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<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nThis picture is from the last time I saw these cousins all together – 1998\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.and it wasn\u2019t taken in MN or NJ or NY. It was taken with their tootsies in the Atlantic Ocean in Emerald Isle, NC.<\/span><\/p>\n They don\u2019t all currently live in MN, but they might be surprised to learn that I have a MN collection. It\u2019s a small collection and I\u2019ve been looking for a way to present it and blending in a family connection is all I could come up with, so thanks, guys!<\/span><\/p>\n Conveniently for me, the impetus for this collection is the very city I live in and if you thought you\u2019ve heard a ton about Hackensack, NJ, get ready for:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n HACKENSACK, MINNESOTA!<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yes, there is such a place and wouldn\u2019t you know\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.it was founded by two guys from Hackensack, NJ.<\/span><\/p>\n Unlike the NJ version, whose population is pushing 45,000, the MN one is just over 300. Its literature says it\u2019s the gateway to lake paradise (127 lakes within a 10-mile area? I guess so.)\u2026\u2026\u2026.a \u201cland of summer comfort\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n Its most-famous \u201cresident\u201d was born in the early 1950s, is 17\u2019 tall and she\u2019s Paul Bunyan\u2019s \u201csweetheart\u201d. Until around 1991 when her head blew off during a storm, she was VERY homely, had no hands (arms were joined at the wrists) and had a HUGE sideways bulge in her \u201cskirt(?)\u201d in the right knee area. I couldn\u2019t tell you if she was hiding some sort of monstrous growth or maybe the football team was in there.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oh, HER NAME!…………LUCETTE DIANA KENSACK! Long ago, there was a contest to name her and a woman from Iowa came up with the winning(?) entry (runner-up: \u201cLanda Happy Waters\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n Fortunately, I don\u2019t have to write everything I\u2019ve learned about this place. I have TWO nearly-identical brochures from 1963 and 1969 (guess who\u2019s on the cover):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n When you partially open it, you get these two pages:<\/span><\/p>\n (a fishing contest held at a \u201chi-way trading post\u201d?)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n (an \u201cIndian POW-WOW every Thursday night\u201d?):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The centerfold (Baby Lake, Kid Lake, Woman Lake?) (click to enlarge):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The back cover:<\/span><\/p>\n I posted about this in 2009: http:\/\/www.hackensacknow.org\/index.php\/topic,1062<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n By the way………..her new face is a bit more human (and she has hands!), so I\u2019m guessing that Paul visits more often now \u2013 especially now that there\u2019s a Paul Jr standing next to her:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Well, I can honestly say that we\u2019ve got nothing like ANY of that in my<\/em> Hackensack.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n On a somewhat less exciting note, I\u2019ve also got a small Hackensack, MN postcard collection:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is the front of that last card. According to the postmark, it was written 70 years ago:<\/span><\/p>\n
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