Controversy swirled during the annual herring salad-making get-together at Maria and Fred Pfeiffer’s King William home recently as family members gathered to make batches of the traditional German ...

Many years ago, I was invited to the home of Chris and Virginia Jensen for a New Year's supper. The Jensens were friends of my parents, but this gathering was for David, one of the three Jensen sons, ...

I grew up hearing tales of my great-grandparents and their brood, who lived in a tiny house in the shadow of Barn's Bluff in Red Wing, Minn. It was a mixed marriage: Great-Grandma Petersen was a Swede ...