Robert (Bob) Peterson began writing a column for the Trimont Progress in 1971. Always an avid reader and frequent author of letters to the editor, Robert expressed an interest in writing a regular column and the editor agreed to a trial period.



Making his home in southern Minnesota with wife Irene and five children on the shores of Cedar Lake in Martin County, he observed events locally and globally and freely commented on ecology, politics, religion, philosophy, local history and people, agriculture, education, sociology and frequently what he deemed most important: bullhead fishing in Cedar Lake