- Late night. I looked out the back window and saw a jacketed man standing on top of our shed. He was not moving. I turned off the lights to avoid being seen but he disappeared. I went outside to investigate and discovered a key inserted into our side garage door, unlocked, and upon entering the garage woke up screaming. Later I dreamed I was a sniper and felt the distinct experience of it being wrong.
- Red Wing’s “Stone Age” (mnopedia.org)
Thanks to the limestone bluffs and hills that surrounded Red Wing, the town became a Minnesota lime-making and stone quarrying center from 1870 to 1910. Those forty years are sometimes known as the city’s “Stone Age.”