St. Vincent Memories

Jim Benjaminson shared today:   Well, its getting closer to reality - "Sagas of Pembina County, 1867-2017" is at the printer...

[Note — General Manager McDougal of the Pershing Way [Association] , who was for a short time Publicity Commissioner of the Jefferson High...

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

Example of another March written by Mrs. Rasche [Source:   Library of Congress ] I put to you, dear Reader, a St. Vincent MYSTERY...

Dan Ohmann made these to hand out as thank-yous at this summer's town reunion, using the town's actually official seal stamp/press...

There had never been a race like this before. At the time it was run, it was the longest dog sled race in history.  There was media cov...

This poster from 2010 represents what you can typically see at the festival! [Click to enlarge...] I had the opportunity to share one o...

For latest information and details, visit the St. Vincent Town Reunion Facebook page... Saturday, July 28 1pm to 5pm - St Vincent Ceme...

Lyle Dexter, Michael Rustad, Jane Dexter, & Carolyn Wiese (in back) watch videos in church during 2007 town centennial / school reuni...

I don't know details on how farmers around my hometown area (Kittson County and Pembina County) contributed to the efforts described as...

My father, Gordon Short, was a member of the CCC ’s, working in various locations in Minnesota . It wasn’t that many years later that he the...

Our explorations of American versions of the rebellion begins with reports from the New York Times. On November 11, in a short story drawn f...

Musher Odin Jorgenson of Grand Marais, Minn., arrives on schedule with his team at Frog Point near Buxton, N.D., Saturday during the Red Riv...

I'm excited about the upcoming Red River Sled Dog Derby, having written about it a few weeks back, because of its strong connection to ...

For the beleaguered Red River colonists , who were having trouble becoming self-sufficient in a landscape harsh and alien to them, the summe...

I went to see My Winnipeg recently. I was very excited, because it's about 'my city', the city that I always considered ...

The article below is from the newly opened Sports Illustrated archives . Now I'm not a sports fan per se, but I do appreciate certain sp...

History will repeat itself this weekend. People will gather at Old Crossing and Treaty Park near Huot as they did 145 years ago, but the fat...

When I was younger, I mistakenly thought Minnesota was either too young or too far away from the center of action to have been involved in t...

Pembina County Fair - Hamilton, ND Photo by:  Bruce Wendt When I was growing up in St. Vincent , we attended the Kittson County Fair...