After several years of working in the public and private sector, doing everything from assembling Tonka Toy trucks (when they were made in America), working in an LP record distribution warehouse, serving in a variety of public governmental roles, managing a construction office, to becoming a social studies teacher at the age of forty-two, Rhonda is recently retired. Her passion for history, especially local and regional history, has resulted in the Minnesota's Lost Towns series which chronicles Minnesota used-to-be towns and communities. You can learn more about Rhonda and her books at www.rhondafochs.weebly.com or at www.facebook.com/MinnesotasLostTowns.