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The burning question in my mind is whether you helped build any of those great ice sculptures at Michigan Tech. I lived in Ontonagon and I remember driving up to Houghton and seeing them.

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Winter Carnival -- I can't take any credit for that. The really impressive sculptures were the work of the engineering students and the frats, not grad students in the Humanities department. I vaguely remember some students at St. Albert the Great University Parish making a little replica of St. Peter's Square one year, and I may have helped out with that in some small way, but I don't remember the details.

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In the historic winter I lived in God's Country, I had a VW with electrical problems and the nearest VW repair shops were in Houghton or Hurley, WII. Those displays are breath-taking - as are the homes of Hancock under the lights and under 4' of snow.

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