Articles

Lind: Man honors mother-in-law on Mother’s Day

Today we all honor our mothers, as well we should. But here’s a story about a man who one Mother’s Day honored another important woman in his life: his mother-in-law.

• Philip McCoy and his mother-in-law, Martha Johnson
• Philip and Norma McCoy

Lind: North Dakota boys raised pet crow that did tricks, chased dog

Here’s a story to crow about. Dean Sorum, of Moorhead, writes that his wife, the former Carol Orser, used to live in Colgate, N.D., as did her cousins Jim and Charles Wright.

• Bob Lind

Neighbors: Berger boys sure made their mark

Lorraine Berger has every reason to be proud of her father. He was a man who, with his family, moved around a lot because he was continually offered better positions in the field of education.

• Bob Lind

Neighbors: Berger boys sure made their mark

Lorraine Berger has every reason to be proud of her father. He was a man who, with his family, moved around a lot because he was continually offered better positions in the field of education.

Lind: Kissing couple went on to have ‘great life together’

This picture of a girl dropping a smooch on a boy ran here before, after it was sent in by a reader who found it somewhere and wondered who it was.

• Golden wedding celebration
• Lovebirds

Lind: Memories of quintuplets born 79 years ago

It’s been 79 years since the Dionne quintuplets were born in Canada. But people still remember them, and better yet, come up with mementoes of them.

• Bob Lind

Lind: Story of Perham family filled with joys, heartaches

It’s the story of Herman and Louise Nieman, of Perham, Minn., and of their children. All 13 of them.

• Ellie Radtke

Lind: Wife gets sympathy letter for husband who wasn’t dead

One day in 1983, Pearl Nissen received a sympathy letter because of the death of her husband, Ira.

• Bob Lind

Lind: Ladies of Lunch going strong after nearly 50 years

It was a Wednesday when the four women first got together for lunch. That was 49 years ago. And those women, plus several others, all from the same Fargo neighborhood, have been having lunch together virtually every Wednesday since then.

• Ladies of Lunch

Lind: Hum of plant’s generators audible in summer

Today, Neighbors’ mailbag contains messages about a mix of items: jazz, a power plant and old railroad days.

• NSP power plant

Columns

Lind: Dakota Business College taught many ND bankers

Stories about the old Dakota Business College in Fargo led Justin Swank, Fargo, to write about his father, James Swank.

Lind: ND farmer saved man pinned under machine

This story could be in Nicole Phillips’ Forum column, which focuses on kind things people do for one another.

• Bob Lind

Fargo man searches for poem

Don K. Johnson, of Fargo, seeks your help in tracking down a poem. “I have searched far and wide for a poem I misplaced many years ago,” Don writes.

Lind: Readers inquire about city names

Bowman and Havana are North Dakota towns on opposite corners of the state. But Neighbors has received inquiries about how both of them got their names.

• Bob Lind

Lind: Reader recalls infamous March 1966 blizzard

Sure, it’s May, but Neighbors is still catching up with mail concerning past winter storms, although the way the winter has dragged on, maybe it’s not so inappropriate today to recall the infamous March 1966 blizzard and how it affected local rail lines.

• Bob Lind

Lind: Yet another way to enjoy lefse

You can add this to the list of ways to eat lefse.

• Lefse toppings

Lind: Postcard with no message a mystery to woman’s granddaughter

Here’s a postcard from the past, and a request for information about it. It comes from Katherine Cannon, of Clifton, Texas, a woman who can claim a relative who was a big political name in Minnesota, and who lives near a town much in the news recently.

• Postcard from Minnesota
• Bob Lind

Steam Threshers use hand-operated train turntable

Neighbors carried a piece some time ago about someone taking the old Galloping Goose branch line train to the Canadian border, where it was turned around on a hand-operated turntable.

• Turntable

Lind: Poem stirs many memories for readers

“A Letter Home,” a poem written years ago by North Dakota’s late poet laureate James W. Foley, still rings a bell for many people.

• Bob Lind

Lind: Photo shows harsh ND winter in early 1900s

The picture above gives an idea of what the Plains of North Dakota looked like during the winter in the early 1900s. But it probably was taken before April, as it might have been this year.

• Thorbjorn Riseth
• Bob Lind