SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- Described as half travelogue, half history, Sioux Falls author Patrick Hicks has a new book out.

It's called Greater Minnesota, Exploring the Land of Sky Blue Waters. Patrick Hicks is the author of a dozen books, many of them poetry, but the last three… Across the Lake, In the Shadow of Dora and the Commandant of Lubizec, all dealt with the Holocaust. So, Hicks says it was time for a change to something lighter.

"And just for my own sort of mental state, I needed to back off. Being in that darkness for 15 years, I needed to write something that was full of joy and curiosity," said Hicks.

After living in Ireland, Germany, and Spain for many years, he landed in Sioux Falls as a professor at Augustana University, just 15 miles from the border of his home state o

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