St. Vincent Memories

Jim Benjaminson shared today:   Well, its getting closer to reality - "Sagas of Pembina County, 1867-2017" is at the printer...

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

A historic postcard touts Pembina's attractions.  [Photo Credit: State Historical Society of North Dakota/Digital Horizons] Pembina, N....

"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...

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

Jim Benjaminson is a local historian from Pembina County, North Dakota.  This year is the sesquicentennial of Pembina County, and in cel...

"An annual award,  History Educator Hall of Fam e is presented to the teachers, one in each county, who are the most effective in teach...

W onderful news arrived in today's mail.  The work here on this blog has been recognized and awarded the Excellence in Local History aw...

Dr. Campbell was a versatile man, with credentials as a Dentist as  well as a Physician, from the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnat...

I plan on researching a lot of the images in the above set, and telling expanded stories about them, but that takes times - a LOT of time...

R ecently, I was interviewed by Curt Brown of the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper.  Curt writes a column for the paper called Minnesot...

B ack in the day, just as now, lawmen worked together between Canada and America.  There was less red tape then, although that was there,...

Co-Workers of my Grandpa Fitzpatrick at Humboldt Hill Farm:  'Illegal' Canadians? W e often hear about illegal aliens working ...

After the First World War, Manitoba became a preferred destination for barnstorming  ball teams from the United States. All professionals, t...

Downtown Humboldt around the time the poem was written... Ode to the North [With apologies to Longfellow, and acknowledgement to the F...

R eaders of this blog may have noticed several sections on the right-hand sidebar.  One of those sections contains links to various local ...

Masthead -  The paper  was started by Horace Greeley T he article below - part of a series on new states in the Union - was written b...

Hand-written recipe by Elizabeth Jane (Fitzgerald) Fitzpatrick, my grandmother - used in the "Economy Cookbook" of 1917, put o...

Joseph O. Lemay [Photo courtesy: Manitoba Historical Society] Joseph Lemay , Esq. - Judge, postmaster and collector of United States cu...

Source:  State Historical Society of North Dakota [Click to enlarge...] THE OLD-TIME POST OFFICE AT PEMBINA By Charles Cavileer Cav...