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SINCLAIR LEWIS Story
When Harry Sinclair Lewis was born here on a bitter cold day, February 7th.1885, Sauk Centre, Minnesota was a raw prairie town with an unpaved main street and five or six blocks of false store fronts. A gawky, sensitive child who achieved little success in school and was the brunt of every crude piece of horseplay, “Red” Lewis spent most of his youth tagging after his adored older brother and doctor-father, and reading every book he could find. He began to write at age fifteen. Despite the years of lost jobs and false hopes that followed his graduation from Yale University in 1908, he persisted in his determination to be a writer.
With the publication of "Main Street" and "Babbitt", Lewis became a successful novelist and critic of American culture, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930. He returned frequently to Minnesota; never able to deny his underlying attachment to the Northern Middle West, he described it as “..the newest empire of the world…a land of dairy herds and exquisite lakes, of new automobiles and tarpaper shanties and silos like red towers, of clumsy speech and a hope that is boundless.” Lewis’ talent declined and he died alone in Italy on January 10, 1951. As he had requested, his ashes were brought home to Sauk Centre.
The Sinclair Castle, aka Castle Sinclair Girnigoe, is located on the east coast of Caithness, Scotland. Built in the late 1400s or early 1500s, it is considered to be one of the earliest seats of Clan Sinclair. More info on the castle can be found at www.castlesinclairgirnigoe.org/index.html
Sinclair Community College’s founder, David A. Sinclair, was part of Clan Sinclair. Several Sinclair employees, including the college’s current president Steven Johnson, have visited the castle during a trip to Scotland.
This photo was taken by a Sinclair employee during a recent trip to Scotland.
My mid 1960's Sinclair bagpipes as I've known them since my Mom and Dad bought them in the late 60's.