WINONA, Minn. – A keepsake mug with Winona images has been created by a teen-age Minnesota artist and stocked for sale at the Winona Visitor Center on Huff Street. Willow Larson of the Red River Valley town of Fertile depicts seven Winona images on the mug — the Mississippi River, the Wagon Bridge, the Choate building, the Watkins building, the Polish Museum, Sugar Loaf, and, of course, Bloedow Bakery. Larson has done keepsake mugs for other Minnesota communities too. In fact she has 150 town designs. Her sales so far total 10,000 mugs. The Winona mug: $22.
99 botles of beer on the wall. Err, we mean mugs. Willow Larson’s custom Winona mugs are now among those at the Visit Winna tourist shop.
Larson. Town-centric mug-maker.