Meet Marvin Link, Stan's seat neighbor at tonight's dismal (13-2) Twins game. Marvin is the son of the late Art Link, a governor and U.S. Congressman for the State of North Dakota. Art was a great friend of Halvor Rolfsrud, Stan's state senate uncle. Marvin grew up near Watford City, No. Dak., where Stan's grandparents homesteaded over 100 years ago and descendants still farm. Marvin knows all of Stan's cousins there, especially the late Louise Haugen, who raised a family near the Link farm at Alexander. Marvin mentioned Stan's cousins Arnold, Harold and Karen. And he knew the Veeder name. He moved to Milan, Minnesota, in 1974 and has been farming there since. Tonight he took a break from combining soybeans and drove with other family members (see photo below) to enjoy a Twins game and just happened to sit right next to Stan and Kathleen. Stan and Marvin (total strangers until tonight) started chatting about crops and farming and before long the family connection was made. Yes, there are Erling Rolfsrud books in the Link household. And yes, it is a small world.
