More than 20 years ago, former Star Tribune reporter Bob Franklin, who died last month at age 87, changed my life as the embers of nearby fires still burned. “Hey?” he asked at the time. “Have you ...

The first time I heard a Bob Dylan song was at Washington Elementary School in Baxter Springs, where in the auditorium a young music teacher led our class in singing “Blowin’ in the Wind.” I couldn’t ...