DavidKnight wrote:
Here's my dad and his sisters playing around in an igloo he built around 1942 on our farm near Lake Itasca in Minnesota. I guess the igloo building runs cold in my blood.

Heh, that explains it all. Welcome to the forum David.
My roots? Just the neighbor kids and me passing the time in North Dakota. We had one snowcave destroyed by a snowplow when we weren't in it. Lucky.