Actually, my dad grew up in a mining town, Virginia. Minnesota has one of the largest open pit mines in the entire world. It produced a lot of the iron ore that went on a train down to Duluth, where my mom was born, and got on the Great Lakes, ocean ways, or lakeways, and actually stopped in Pittsburgh, stopped in Detroit, and it produced a lot of the steel that won us World War one and World War two. So kind of epic stories of a mining community that my dad grew up in. My mom's grandfather came over from Europe and opened up a cattle trading business. (12:36–12:54)
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