Back Then with Tracy Briggs
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Midwest memories of the good old days and a few cool people we’ve met along the way.
Find more stories by Tracy Briggs here: https://www.inforum.com/tracy-briggs
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Pass the superhero cape, I want to be an archivist
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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This Valentine's Day, local couples prove that love can be found in the quirkiest ways
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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How Muhammad Ali once knocked out by a North Dakota blizzard
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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'With age comes wisdom.' An embarrassingly easy dish for potlucks
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Golf outing in Bismarck launched Minnesota singer to fame in 'Lawrence Welk Show'
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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A second serving of King Leo's 🍔
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Long live King Leo's!
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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During a month of tragic headlines, Fargo's skating nuns put a smile on everyone's faces
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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A life at Le Mans that started on the prairies of North Dakota
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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My dad played Santa. My kids were his toughest audience
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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The day Fargo’s grandest hotel became a deadly ice palace
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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One of America's most popular cakes was made possible by a Minnesota man and a Jewish women's club
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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These twins helped make history in Valley City then went on to lead parallel yet unique lives
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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'Leave it to Beaver' star Hugh Beaumont once owned a Christmas tree farm in Minnesota
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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What covering Kennedy's assassination was like for Forum journalists in 1963
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Sure, bison roamed the plains here, but what about the school bus-sized sea lizards with angry eyebrows?
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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His parents mailed him to Valley City, then he met the Pope
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Do you know these people at a 1957 party on the prairie?
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Fifty years before a UFO flew over a Bison football game, Barnesville had its own run-in. Or did they?
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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People used to send their kids through the mail. No, really.
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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The story of a North Dakota man who survived one of WWII's darkest days and months in a POW camp
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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This North Dakota duck hunting doc made housecalls and did your farm chores
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Why I told my excuses to 'sit down and shut up'
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Did you hear about the time the Moorhead Spuds were charged with picking spuds?
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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80 years ago thousands flocked to downtown Fargo to see a captured Japanese submarine
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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A movie 'star' once came to Fargo to live in the famous Herbst Department Store window
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Local couple embodies the mid-century past with historic home on south Fargo's Ninth Street
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Meet the man who delivered 15,000 babies in Fargo
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Why WDAY and KVLY swapped networks 40 years ago
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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After 96 years, a North Dakota man still holds record for longest beard
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Why is a former Moorhead High basketball player featured in the movie 'Oppenheimer?'
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Not only did WWII veterans defeat Hitler, they gave us access to the chocolate chip cookie
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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At 100, Gate City Bank seeks to 'live the dream' with a cookie on top
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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'Come on Barbie, let's go party' in my Barbie-themed guest room
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Do you put ketchup on your hot dog? One sausage expert says 'stop it!'
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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How a boxing match between champ Jack Dempsey and a popular Minnesotan nearly destroyed a tiny Montana town
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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The mysteries surrounding the Batmobile’s visit to Fargo have been solved (mostly)
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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NDSU hangout was little talked about victim of infamous Fargo tornado
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Thanks for being our pal, Penny!
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Fargo fans circling the bases to get the superstar candy bar that 'tastes like childhood'
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Do you have memories of riding a rural school bus? I'm a little jealous.
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May 31, 2023 |
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Holy windshield wipers! Did Fargo Police really once impound Hollywood’s Batmobile?
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May 24, 2023 |
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Why did 'The Music Man' blame a North Dakotan for corrupting River City youth?
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May 17, 2023 |
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I hate math. So why was this math teacher one of my very favorites?
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May 10, 2023 |
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A Moorhead homeowner asks 'who are these people that fell from my bedroom closet?'
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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5 things that might surprise you about the local YWCA’s Women of the Year
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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I can't keep saying 'goodbye' to Taco John's
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Do you know any of the famous Valley City twins of ‘35?
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Do you think their hair is too long? Adults in '66 said 'yes' and kicked the 'hippies' out of school
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Four reasons the Midwest is fascinated by gangsters
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Did this cabin on Little Bemidji Lake once belong to Al Capone?
