St. Vincent Memories

There had never been a race like this before. At the time it was run, it was the longest dog sled race in history.  There was media cov...

Catherine Harris (wife), Gladys Harris (daughter), &  Dr. Charles B. Harris, posing in Fern Valley, circa 1898... [Source:  Walker Fa...

Lake Stella as sunset approaches [Courtesy:  Jamie Rustad Meagher] Sunset on Lake Stella [Courtesy:  Jamie Rustad Meagher] D...

Found via Google Books, aka "the researcher's friend" The following excerpt highlights a pharmacological discovery by uni...

From: Democracy in America By Alexis de Tocqueville The concept of the Great American Desert had long been familiar to Americans and indee...

The flood legacy of the Red River of the North ... FROM its humble origins as the small Bois de Sioux River along the South Dakota-Minnesota...

Six months ago I posted a photograph of of a man whose identity I didn't know, asking readers to comment if they thought they knew wh...

This is my Grandpa (on left, foreground). His name was Sheldon Albert Fitzpatrick, but popularly known to one and all as Al. With him (on ri...

Because it is flat and treeless, the Valley frequently gives the impression of a monotonous landscape, but to many it provides a view that c...

Right outside of the home I grew up in, visible through the west-facing kitchen windows, was a stand of chokecherry trees. They bordered our...

Magnificent Magic Minnesota Mushroom February 22, 2006 By Ken Korczak Note : The following events, which happened in Caribou Township in nor...

I don’t know what it is, but I really like the northwestern corner of Minnesota. It’s a unique part of the state due to its connectedness wi...

"I could see for miles and miles, and the prairie was black with them, and only here and there I could see spots of snow...there were s...

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...

Dear Readers , some of you may wonder, where in the world does this woman find this stuff ? Well, let me tell you, I find this stuff in the ...

In a recent article , a heretofore unknown project was featured. It is the passion and some would say, life's work , of a Kittson County...