Local View: Competitive, not vicious, curling a winter-survival strategy

Local View: Competitive, not vicious, curling a winter-survival strategy

Minnesota winters are long, dark, and generally hostile to human happiness. It is perhaps no surprise then that Minnesotans have developed an impressive range of diversions. In fact, we are world champions at taking perfectly normal pastimes and saying, “Ya know, let’s put that on ice.” Fishing? Ice fishing. Football? Hockey. Walking? Falling. So, of course, bocce ball eventually became curling, bocce’s frozen, plaid-wearing cousin from the Rang…