The Cracker Barrel: Winter nights

The Cracker Barrel: Winter nights

There is something profoundly joyful about our north-country winter nights. Granted, it’s fashionable to gripe about the length and severity of Minnesota’s major season. Nobody really likes acute discomfort; moderate, maybe, but not acute. And there is such a thing as cabin fever, though I suspect the same symptoms would manifest themselves in someone cooped up inside all summer long. But balanced against the customary complaints we find an impr…