RIP Jon Hassler

[Small Town Guy]

Not sure how big he was throughout the nation, but I'm sure every Minnesotan on the board has probably read one of Jon Hassler's novels about small-town life. He'd been hit pretty hard by a Parkinsons-like illness the last few years, but I see he was still churning out books.

http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2008/03/20/1218/1933-2008_jon_hassler_wrote_to_the_end