This weekend I went with one of my sons to Bob Dylan's hometown of Hibbing Minnesota. It is four hours north of the Twin Cities on the Iron Range. Pictured is Bob Dylan's childhood home on Bob Dylan Drive.What I learned was that Hibbing not only launched Bob Dylan, but also Vincent Bugliosi, graduating from Hibbing High School in 1952, (the prosecuting attourney that successfully prosecuted the Manson family), and Gary Puckett who graduated from Hibbing High School in 1942, (from Gary Puckett and the Union Gap).
It was a small unpretentious mining town that made you work hard to find its famous sons.
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You were only five short miles from my hometown of Chisholm! Ah, Hibbing. They are called "Chuckas" by us loving Chisholmites. LOL! If you ever head back be sure to stop at Rudy's Pizza and Subs and get a Pizza Sub...they are sooo good. You can always eat at "Zimmy's" as well...it was named after Bob. But I have to tell you...he was not all that well liked in Hibbing. He was a bit too much for those folks when he was around. Of course, now that he's hugely famous they are all over that! lol. What you might not have known is in Chisholm (the tiny mining town five miles away) there is a baseball field called "The Field of Dreams". Why? Because Doc "Moonlight" Graham is from Chisholm! Yes, the Doc from the movie is a real person. Although, out town looks NOTHING like it shows in the movie. It's a town in Iowa. Hmph. Anyway, I'm glad you wandered around Hibbing for a bit. It's a nice place to go.
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