival, the Cactus Blossoms, and the kickoff of a St. Croix River film contest.
A large paddlewheeler boat tied up at a dock A placemat on a table in a large room on a boat A river with the a partially green bluff with some fall colors visible and a blue sky with a few white clouds
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 11d
"players will continue to meet this standard moving forward" is some remarkable syntax
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 12d
New cell tower in Marine on St Croix visible from a long stretch of river. It's needed for the town and the banks are already lined by houses on that side, so I can't get super worked up. But it's another blemish. And certainly not great for the many birds that migrate up and down the river.
A river with gray skies and a cell tower protruding from bluffline
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 16d
I'm honestly reconsidering the veracity of this description. It's exactly what it appeared to be but then I remember seeing conduit roughly this size coming out of a nearby spring and disappearing in this direction. I'll go back tomorrow to check.
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St. Croix 360 @stcroix360.com · 17d
Missing Miskobineshii: The legacy of a St. Croix tribal elder www.stcroix360.com/2025/09/miss...
Missing Miskobineshii: The legacy of a St. Croix tribal elder
A year after her passing, more words and wisdom.
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Steve Voelker @thetreecorener.bsky.social · Sep 19
You think you know oak trees by their bark? Here are two >200 year old bur oaks I sampled in Northern Wisconsin, a St Croix River flood plain/terrace.
Twos similarly sized bur oak stems amidst lush, green, mid-summer floodplain vegetation. The stem on the left has thick furrows in the bark that cast shadows making it appear very dark whereas the stem on the right has relatively thin and closely appressed and peeling bark that makes the tree appear much lighter in color. Both trees have a blue-handled increment borer inserted into the stem and a backbpack at the base.
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 17d
Unusual King Tides is also cool
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 18d
I'm pretty sure it is Saturday
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 19d
"Just like children sleepin'
We could dream this night away"
A rising harvest moon reflected in a river, framed by mostly silhouetted white pine limbs
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 20d
I'm listening!
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 22d
My greatest fear
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 22d
And now Sconnies are surely coming here for legal cannabis! Makes you think.
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 22d
Re: The river crossing's criminal past.
“There was moon coming across from Somerset,” said Gilbert Walker, who operated the Marine ferry during the later years of Prohibition. “The ferry was a twenty-four hour deal,” he said and was based on the Minnesota side of the river. The road to the ferry from Wisconsin formed the border between St. Croix County and Polk County and was known locally as “County Line Road”. Many of the bootleggers hid the liquor under a load of wood in their pickup trucks. They crossed from Wisconsin. It was usually at night and Gilbert had his home at the landing. The bootleggers used a telephone system which had a crank that would ring a bell. This woke Gilbert and he slipped into coveralls and leather slippers and crossed over. The bootleggers always left a jug for Gilbert on the Wisconsin side. After they were across the river and safely on their way to the cities, Gilbert crossed back over and picked it up. At the land “there was always someone who wanted a drink now and then,” he said. “The Feds watched the boat like a hawk,” said Gilbert. Federal agents always betrayed themselves as “someone who was hanging around with an unfamiliar car.” The agents monitored the crossing from the old quarry above and behind the landing on the Minnesota side where Gilbert stored his canoes. From a cabin on the landing, Gilbert signaled with a light to the bootleggers whether it was safe to cross or not, “if the coast was clear or get the hell out,” said Gilbert. There was pride in Gilbert’s voice when he said, “They (the Feds) never did catch anyone there.”
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Greg Seitz @gregseitz.com · 22d
The river is so low right now, I bet the fugitive was able to walk across.
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