St. Vincent Memories

This week, it was announced that the Humboldt-St. Vincent Elevator Association was being dissolved and thus the closing of the elevator in...

I n this edition of the "Water Cooler":   A wonderful visit among old friends and neighbors brings up some interesting recollectio...

Norman Kittson , as painted by Kit Leffler ... The Artist Statement for the Double Back: Tracing Histories of the Red River Ox Cart Trail...

A ndy and Toots Ryan (Andrew and Margaret Ryan, to be exact) were brother and sister.  They lived together in a small, tidy house in the mid...

S heriff Charley Brown 's grave site is in the north section of the Pembina Cemetery;  his stone reads: Charles J. Brown Oct 4, 1...

Pembina Pioneer Express masthead [Courtesy:  Pembina County Historical Society] J im Benjaminson recently shared some excerpts from old...

Drawing submitted for Patent [Click to Enlarge] M y grandparents moved from the homestead to uptown mainstreet of the village, in the...

R ecently, on a social media site, a few individuals who grew up in or near Humboldt, MN were reminiscing... Deacon Jim Hunt One of m...

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

Although I have not obtained a photograph of the mysterious Mrs. Rasche yet, I did come across one of her children in a Maryland history...

John Stranger - Back row, middle A MEMOIR OF A LIFE,  FOR BETTER OR WORSE By John A. Stranger CHAPTER ONE Beginnings...

A s a youngster growing up in Pembina, I had a second town - St. Vincent . Wallace & Matilda Cameron's Home during 1950 flood [...

I was sad to hear recently that the last link to an old St. Vincent family had passed away.  I'm very thankful that I was able to ge...

T he last time we saw Daniel F. Brawley , he was conducting some rather underhanded business tactics against another resident named Na...

1906:  My Grandparents in front of their new home... T hese are my grandparents, Elizabeth and Albert Fitzpatrick, standing outside the...

R uth Younggren, a first grade teacher of poor children in Minnesota, yearly spent the first two weeks teaching the sounds of English and...

Rev. Kimberley's Grandson In my eternal quest for stories and history about my beloved hometown, I came across a former resident's...

I was recently contacted by reader Cleo Bee Jones, who shared that back in 1936, a piece about her uncles from St. Vincent was featured in...

St. Vincent EFC - formerly Valley Community Church, Green Store  (circa 1960s) A big part of growing up in my hometown area was your chu...

Click to Enlarge I came across these images on an eBay auction the other day, for an item of local ephemera.  I love the air of innocence...