St. Vincent Memories

Recently I wrote about area vaudeville and the silo circuit . Since then, I came across the image above showing a travelling, itinerant perf...

St Vincent May 21, 1886 Dear William I write these fue lines to let you and Maggy know that Mary Ann was confined on the 12 of this month th...

I just learned that the Noyes Port-of-Entry will be closing on July 10th of this year. For me personally, it will be an end of an era. ...

Recently I posted about the maternity home my grandmother ran in St. Vincent from the early 1940's to the end of the 1950's, fillin...

On April 14, 1886 (4PM) the deadliest tornado in Minnesota history razed parts of St.Cloud and Sauk Rapids, leaving 72 dead and 213 injured....

St Vincent February 25, 1886 My dear aunt we got your letter and was very glad to hear that you are all well we are all well at presant i wo...

My grandmother Elizabeth Fitzpatrick ran a maternity home in St. Vincent from 1943 into the late 1950's. I don't know if any unwed ...

It's now the end of 1883, and the Gambles have come a long way since they arrived in the area in 1878. They've worked long and hard ...

June 6th has been declared "Small Town Day" in Minnesota. June 6th & 7th are also the dates for an important conference on sm...

Although my parents were Americans, and lived in St. Vincent, Minnesota, I was born in Emerson, Manitoba. It was 1959, and at that time, Em...