Kent Otto Stever

Growing Up on the Mississippi: The 1950s in Winona, Minnesota Kent Otto Stever

Charming stories of small town life in Winona, Minnesota, in the 1950s. The book is "a joyous autobiography containing stories, local histories and snippets of life found in the river town of my youth."A reviewer writes that the new book "opens the floodgates of memory for long-time Winonans and kick-starts a time machine that sends all readers back to vivid scenes from Winona's past. Mixing extensive research with personal narrative, Stever's 'Growing Up On the Mississippi' offers more than dry history, but the vibrant details of life in another time in the island city."It is "a love affair with a town and growing up."