Scanning obscure bulletin board property-for-sale classifieds takes you to interesting places.
"2 br 1 bath home ... new furnace and added insulation ... very cute with some updates ... perfect for a starter home or small family ... in Ringsted IA. Desperate need to sell ... $19,500 and offering $3500 cash back after closing. Willing to accept other offers. "
My inner Donald Trump says you could walk into this home with $10,000 and wave good-bye to the previous owners in about ten seconds flat.Then you'd live with a bunch of Ringsted Danes. They founded the place in the 19th Century, and Wiki reports:
The St. Ansgar Danish Lutheran Church was organized by the city's original founders in 1882. In 1894, due to a theological debate about the word of God and activities such as dancing, the Danish Lutheran community was divided into two groups nicknamed "Happy Danes" and "Sad Danes" ... "Happy Danes" did not believe dancing was sinful.
This dreadful theological schism persisted for a century and a quarter, but if I know my Lutherans the jihad was effectuated mostly by refusing to shake hands except at weddings, funerals, threshing bees, and other solemn occasions. In any case, ecumenical harmony was restored four years ago when the warring dancers and long-faces officially reunited.
I haven't discovered if the union sanctions dancing, but if it does you might want to check out the house. A guy could do worse than spend his days living cheaply and prancing the Dansk polka with happy Danes.
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"Happy Danes" strikes me as oxymoronic for some reason...
Ringsted is a scant half-day horseback ride from the Irish Settlement, Emmetsburg, so whisky may have been a factor.
Could be the Sad Danes had no horses. That would validate Marx's theory of economic determinism, even in ecclesiastical matters. :)
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