St. Vincent Memories

" I remember the bear quite well - it was the talk of the town [Humboldt], it used to ride in the car with them. My dad told me of one...

I 'm pretty sure you can trace the historic failings of the University of Minnesota sports teams to their choice of name:  Gophers.  In...

These two photos were taken in the same general area of St. Vincent , around the same general time period (early 1900s). There appears to ...

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

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

T he story featured in the article at left, found in a newspaper archive from the early 20th century, sounds like a tall tale if I ever hea...

Competition for political and economic power between the emerging territorial cities was common in the early days, even between Pembina and...

From   W.P. Davies Newspaper Columns ,   Chester Fritz Library Digital Collections . I don't know if the story above is talking abou...

There are many humorous stories circulating online, but only a few that I find truly amusing. I received such a one this morning from my fri...

The video above was brought to my attention by Bill Ash the other day. In the interim, Bill found out from Clarence Bingham the scoop on ...

July 4, 1890 Parade down main street in Pembina, ND (courtesy of State Archives of North Dakota collection) I have written about the ...

A pretty amusing and sometimes outright laugh-out-loud account of the 'thrilling' journey by steamboat from St. Vincent to Winnipeg...

OK, so I'm slow to the party. I only now discovered a Canadian sitcom called Corner Gas (and ironically the show's series finale wa...

Mark Twain, due to financial problems, undertook a world tour in 1895. The tour began in America, and after an initial stop in Cleveland, pr...

From Willie Block’s “25 Things I Hate About the Red River” 1. It floods. 2. It does not obey the 100-year flood rule. Like at all. 3. It’s ...

From the May 23, 1890 issue of the St. Vincent New Era : Dr. Campbell has a heavy acount to answer for, and the husbands in St. Vincent has ...