Macy’s Schmacy’s. Black Friday. Crack Friday. In these parts, the after-holiday tradition is the Aitkin Fish House Parade, held every Friday after Thanksgiving. This year, of course, was no different.
The event, theoretically, marks the beginning of the ice-fishing season, though there’s very little ice on Mille Lacs Lake and environs.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins