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  There are 101 allotted spots for boathouses around Latsch Island in Winona, Minnesota, a place where some people live year round off the grid. Over time it’s become an iconic symbol of the town, but it wasn’t always seen in such a celebratory light.<a href="https://www.backchannelradio.org/episodes/episode-01-bonus-river-song">Check out a bonus song Gina recorded to accompany this episode.</a><h3>BONUS MATERIAL:</h3>

There are 101 allotted spots for boathouses around Latsch Island in Winona, Minnesota, a place where some people live year round off the grid. Over time it’s become an iconic symbol of the town, but it wasn’t always seen in such a celebratory light.Check out a bonus song Gina recorded to accompany this episode.BONUS MATERIAL:

&nbsp;There are 101 allotted spots for boathouses around Latsch Island in Winona, Minnesota, a place where some people live year round off the grid. Over time it’s become an iconic symbol of the town, but it wasn’t always seen in such a celebratory light.<a href="https://www.backchannelradio.org/episodes/episode-01-bonus-river-song" rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out a bonus song Gina recorded to accompany this episode.</a>BONUS MATERIAL:

Episode 01: Boathouse 101

Back Channel Radio is a storytelling project committed to preserving and sharing oral histories from beyond the mainstream. This first season, “A Wolf Spider Island Story,” chronicles the legal battles a group of river rats had to wage to keep their small boathouse community on the Mississippi River afloat.

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Back Channel Radio is a storytelling project committed to preserving and sharing oral histories from beyond the mainstream. This first season, “A Wolf Spider Island Story,” chronicles the legal battles a group of river rats had to wage to keep their small boathouse community on the Mississippi River afloat.

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