Description: Dave Hoekstra is a Chicago author-producer. He was a columnist-critic at the Chicago Sun-Times from 1985 through 2014, where he won a 2013 Studs Terkel Community Media Award. He has contributed pieces to Chicago Magazine, the Chicago Reader and Playboy Magazine. Dave has written books about the Farm Aid movement, travel and minor league baseball. His new book is about the culture of Midwest supper clubs. http://www.thesupperclubbook.com
Early “North Country Blues” in Hibbing.
HIBBING, MN.–I drove alone into the north country unguarded. I carried no expectation or pretense. A songbird hovered along a roadside lake. A good highway leads to connections.
Hibbing did not disappoint.