


“Minnesota is our 32nd State (1858). Capital: St. Paul. Name derived from the Sioux Indian, meaning sky-tinted water. Its 10,000 lakes are said to have been made by Paul Bunyan’s blue ox, Babe. Longfellow’s famous poem The Song of Hiawatha tells of Minnesota’s waterfalls that ‘flashed and gleamed’ and rivers that rushed through ‘palisades of pine trees'”
“Eight of original 13 states; State capital: Columbia; Area 31,055 sq. miles; State Flower: Yellow Jessamine; State Bird: Carolina Wren”
Drink, Bro, drink; leave your worries at home!
German poetry on wine, stating a preference for wine over lips reveals old age.
This famous tree is in the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, a pleasant drive of 36 miles from the hotels and camps in Yosemite Valley. The “Wawona” tree is 227 feet tall and 90 feet in circumference. In this grove more than 600 giant Sequoias have been growing here for centuries … the earth’s largest and oldest trees.