Articles
Halgrimson: Fargo scrapped metal for the war effort, including cannon 
As I was looking through the online postcard collection at the Institute for Regional Studies, I came across a photo of a cannon in a small park on the east side of the Northern Pacific depot and the west side of Shotwell’s Floral.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Shoe shopping in downtown Fargo has changed through the years
In the winter I wear boots, in the summer, sandals. All of my footwear has low heels. I quit wearing high ones when I turned 50, which was a good number of years ago.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Osso buco well worth splurging
If you want to blow your grocery budget sky high, I’ve got just the thing for you. The dish is Osso Buco.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Old city directories fascinating looks into the past
The first Fargo City Directory was published in 1881 while North Dakota was still a territory.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Avalon building has musical history
The building at 613 1st Ave. N., Fargo, might house the Avalon Events Center, but it will always be the Daveau Music Co., to me.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Avalon building has musical history
The building at 613 1st Ave. N., Fargo, might house the Avalon Events Center, but it will always be the Daveau Music Co., to me.
RELATED CONTENTHunter Halgrimson: Cookbooks are better read than downloaded
The headline in a recent New York Times article said, “Are Cookbooks Obsolete?” It went on to talk about something called tablets and apps, whatever the heck they are. And I don’t want to know. One of those babies would be like a stranger in my kitchen.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Torta stuffed with flavor
Almost all foods Italian please me and beckon to my spirit. And although my mom was Norwegian and Swedish, she often cooked Italian dishes for our family.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Underwear shopping has changed
When I was growing up in Fargo, buying lingerie began when growths about the size of a gooseberry began to appear on my chest. Mom took me to a shop downtown where I was fitted for what was called a training bra.
RELATED CONTENTAs I Recall: Memories of Fargo’s Christmases past
When I think of downtown Fargo as it was during the holiday seasons of my youth, I remember the big tree at the foot of Broadway glowing with colored lights.
RELATED CONTENTColumns
Halgrimson: Sarma stirs fond memories
Not only do I have wonderful memories of the meals my mom and grandma cooked to cosset my spirit, but in the past I learned a lot about food from dishes prepared by family friends. One of those meals was the Sarma made by June Probstfield Dobervich.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Northport Shopping Center expanded over time
A 1976 story in The Forum noted that “Northport Shopping Center in Fargo will mark its 20th year of operation next week at a time in its history when sales are hitting new highs.”
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Cook stirs things up for chocolate cookies
It’s a mystery to me why I didn’t discover chocolate chocolate chip cookies long ago.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Tracing the footprint of Northport Shopping Center
The first announcement about plans for the construction in Fargo of the North Port Shopping Center (later changed to Northport) was made in 1954.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: The pickled flower caper
According to the dictionary, a caper can be a frolicsome adventure, a frisky leap or an illegal undertaking. A caper is also a flower bud from the caper bush, sun-dried and pickled in brine, and added to all manner of foods. The caper bushes are native to the Mediterranean and parts of Asia.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Following the foundation of the Fargo Foundry
Today it’s Mid America Steel Inc. But in the beginning, it was called the Fargo Foundry. Organized in 1905 at 92 NP Ave., it still occupies the same space that it started out in.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Catherine’s a downtown mainstay
Remembering the stores that were in downtown Fargo before the malls were built is not such an exercise in nostalgia now that the downtown area is revived and is full of small, locally owned shops – just as it used to be.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Don’t let the name fool you
According to Alan Davidson author of “The Oxford Companion to Food,” the earliest recipe for Welsh Rabbit appeared in 1725.
RELATED CONTENTAs I Recall: Moorhead borrows name from NP railroad director
William Garroway Moorhead, for whom the city of Moorhead is named, was born July 7, 1811, at Moorhead’s Ferry on the Susquehanna River, 22 miles north of Harrisburg, Pa. He was one of four sons and three daughters born to Irish immigrant parents who came to America in 1798.
RELATED CONTENTHalgrimson: Book explores food, lifestyle of migrants
In her book, “97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement,” author Jane Ziegelman tells the story of families in a single apartment building in New York between 1863 and 1935.
RELATED CONTENT
RSS Feeds