St. Vincent Memories

Originally issued in 1888, this is an 1891 copy of a Declaration of Intention   [Courtesy:   Jim Benjaminson ] T his Declaration of In...

The Manitoulin - steamer ship featured in Chuck Walker's BORDER TOWNS The photograph above, recently located on this website , is on...

I dare you, dear readers, to read just the first paragraph below, and not tell me that Chuck Walker is a master storyteller. He knows his ...

The ship to the left - named the "Metropolis" - was a passenger ship out of Duluth at the time of this story...The ship that our c...

As a grandchild and great grand child of men and women who settled my hometown, I always wondered what it was like for them and their famili...

The Norwegian journalist Paul Hjelm-Hansen was appointed by the governor of Minnesota as a special agent of the newly established Board of I...