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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A small-town waitress in North Dakota recalled the night she served steak to Al Capone
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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In the 1920s, a lawman in North Dakota had a dark secret - He was Al Capone’s brother
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Mourning the loss of our HASH jeans, leisure suits and other vintage favorites
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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This Clay County pioneer was a handsome, hard-working man with a prickly side
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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During WWII, North Dakota kids traded in their Valentines to help the war effort, while adults sent Camels
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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After battling the Great Chicago Fire this N.D. governor became a swashbuckling pirate
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Saying goodbye to 'one of the greatest women you’ll ever meet'
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Amelia Earhart ate dinner with a local family after being stranded at the Fargo airport
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Why suspected paranormal activity at a WWII-era North Dakota one-room school reached the FBI
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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How rescuing a drowning dog eventually lead this Minnesota actress to 'Happy Days' fame
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Check out the swanky New Years affair Fargoans attended in 1900
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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The best thing I ever did to simplify Christmas
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Moorhead church solves the mystery of an unusual box hidden in its walls
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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What are the oldest restaurants in the Fargo-Moorhead area that still exist today?
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Recent column stirs up childhood memory of hanging out backstage with John Denver
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Does Kerstin Kealy belong in the 1950s and how groovy is '70s-era Dana Mogck?
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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To heck with the Rocky Mountains, it was Minnesota that inspired John Denver's first No. 1 song
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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The first American killed in the Vietnam War was born in Minnesota and died watching a movie
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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She was one of North Dakota's greatest athletes, so why is she still such a mystery?
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Moorhead was once the site of Minnesota’s worst aviation disaster
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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Why did one Minnesota town move Halloween? And 5 other surprises from Halloweens past
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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North Dakota man was once tallest in the world
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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From satirical photos of Nazis to drugs and abortion, NDSU and Concordia student papers shook up campus
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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MSUM’s first student newspaper shut down for swearing and ‘mischief making’
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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College students in ND used to devour 'Garbage Plates,' and they loved every minute of it
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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What are the 3 greatest TV lineups of all time?
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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North Dakota's first Vietnam War fatality died helping others, and a national magazine took notice
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Did you know the 1st Minnesotan killed in the Vietnam War was from both Moorhead and Grand Forks?
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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For the first time, the majority of travelers on the next local Honor Flight will be Vietnam veterans
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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I'll never forget interviewing 'Little Elvis' 20 years ago. Now he's my co-worker
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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North Dakotans were along for the ride in 1947’s 'Summer of the Flying Saucer'
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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The surprising things I felt when I visited an ax murder house
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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These news stories had Forum readers 'glued to the TV set' as kids
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Dear West Acres, thanks for the memories
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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What is the first major news event you remember?
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Moorhead's most famous Viking ship could have been destined for failure, but instead it became an icon
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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The story of The Forum's 'girl reporter' who conquered Hollywood, but never forgot the folks at home
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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It's been closed for 11 years, but customers of a Dilworth restaurant can't stop talking about that food
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Wish you were here! Fargoans once sent postcards of Island Park to their friends
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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The Prospect House is a hidden history gem in Minnesota lakes country
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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An Army physician recalls his days as a young patient in Fargo's 'Pest House'
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Remembering the Schellhas boys and the Minnesota family's WWII sacrifice
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May 29, 2022 |
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Their school days were so different from ours, but COVID-era graduates have an important message for us
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May 25, 2022 |
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From 'Where's the beef? to 'Let's get Mikey,' what are your favorite old TV commercials?
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May 18, 2022 |
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Did these high school girls really earn letters for eating breakfast?
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May 11, 2022 |
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Do you know these men? Another European cemetery needs your help to find photos of fallen WWII soldiers
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May 04, 2022 |
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Grand Forks high schoolers attempted to set a teeter-totter world record in 1966
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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What Fonzie didn't tell you about life in the '50s
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Were these questionable retro candies part of your childhood?
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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1970s kids remember candy cigarettes and freedom at their little corner stores
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Remembering Fargo's Pavarotti of pork chops
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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You might have tried to bring an ancestor back to life, but now you can give them a voice
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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You think you're lucky? Meet a man who has legal proof on his driver's license
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Millennials and Gen Z might find love online, but Boomers and Gen X had Bud’s Roller Rink
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Fargo woman finds 100-year-old letter to her great-uncle from the King of England
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Peggy Lee called a North Dakota State University fraternity guy 'the first love of my life'
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Feb 28, 2022 |