St. Vincent Memories

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

"The term was finished in two and a half days, and the balance of last day, awaiting the arrival of the train south, was spent fishing...

Electus Backus Litchield "Flagrantly & monumentally impudent" H ow did the St. Vincent Extension (which was the rail line...

[Courtesy:  Kittson County History Center & Museum] At the Zenith of its production years, the early elevated view seen above of the man...

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 've been reading this book about Enos Stutsman titled Attorney for the Frontier . Ever since I came across "Stuts", as hi...

From 1920 "Farm Boys & Girls Leader". Organized in 1919, it was the start of what would be known as the  the 4-H club of th...

Once found in Minnesota, but now is evidently extinct here... I n 1823, Mr. Keating noticed the Salt springs in Minnesota State and Dac...

St. Nicholas Ukrainian Church (Caribou, Kittson County, Minnesota) Let me introduce you to someone from my hometown area - eastern Kitt...

Ode to a town that exists now only in memory... Mattson. Caribou. Sultan. Pelan. What do all of these towns have in common? They are to...

T his past week end, my partner Bill and I went on a Minnesota safari of sorts. We packed up a lunch, put the hiking boots on, and hit the r...

According to my statistics service, this website had the following stats over the last 30 days: I hadn't checked my stats in months, ...

I submitted a local baseball story to PBS's THE TENTH INNING website (about Ken Burns ' upcoming baseball documentary) yesterday. ...

Ironically, as I have been trying in my own humble way , to show the more accurate history (not easy to do when you are depending on second-...

R ecently, actor/educator and historian (Minnesota Historical Society) Dwight Scott visited Hallock and presented a performance as Casey Jo...

Originally uploaded by afiler I came across this photo of a sign in my hometown county, Kittson County, that I wasn't aware of before....

I started this post to be about Major E. A. C. Hatch 1 (sometimes referred to as Edward Hatch, or Edwin Hatch...) But a much more interes...