Who Would Have Thought?
It was June of 1976, and my telephone rang…no cell phones back then, the phone was hanging on the wall in the apartment we were renting in Grand Forks, North Dakota. A local broadcasting organization was looking for help staffing remote broadcast trucks on the 4th of July. “You will be part of a broadcast […]
Grilling School
A few weeks ago in Medora, I managed to burn almost an entire batch of campfire ham and cheese sliders.I prepped the sandwiches at home. Grilling them outdoors would be easy—after all, they just needed to get warm and gooey in their foil pouches. Easy, right? Turns out, it wasn’t so easy for me. Apparently, […]
The prairie spirit still lives
A 125-year-old vacant country school that hasn’t been used for education since 1959, is coming back to life on the windswept prairie in Emmons County. Often times called the Gimbel School, Gayton School No. 4 near Hazelton was the scene June 12-19 of what could only described as the same as a pioneer barn raising. […]