St. Vincent Memories

This video says it so well. It's how I feel about history period, whether it is my own, my family's, or my town's. I urge you ...

I t all started with a trade:  One hat, for one bottle of whiskey... If there's one thing I've learned writing this blog, it...

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...

Metis Rider; note the beaded saddle blanket... ...The following month, the annual horse race known as the Dufferin races, was held in E...

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

S ome of the graves that were originally in the Fort Pembina Cemetery. In anticipation of Fort Pembina (1870-1895) closing, the graves we...

One of the reasons I began writing this blog was because I saw my village, even as I was growing up within it, declining before my eyes.  ...

Pembina Pioneer Express masthead [Courtesy:  Pembina County Historical Society] J im Benjaminson recently shared some excerpts from old...

Circa the late 1940s/early 1950s @ the Short's Cafe... 'The food is not Stranger and we are never Short on customers' ...