St. Vincent Memories

From Lori Kohut Bianco, Gamble descendant : Alexander Gamble Jr & William Neill Gamble. My guess is this was one of the photos mentioned...

Until we get the scans courtesy of Cindy Adams, director of the Kittson County Museum, these photos taken with a cell phone are a nice previ...

Oh my word, faithful readers! Has it ever been an exciting past few days! Alice - one of the descendents of the Gamble family whose precious...

Another ' Gamble Letter ' has been found! Lori Bianco, Great Granddaughter of the writer, recently found it among her familiy's ...

Maggie Neill wrote letters to the Gamble family all her life. The Gambles left Ontario in the late 1870's when Maggie was just a young ...

Long-time readers of this blog will well remember the letters of the Gamble Family . Letters are powerful demonstrations of history. Letter...

Long time readers of this blog will know the Gamble family well. Have you wondered what they looked like? Well, wonder no longer. NOTE: A...

The Gamble family will forever fascinate me. They are second only to my own families - the Clow, the Fitzpatrick, the Fitzgerald, and the Sh...

What a wonderful surprise... I got another missive from a reader, and this reader is from the Gamble family ... Please, how do I get in touc...

Descendents of the original Gambles that settled St. Vincent have been in touch, and shared this with me about the "story after the sto...

We now come to end of the Gamble Letters. Below are the final three letters in the collection. No doubt there were more, but they are lost t...

The winter of 1896/1897 ...it was a portentious winter, with heavy snowfall. It would lead to one of the worst floods on record. Read about...

In this letter, we read the normal sharing of the 'news', but we read more than that - Alice lets down her guard for a moment and ad...

St. Vincent, Minn. August 24, 1896 Dear Maggie, I suppose you think I have forgotten you altogether. It is such a long time since you wrote....

We're getting towards the end of the letters , only a few left. For whatever reason, a few of the last letters that were transcribed (...

In this edition of the Gamble Letters, Alice is writing to Maggie about how it is to spend a long winter in Minnesota near the turn of the ...

Sad news comes in this letter. The patriarch of the Gamble clan has died... St. Vincent, Minn. August 31, 1895 Dear Maggie: We received your...

In this edition of the Gamble Letters, you'll read about how Alice is feeling a bit overwhelmed by the sheer volume of work just to keep...

grippe also grip (grĭp)[ French , from Old French, claw, quarrel, from gripper, to seize, grasp, from Frankish *grīpan .] An acute febrile ...

The Gamble family has prospered much since they came to St. Vincent 25 years before. Children have grown up, and now they are having childre...