Minnesota Monthly, January 1st, 2003
BOATHOUSES ARE COMMONPLACE along the Mississippi River. For most, they serve a practical purpose: housing boats. But in a cluster of about 100 boathouses gin poled and tethered along Latsch Island, just across the Interstate Bridge from downtown Winona, boathouses house people.
Since the 1960s this floating village of sheet metal, plywood, and barrels has attracted hundreds to river's edge, from nonconformist poets, artists, and musicians to teachers, scholars, even city officials and judges. For some owners, their boathouse acts as an economical fair-weather retreat. For others, these boatho...
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