In Mom's handwriting: "Winter in Minneota, Minn., early 1900's". Minneota was a tiny town of Norwegians and Swedes in southwest Minnesota on the Yellow Medicine River. The nearest place anybody ever heard of is Mashall, about 10 miles to its southeast. Mom said that when she was a kid sometimes the snow was so deep they had to dig tunnels though it. Even today it only has about 1300 people. Norwegian or Swedish were spoken by most people but school, of course, was in English.