Local View: Like Caesar's Rome, US feeling more vulnerable

Local View: Like Caesar's Rome, US feeling more vulnerable

On South German Street in New Ulm, Minnesota, sits a little pink house with two bedrooms and an attic, which served as overflow sleeping space for the younger kids once the offspring outnumbered the adults. Beneath the rarely used front step, an old cistern became home to a surprising number of spotted northern leopard frogs. One rainy morning, I collected a few and placed them in a large canning jar, punching holes in the lid with a Phillips-he…