User:Ray.lowry

I was a public school in Minnesota for 25 years. I taught most subjects, but my main interest was in history. When Wikipedia was a new thing 20 years ago, I became involved with a professor from Southwest State University in Marshal, Minnesota. His goal was to recruit and teach a group of us how to use and edit Wikipedia, so that we could create and edit pages on the history, geography, culture, etc., of Southwest Minnesota. I focused mainly on my home-county of Nobles County, Minnesota.

I am disappointed in recent years that the great small-D democratic promise of Wikipedia has become hijacked by internet trolls.

My work includes
Adding historical, geographical, and political info, as well as maps and photos, to the following cities, towns, villages, and townships in Nobles County, Minnesota:

Towns and cities in Nobles County: Unincorporated communities in Nobles County Census-Designated Places in Nobles County: Townships in Nobles County: Lakes in Nobles County
 * Adrian
 * Bigelow
 * Brewster
 * Dundee
 * Ellsworth
 * Kinbrae
 * Lismore
 * Round Lake
 * Rushmore
 * Wilmont
 * Worthington
 * Org
 * Reading
 * St. Kilian
 * Leota
 * Bigelow Township
 * Bloom Township
 * Dewald Township
 * Elk Township
 * Graham Lakes Township
 * Grand Prairie Township
 * Hersey Township
 * Indian Lake Township
 * Larkin Township
 * Leota Township
 * Lismore Township
 * Little Rock Township
 * Lorain Township
 * Olney Township
 * Ransom Township
 * Seward Township
 * Summit Lake Township
 * Westside Township
 * Wilmont Township
 * Worthington Township
 * Lake Okabena
 * Lake Ocheda
 * Indian Lake
 * Graham Lakes

Other pages I have created or made substantial contributions to
 * Samuel Pandolfo, Minnesota's Almost Auto-Magnate
 * The Gitchie Manitou Murders
 * Wirock, Minnesota, a Ghost Town in the Making
 * Bruce, Minnesota, Going, Going, Gone...
 * Whip Gate and the Ongoing Southern Border Crisis
 * Bank Robbery by Bonnie and Clyde at Okabena, Minnesota
 * Wilder, the small town that almost made it…