Annette Kisser, Circle Pines, Minn., north of St. Paul.
“I grew up on a small farm in southeastern North Dakota. We did not have indoor plumbing until we left there,” she writes, then gives some of her family history.
“We went to church in Rutland, N.D., seven miles away, and school in Havana, N.D., five miles away,” she writes.
“We left the area in 1961 after my father passed away. This left my mother with a 10-year-old car, a 10-year-old combine, $200 in the bank and five children, four under 18.
“She used the car and combine as collateral to borrow money from the bank. She borrowed a similar amount from my uncle.
According to city documents, surprises are expected once the digging starts.
Nearly every excavation for The Railyard’s utility piping ran into old foundations, either stone, masonry or concrete.
Bad soils were found where old foundations were improperly backfilled.
At one excavation for the addition of a private residence, there was a 20-foot square by 6-feet-deep excavation backfilled with layers of plate glass covered by soil, all of which had to be removed.
A former railroad roundhouse was located in the area, and it’s believed that old foundations will be found. Soil borings have found construction rubble in three spots.
Fargo Central High School alumni reminisce about the fire that destroyed their school 55 years ago today
In the mid-1960 s, a fire in Fargo upended the lives of hundreds of Fargo High School students. Central High burned on April 19, 1966, leaving seniors with an interrupted final year and requiring Central students to share space with students at the newly built North High School. Several alums share their memories of those wild days. 8:32 am, Apr. 19, 2021 ×
Fargo Central High School caught fire around lunchtime on April 19, 1966. The fire was thought to be caused by a malfunction in a heating plant within the school. All eight units of the city s fire fighting equipment were on hand, along with 76 firemen, including off-duty firefighters. The snowstorm complicated firefighting as 30 mile per hour winds fanned the flames. It took four hours to put it out.Photo courtesy: NDSU Archives
A family connection meant Fargo learned of Ernest Hemingway s death before the world
Two men share their recollections of how a former Fargo Forum editor got the scoop on the 1961 death of enigmatic author Ernest Hemingway. Written By: Robin Huebner | ×
Ernest Hemingway writing at his campsite in Kenya, Africa, 1953-1954. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
FARGO When the world learned of the death of famed American novelist Ernest Hemingway 60 years ago, it’s likely that information came by way of Fargo.
A coincidental connection between a newspaper editor’s family and Hemingway allowed the shocking and tragic news to filter through North Dakota, even before it reached other news outlets across the globe.
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On July 2, 1961, Hemingway took his own life at his home near Sun Valley ski resort in Ketchum, Idaho. He was 61 years old.
John D. Paulson was the editor of what was known as The Fargo Forum at the time.
His sister Helen was married to Dr. Fred Kolouch, and the couple had a cabin just down the hill from Hemingway’s home in Ketchum.
As soon as Kolouch learned that Hemingway had shot himself with a shotgun, he immediately called Paulson, his brother-in-law and journalist, in Fargo.