Deb Henningsen's father taught her to water ski on old Lake Shady in Oronoco, Minn., in the 1960s. "The lake was calm as glass, and he was so patient," said Henningsen, 71, from her family's farm near ...

One hundred years ago this week, a Minnesotan named Ralph Samuelson did something no one ever had. Gripping an iron ring at the end of a rope tied to his brother’s motorboat, the 18-year-old daredevil ...