The Minnesota State Fair commences today, and with it, many articles of Minnesota history and state-fair nostalgia are making their way around the usual news circuits. Here are a few of interest:
-MPR’s Cathy Wurzer checks out obscure places at the fair.
-Excitement has been building for weeks (er, months) about the newest food-on-a-stick offerings. A few of the most interesting new concoctions on sticks: Pot roast sundae and chocolate-covered watermelon.
-The Minnesota State Patrol exhibit will include a trooper’s completely totaled car.
-There is, apparently, a bacon haiku contest. You have until 2 p.m. today to enter.
-The state fair is on Facebook.
Other non-fair Minnesota shout-outs in the news:
-In an article about how Pittsburgh’s literary scene is flourishing, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette crowns Minneapolis “the capital of alternative publishing in the eyes of many.”
-Jennifer Balderama writes about meeting an all-too-likely nemesis in the Boundary Waters area of northern Minnesota on the NYT Paper Cuts blog.