He was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He grew up 30 minutes from Lake Minnewaska and wrote about life in the small town of Gopher Prairie. His name was Sinclair Lewis and you might remember reading about his "Main Street" in Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.
A generation later, another Minnesotan wrote and told stories about small town life not far from Lake Minnewaska. Garrison Keillor brought small-town living to America with his tales from Lake Wobegon.
It is pretty cool to live near two of the most famous towns in American literature. Both are just up the road from Lake Minnewaska.
You can't consider yourself "well traveled" unless you have been to each of them. They are Lake Wobegon and Gopher Prairie.
My challenge to you is to locate either of them on a map of Minnesota. If you find them, let me know so I can drive over to visit them.
Good luck.
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