ALEXANDRIA, Minn. – A former Winona State University professor, Julie Zuehlke, has co-authored what she calls a “bio-simulography” of a Viking settler in Alexandria, where she lives in retirement. A bio-simulography? It’s an imagined history, she explains. The book, “The Big Ole Legend,” is 132 pages. The book was issued by AMP-Squared Books of Alexandria. It’s available e at the Runestone Museum in Alexandria for $50.
Book’s cover. Features the most-photographed Viking statue in the nation. Now home in Alexandria after debut at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.