T.S. Flynn

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It’s a long season. Northeast Minneapolis ⚾️ https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/tom-sheehan/ 📸: https://www.instagram.com/mighty_flynn/ x: @mighty_flynn

We’re not in the habit of recognizing celebrity deaths here at 925. That said, Dolly Parton is a national treasure and some folks here joke that Dolly is our Locals patron saint. After all her song “9 to 5” is our anthem. Today we remember all the love and kindness Dolly brought the world.

Tribute-style portrait of a Dolly Parton performing in a ruffled light purple blouse, arm raised and singing into a microphone, overlaid with the lyric: "You're just a step on the bossman's ladder / But you've got dreams he'll never take away."

A guy hears voices, plows under his cash crop, and risks his family’s financial ruin to host ghost games for dead athletes. The takeaway? A severe mental health crisis is totally fine, provided you can successfully monetize Boomer nostalgia to avoid foreclosure.

#OnThisDay July 31 1914: Eric Wickman, a 27-year-old Swedish immigrant laid off from his job, founds Greyhound Bus Lines in Hibbing, Minnesota. By 1935 it was carrying 652 million people annually, surpassing the passenger volume of all the Class I American railroads, combined.

the 1935 greyhound map of the US primarily in yellow, with black lines fanning out from Minnesota, Chicago, and other major cities.