By Bernie Bischoff I grew up the oldest of ten children on Minnesota’s Iron Range.1 My family lived in the blue-collar, hard-drinking town of Hibbing, where my father had been born. The iron ore mines were bustling while I was growing up, and the economy prospered. Men with high school educations had money to buy nice homes, cabins, cars, trucks, boats, snowmobiles, and alcohol. For many people on “the Range,” drinking alcohol was an end in itself. “Let’s go drinking” [...]