I was just looking at the train, so I didn’t see that the camera was focused on the grass. Oops.
This is the Amtrak California Zephyr headed for California from Chicago, about to make a stop at Union Station in Denver, Colorado.
The significance of the pipes at hand, per the story:
>Joseph Louis Maymaushkowaush inherited the position from his grandfather, also named Maymaushkowaush, who signed the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe, the agreement that ceded much of northeastern Minnesota to the United States, established the Grand Portage Reservation and reserved hunting, fishing and gathering rights for the band.
>Ojibwe leaders carried pipes to those negotiations. April McCormick, Secretary Treasurer of the Grand Portage Tribal Council, said in announcing the repatriation that the practice "demonstrates that they viewed treaties as sacred oaths between nations."
>The hereditary title ended with Joseph, since succession ran through the male line and he had no son. His pipe was donated to the St. Louis Historical Society in 1939 and has spent almost 90 years in the collection of the St. Louis County Historical Society in Duluth.
Meanwhile, near LaCrosse, WI (LSE) ...
An interesting history of how KSTP-TV, Minnesota's first TV station (as first went on air in 1948) came into being ... including closed-circuit experimental tramsmissions at the 1940 Minnesota State Fair, a beautiful-looking lady serving as an early test card, and the first-ever affiliation agreement (with NBC, as opposed to network-owned-and-operated stations).
>Nudification apps allow for automated abuse. Those that profit from pain should be held to account, and this bill will do that.
--Stefan Turkheimer, Vice-President for Public Safety, RAINN
"And here's the old left-hander, rounding third and heading for home ..."
And you thought the Medicaid Fraud scandal was bad enow already ...
For such of you wanting to know if the Empire Builder or the Borealis is timely, and with real-time information besides!