Prairie Lives
We’ve been learning about MaryAnn (Kack) Blanchette’s life growing up on the family farm near Lake Marshall during the 1930s and 1940s.
Anyone who lives on our Minnesota prairie long enough experiences major winter storms. MaryAnn vividly recalled the Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940.
“I remember it was a nice day and then it started snowing and kept getting worse and worse. We had sheep out in the pasture half mile east of us. So, we went out there in the storm and tried to bring them up closer. They wouldn’t go against the wind and that’s the way we wanted them to go. So, we lost quite a few. They were all laying along the fence line. It seemed like it was at least several days before we could get out.”