St. Vincent Memories

Abraham Lincoln as the Puppetmaster of Death (of starvation, war, and executions) Ledger Art  by Travis Blackbird by Prairie Rose ...

by Curt Brown [Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 8, 2015 ] Shakopee, left, and Medicine Bottle were hanged three years after the U.S.-...

I present to you, one of St. Vincent's early pioneers - John A. Vanstrum. A veteran of the Civil War, he became very civic-minded, serv...

Percy's grave is in the St. Vincent Cemetery Sgt Major Percy John Edkins U.S. Marine Corps O n May 18, 1917, the Selective Serv...

W e are in the midst of the Centennial years of WWI . Many men from Kittson County fought in the "Great War", or the "War to ...

Before there could be Ferry Command , the groundwork had to be laid...

Father Goiffon I n 1861, Joseph Goiffon , a missionary at Pembina , wrote that a Dakota runner passed through the area on his way to th...

T he letter below was received by Alfred "Rusty" Rustad while he was in the service during WWII. It was written by a local repr...

Old City Hall in Pembina (1934) - Does anyone  know when it was built? [Source: SHSND 's Digital Horizons ] Until recently when a ...

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

'Casualty' does not always mean 'Killed in Action' It can also mean 'Wounded' - I knew at least one of  the men ...

T own sirens were part of everyday life when I was growing up. We didn't question why a siren would go off at noon, 6pm, and 10pm. ...

St. Nicholas Ukrainian Church (Caribou, Kittson County, Minnesota) Let me introduce you to someone from my hometown area - eastern Kitt...

I don't know details on how farmers around my hometown area (Kittson County and Pembina County) contributed to the efforts described as...

A film was made about the Ferry Command operations... I have written about Ferry Command several other times here on this blog. There ...

An article about a Kittson County resident who was a veteran of the American Civil War was recently published in the Kittson County Enterpr...

I was contacted again by Ted Beaudoin about his latest book, EARTH ANGELS RISING , which will be the second book in his aviation trilogy, Wa...

A few years ago, my then-boyfriend and I did a short holiday to Winnipeg, staying at the Hotel Fort Garry , and visiting some of the sites I...

Making Camp in the Philipines-Gordon Short from St. Vincent on far right... Kittson County: So many crosses, but once-fading veterans' s...

O n 15 January, 1940 just west of Emerson , the silence of the early morning was broken by the sound of aircraft. A truck, loaded with 45-...