ListenIn rural Minnesota, a longtime township clerk puts his faith in neighbors
In every corner of Minnesota, there are good stories waiting to be told of places that make our state great and people who in Walt Whitman’s words “contribute a verse” each day. MPR News sent longtime reporter Dan Gunderson on a mission to capture those stories as part of a new series called “Wander & Wonder: Exploring Minnesota’s unexpected places.”
Loren Ingebretsen has served as clerk of Morken Township since 1980 — but he didn’t really want the job.
A longtime farmer who lives on land his great-grandfather homesteaded in the 1880s, Ingebretsen was happy farming and raising a family, with no interest in politics…