St. Vincent Memories

A   broadside announcing an upcoming performance (apologies re: language) [Published by Pioneer Express]  In the late 19th and early ...

John K. "Jack" McCulloch Jack McCulloch came to Pembina to put on an exhibition skating, the year he turned professional.  I...

In Minnesota fairs are older than the state itself, having  "made their appearance ... in the early 1850's," just at the  zen...

These are photographs from the Larson Family Collection. Before there was an Interstate Drive-In (just west of the old KCND-TV building i...

Source:  Pembina Pioneer Press ( August 13, 1897 ) I n his book, “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the American Stage and Screen ,” drama professo...

Projector from Grand Theatre [Kittson County Museum Collection] T he Grand Theatre was Hallock's (MN) movie palace.  I was recentl...

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain — and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light....  ...

Photo Source:  James McClelland T he team in the picture above is from the early 1960s. It was made up of players from Emerson , Domin...

Elmer Maxwell's tiny gas station   [Photo: Ronald Cox] A woman who wore black and often wore a veil, and would garden early in the ...

Huron City (1883 Plat Map) Source:  HistoricMapWorks.com I 've written about Huron City a few times here before; and of course C...

Click HERE to see this recent video about Norval Baptie... I have written about Norval Baptie before , but at the time it was short an...

"... H umboldt always had outside presentations called lyceums. One lyceum featured three black singer singers. Another lyceum displ...

We can now confirm that the Guess Who played many times in Hallock, and we have it from the great Donny Hunt, who was a musician in his ow...

Metis Rider; note the beaded saddle blanket... ...The following month, the annual horse race known as the Dufferin races, was held in E...

Circa the late 1940s/early 1950s @ the Short's Cafe... 'The food is not Stranger and we are never Short on customers' ...

I n this edition of the "Water Cooler", St. Vincent natives recall the simple pleasures of curling and ice skating. I am younger...

'Birdman' Beachey,  putting on flying show at the Hamilton Fair [Reprinted with permission] W hen Orville and Wilbur Wright ...

Among the most beautiful summer resorts is Walhalla, "The Garden of the Gods." Here nature has been particularly lavish in sprea...