Tom Isern's Post on Facebook

 Sitting and reading with Tuch early this morning, I find once again it's good to have a friend like Lynn Bueling. Otherwise, I would think it impossible that anyone else in North Dakota had read Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen. (Isern is a history professor at NDSU.)

Lynn Bueling

Hey, this is a surprise! Yes, I pull it off the shelf every once in a while and select passages that appeal to me. I especially like "... almost at the outset cowboys began to try to cultivate an image that the media told them was theirs." Now I'm caught up in the story of the German army's surrounding Leningrad early in WWII and the starvation of the population in spite of the presence of the world's largest seed bank in their midst, seeds which could have prevented some of the starvation. The botanists were truly dedicated in protecting them for the future. It's the topic of my next article.