Location Secret to Fledgling Business
Souvenir markers make unique gifts
By Jerry Zgoda
Star Tribune Staff Writer
Minneapolis Star Tribune
July 2000
Sometimes inspiration can be summoned from the strangest places. From a 3-inch hole in her kitchen floor, a Minneapolis woman has created a growing business selling recreations of geographical markers you would find if you reached the summit of Mount McKinley or ventured to the South Pole.
Betty Risser, a Dayton's alterations fitter for the past 23 years, got the idea while remodeling her Northeast Minneapolis home six years ago. A friend, Minneapolis artist Stuart Klipper, was...