St. Vincent Memories

Location of Fort Pembina:   All of section 16, 17 and 18. Township one hundred and sixty three (63), North Range Number 51, West of the 5th ...

One of the architects of settlement for our area - along with others like Lord Selkirk - James J. Hill was instrumental in how towns rose ...

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

THE PRIDE OF OLD PEMBINA.   The Most Elegant Hostelry in Dakota, North of the Columbia at Fargo. Special to the Globe.  PEMBINA, N....

L ena Cameron Mortimer was born into a farming family in St. Vincent, Minnesota.  She became a Socialist Party activist and married t...

This excerpt is from a long article about the early years of TV along the border in our area.  There was a race who got their transmit...

Boston Daily Globe, May 27 1881, Page 1 Boston Daily Globe, May 27 1881, Page 1 I recently wrote about a Kittson County native, Ep...

H ey, Kittson County homies! Take a look at a new song all about our hood, written by hometown girl, Nancy Haubrich. Every purchase of t...

T onight, Christian Cassidy of the West End Dumplings - The Radio Edition , will be interviewing me about the St. Vincent Memories hist...

O n September 19th of this year, Kim McAllister Anderson and I took a trip up north, into Manitoba, Canada. Emerson , to be exact. To...

W onderful news arrived in today's mail.  The work here on this blog has been recognized and awarded the Excellence in Local History aw...

This video says it so well. It's how I feel about history period, whether it is my own, my family's, or my town's. I urge you ...

I plan on researching a lot of the images in the above set, and telling expanded stories about them, but that takes times - a LOT of time...

R ecently, I was interviewed by Curt Brown of the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper.  Curt writes a column for the paper called Minnesot...

'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...

To find out more about the book, referencing Pembina & St. Vincent The two rooms would be filled with fiddle music, he said, and sit...

"Music bubbles out of me..." [Poster created by Nancy Ansari ] C leo Bee [Wang] Jones is a St. Vincent native.  Cleo's ...

Despite the seeming title discrepancy,  this is  the same, correct gazetteer... ST. VINCENT [From Minnesota, North and South Dakota a...

St. Vincent School and grounds [August 2013] " A visitor on our Facebook page has kept after us to visit St. Vincent... " ...