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Article: NO KIDDING -- NORTH DAKOTA
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 23, 1992
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CopyrightCopyright 1992 Chicago Sun-Times. (Hide copyright information)
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RUGBY, N.D. Minnesota wits, who can be cruel, like to say that the
state tree in neighboring North Dakota is the telephone pole.
That gibe may fit your image of North Dakota, if indeed you have
one: a flat and empty landscape best seen as a blur from the
interstate highway. It lies somewhere north of Mount Rushmore,
somewhere south of the Arctic Circle, and somewhere outside your
realm of vacation candidates.
Kidding aside, I'm just back from four days in North Dakota -
which is located literally at the heart of North America, boasting
the continent's geographical center in the town of Rugby.
And yes, this was a pleasure trip, not a work-release sentence -