Friday, February 1, 2013

Something Incredibly Rare in Local History

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The Thortvedts.   This family was full of talent and industry; they utilized both to the fullest! The father, Levi, was an inventor...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

Fargo, ND/Moorhead, Minnesota Historical Museum

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Also in the Hjemkomst Center are several collections of personal memorabilia from a couple of prominent 1800's residents of Clay County....
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Hopperstad Stave Church

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Also at the Hjemkomst Center, just outside the back door, we discover our second bonus of the day. How absolutely gorgeous!  I'd tr...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Norwegian Trolls

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These are the greeters for the Hjemkomst Center.  They are life-size wood carvings by Steinar Karlsen.  They were carved before a live au...
Monday, January 28, 2013

A Viking Ship In North Dakota!

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Golly gee!  What will we find NEXT?  This is so-o-o-o cool! Isn't this amazing?  Especially to find it in Fargo, North Dakota!  It ...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Weather Forecast - or Pastcast

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Wow!  What a weekend!  We had lows of 20-25 degrees below zero, and wind chill factors of 50 below.  There were blizzard conditions and wh...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Day's End

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Well, thank you, Lord, for a long and wonderful day.  And thank you, Granpa, for being a sweetheart and letting us make it to the headwat...
Monday, January 21, 2013

The First Colony of the United States

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No, not the first colony IN the United States, the first colony OF the United States:  The Old Northwest Territory.  I never thought abou...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Who Else Has Been Visiting the Headwaters?

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This ridge between the two waters is THE beginning of the river flowing out of Lake Itasca that becomes the mighty Misssissippi: Standi...
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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Headwaters of the Mississippi River

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As we leave the restaurant in Bemidji, I begin looking at tourist information we had picked up and am pickled tink to find that we are just ...
Friday, January 18, 2013

Minnesota's Lower Red Lake and Bemidji

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On our trip up from Texas we were excited to see ice forming around the edges of puddles in marsh land.  By the time we got up to Grand Fork...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Kitty Wethmann

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I checked this out on Snopes.com - it's still under research. I googled Kitty Wethmann and came up with a plethora of sites.  One ...

Agassiz - A Creationist!

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I'm naturally thinking that this name, Agassiz, is Native American in origin.  Think again, my little chickadee!  Turns out that it is S...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Neighboring Minnesota's Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge

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Today we're headed across the Red River of the North into Minnesota.  Folks at the hospital told Granpa that if you get far enough into ...