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Twine Ball Day

Taco in a Bag at Twine Ball Day

by Kelly Westoff on August 15, 2009

About a month ago, I wrote a post about the “limited food options” I faced while traveling in a small Mexican town.
Well, now it’s time to poke fun at my own backyard.
While spending the day in Darwin, Minnesota for the small town’s celebration of Twine Ball Day, once again my food options were [...]

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Twine Ball Museum, Darwin, Minnesota

by Kelly Westoff on August 14, 2009

The Twine Ball Museum in Darwin, Minnesota houses all sorts of memorabilia submitted by townsfolk. This was my favorite:

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Twine Ball Day! Darwin, Minnesota

by Kelly Westoff on August 13, 2009

This was Jen’s idea.
She owns a book called Oddball Minnesota and its full of interesting tidbits about where you can find goofy things like the state’s biggest chicken and a two-story outhouse.
However, she didn’t care about either one of these. She wanted to see the biggest ball of twine.
Yes, twine.
So she [...]

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