Highway 61

[lsanderson]

Highway 61, Visited
By STEVE DOUGHERTY

IN his recently published memoir, "Chronicles: Volume One," Bob Dylan describes what may or may not be a typical night at home. He and a houseguest, Bono of U2, stay up all night and polish off a case of Guinness while talking about their shared literary hero Jack Kerouac and their mutual love of back-roads America. "I told him that if he wants to see the birthplace of America, he should go to Alexandria, Minn.," where, he explains, "the Vikings came and settled in the 1300's."

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[avt-tor.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure there really were "Vikings" in the 1300s, their expansionist civilization kind of collapsed in the 11th century, mostly assimilated into some of the places (Ireland, Normandy, Sicily) that they had occupied.

Though Nova Scotia celebrated its 600th anniversary back in 1998, citing western European settlements dating back a century before Columbus.

The Runestone..

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Is pretty widely considered a fake even here in Minnesota...

Two corrections or where am them fact checkers anyway?

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

"The author of the Dylan piece has two errors. Dylan did not sit in with Bobby Vee when Buddy Holly died. It was about a year later that Dylan spent a summer in Fargo and hooked up with Vee's band. And, also, the Holly concert was in Moorhead, not Fargo."