Bring Warm Clothes (1996)

It is a question that almost anybody who has ever come to the Upper Midwest in winter asks: "Why on earth did you ever settle here?" Merely to say it is cold doesn't quite capture it. Bone-chilling is closer. Raw, relentless, unfathomable, mind numbing cold - that says it better still. In the book Bring Warm Clothes, Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Peg Meier finds the answer to the - True stories from some of the people who settled here. People whose courage and fears, humor and hardships helped shape who we Minnesotans are today.