Articles

Lind: North Dakota man’s military story extends through two wars

Theodore “Joe” Mertes, 89, was buried last July at Mantador, N.D., with full military honors, topped by a flyover by a P-51 Mustang fighter.

• Bob Lind

Neighbors: George Barta was a big part of Walsh County music scene

Neighbors recently carried a story about the George Barta band of Lankin, N.D.

• Bob Lind

Lind: Heart association official says North Dakota has ‘great system of stroke care’

Neighbors’ mailbag is overflowing. So let’s dig into it. June Herman, of Ypsilanti, N.D., regional vice president of advocacy for the American Heart Association, says she “loved reading the story on Marilynn Moe,” referring to a column about a woman who survived a stroke.

• Bob Lind

Lind: Bison rarely leave mind of former NDSU wrestler

You don’t want to wrestle with this guy, folks, especially if you aren’t a North Dakota State Bison fan. He’d probably whomp you.

• John Kucenic

Lind: ND man loved to cook ‘strange’ food

His name was Alphonsus Joseph Von Bank. But you didn’t want to call him Alphonse to his face; he hated it.

• Bob Lind

Lind: Dakota Roundup Band member also ‘wonderful man and dad’

The photo, at right, of Jimmy Wells’ Dakota Roundup Band, out of Aberdeen, S.D., which played in the Fargo-Moorhead area in the 1940s and 1950s, ran in Neighbors recently.

• Dakota Roundup Band

Lind: Woman who held Norwegian heritage dear leaves legacy for family, friends

May 17 was a big day every year for Sophie Horpedahl.

• Sophie Horpedahl

Lind: Woman recorded life on farm near Hillsboro, ND, in 1928-29

Sept. 10 – Today we had some trouble with our windmill that brings up the water for our cows and horses.

• Clara Aasen

Lind: Fargo-Moorhead native flies into storms to collect data

The recent Hurricane Isaac caused terrible damage. But for a Fargo-Moorhead native, being in the middle of it, by choice, was just another day at the office.

• Nicole Mitchell

Lind: Woman lives active, normal life after having stroke

Since her husband, Darrel, was gone for the evening and she was alone, Marilynn Moe figured it was a good time to send an email to her granddaughter in college.

• Darrel and Marilynn Moe

Columns

Lind: Swedish immigrant came to ND alone as a teen

Astrid Viman was 16 years old when her parents put her on a ship in Sweden to start a new life in the United States.

• Bob Lind

Lind: ND Air Force pilot almost attacked Cuba, walked Roger Maris

Three past columns that were unrelated at the time come together today. One concerned an Air Force pilot; another was about the Cuban missile crisis; and the third was about Fargo’s famed baseball player.

• Bob Lind

Lind: Radio man from Hawley was pioneer, prankster

According to what is printed on this picture, you might think there once were coffee plantations at Hawley, Minn., and Twin Valley, Minn. Well, not exactly.

• KVOX Radio
• Bob Lind

Neighbors: Poems, ‘Tales’ of long ago still harbor great meaning

Several people have written Neighbors about how poetry was emphasized in schools in the past.

• Bob Lind

Lind: Many people share memories of horse-drawn school buses

This picture of a horse-pulled school bus from years ago is one of many such pictures sent to Neighbors after it ran a note from a reader who wondered if anyone else remembered those vehicles known as “hacks.”

• Horse-drawn school bus
• Bob Lind

Lind: Readers, what do you know about the Fargo sites in these photos?

Here are some photos taken in Fargo between 1967 and 1969.

• House on 13th Avenue South
• NSP power plant
• House in Fargo, late 1960s
• Bob Lind

Neighbors: Oakes woman seeking buyer for quintuplets photo

The Dionne quintuplets were big news when they were born in 1934 because they were believed to be the first quints to survive infancy.

• Bob Lind
• Dionne quintuplets

Lind: Lovebirds in photo ID’d by Neighbors readers

Neighbors recently ran this photo sent in by Jeff Hewitt, Carrington, N.D., who found it somewhere and wondered who this North Dakota Agricultural College football player and the girl planting a good one on his cheek were.

• Bob Lind
• Lovebirds ID'd

Neighbors: Details of Bison football player, young woman’s kiss a mystery

One quick question for you today, neighbors: What are the names of this Bison football player and the girl making his day by giving him a kiss?

• Lovebirds ID'd

Lind: Descendant of French settlers takes pride in history

Claude Cossette is proud that French immigrants joined those from Scandinavia, Germany and other northern European countries in being among the first settlers in the Fargo-Moorhead region. He, after all, is a direct descendant of the first French settlers in the area.

• Claude Cossette
• Bob Lind