St. Vincent Memories

One of the reasons I began writing this blog was because I saw my village, even as I was growing up within it, declining before my eyes.  ...

While nothing was really mentioned of the history of the depot , it was difficult, yet good to read this article about Noyes today.  A very ...

A recent newspaper article reminded me of how quickly we can be forgotten. I have often imagined the St. Vincent of the future as bei...

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

Controlled Burn:  Older section of school T here were no girls in the senior class of 1987, forcing Humboldt-St. Vincent to do without a...

St. Vincent 1900 Census - William Ash , Enumerator [Click to enlarge] Census Population Counts: 1880 - 489 1890 - 507 1900 - 2...

Population 6...plus two big dogs [Photo: Ghosts of Minnesota ] T here are towns even smaller than St. Vincent , but not many. One of ...

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...

Grape Vine Ivy on Chicken Coop - my family home  in St. Vincent, MN (Kittson County, July 2010) T his week, an online writer dubbing him...

Iconic sign still on depot roof... Photo by Bill Reynolds While up home for the Gamble Reunion , I stopped at Dad's old place of w...

Amen to the message of this video. This is what has been happening to my hometown and all such hometowns for many years now. As the video s...

This last June and July(2008), there was an opportunity to return to America for a conference and a family holiday. During that time, we tr...

We all have seen the decline and depopulation of our hometowns in rural areas, but then you see an inspirational story like this and are re...

Michael Rustad is a native of Humboldt. Like many before and since, he left home and went out to a wider world. He shared the seeds of what...

Early on - and according to my grandmother and mother, well into the last century - there was strong competition between the new towns in o...

The video above is a followup to the main story we shared earlier. I was especially moved - to tears - to see Noyes so desolate. How lon...

KARE-11 News contacted me a couple of weeks ago when doing research on a story for their Four Corners of Minnesota series. They had found...

Things keep changing up home. Populations shrink, those that stay are farther apart geographically, but the ties that bind are as close ...