By Jeff Olsen
Looking on the bright side with a 1930 model
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April 9, 2016
Bernie with his handmade furniture
Sit a spell with Bernie Bohlinger over on Mattson Island northeast of Roseau, and he's never dull.
He insists there's nothing newsworthy about his life and that he is just an amateur whittler.
He's wrong on both accounts.
In late March, he was in his kitchen in the house he built.
He's a lifelong bachelor who grew up in a family of 10 kids when times were tough and tragedy was never far away.
His brother, Bob, seven years his senior, fought and died on Okinawa in 1945.
But let's start at the beginning for the native of Richland, Wisconsin, who moved up to Roseau County with his family in 1...
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