On June 12, 1993, a woman’s head was found floating in Bone Lake in Scandia, Minnesota. The next day, her foot was found on the banks of the Mississippi River. She remains unidentified.

Lake Mendota had not been on the archaeologist’s radar, and she certainly wasn’t hunting for dugout canoes. Thomsen usually looks for shipwrecks, like 19th-century freighters.

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In the 1970s and ’80s, he owned the Karate Institute in Concord, New Hampshire. His senior years included much boating and fishing on the Florida waterways. He served as president of an Anna Maria ...

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Some of my best memories of knowing Q: fishing trips to Lake Erie for giant walleyes; duck hunting in corn fields off Madison’s Lake Mendota before the outward expansion of Madison and Middleton; ...

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Less than a year after the Mendota Bridge renovation was completed, the Minnesota Department of Transportation said Thursday that higher railings will be installed on the span. At an estimated ...