By Adele Mehta The Morel – our MMS insignia and our State’s official mushroom – what’s the connection? Herb Harper, in “Malfred Ferndock’s Morel Cookbook,” tells the story. At an MMS Board meeting in 1983, discussion arose on how designating a State mushroom might raise the visibility of the club. Harper, a former biology teacher in Forest Lake, called his state senator, Gary Laidig, to propose the idea. Even though he initially thought it was a joke, Senator Laidig drafted a bill ...
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