Around Town

It’s time once again to consider all your favorite things about the lake area and vote in our Best of Lake Minnetonka readers’choice  poll.

Metal casting art studios can be hard to come by, but Minnetonka Center for the Arts has its own little foundry. Creating one of these metal sculptures involves plaster and sand molds, wax sculptures, kilns at 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit and an open-minded, flexible artist.

It’s hard to deny that education, whether it be traditional or unique, is the cornerstone to what makes us successful as people. Some of us gain that knowledge in the classroom. Some of us use travel to teach us what we need to know.

For the last six months, my husband Jack and I have been planning a trip to Europe.

Distressed wood floors, comfy leather seats and an open layout greet you when you enter Pique Travel Design, and there is not a brochure in sight. It’s travel done differently.

Sometimes a simple conversation is where it all starts. Consider the power of dialogue: It is where common interests are realized and relationships forged.

As an elementary-schooler living in rural North Dakota, my favorite time of year was summer. Not only did it mean time off from the everyday school schedule, it also meant trading my puffy parka for my trendy two-piece swimsuit.

In The Night Guest, author Fiona McFarlane depicts how dementia has begun in main character Ruth. She knows the tiger she hears snuffling in her living room isn’t real. But it is thrilling.

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