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    October 19, 2012
    Arland Fiske column: Gutzon Borglum – sculptor of presidents
    When the War Between the States was over, immigration to the New World began with gusto. Among those who came to America was the Borglum family from Denmark. James Borglum, a classics scholar and medical student, angry over the way his family’s estate was divided, took his young...
    ColumnsOctober 19, 2012 - 7:32pm
    October 12, 2012
    The Swedes of Jamestown, NY
    My friend Paul Settergren stopped by for a visit before he moved to Jamestown, N.Y. He brought a book for me to read titled “Saga from the Hills: A History of the Swedes of Jamestown.” Its 700 pages offers insight on all Swedes in America.
    News/localOctober 12, 2012 - 8:15pm
    Arland Fiske: The ‘Americanization’ of Norwegian immigrants, Part II
    The Scandinavian countries maintained official neutrality during World War I, though Sweden and Denmark favored the Germans and the Norwegians leaned towards the English cause. There were reasons for that. Norway’s Queen Maud was an English princess. The Queen of Sweden was from...
    News/localOctober 12, 2012 - 8:11pm
    So, you want to make a million dollars
    The ‘Americanization’ of Norwegian immigrants, Part II The Scandinavian countries maintained official neutrality during World War I, though Sweden and Denmark favored the Germans and the Norwegians leaned towards the English cause. There were reasons for that. Norway’s Queen...
    News/localOctober 12, 2012 - 8:05pm
    September 27, 2012
    Linda Lemmer sits among the blocks from the old Bemidji High School arched entrance. Starting Friday, volunteers with the Old Bemidji High School Remembered Committee to save the old entrance facade will reassemble it over the weekend for possible placement near the Nymore Beach area. Monte Draper | Bemidji Pioneer
    Preserving history: Work parties set for old Bemidji High School arch repairs
    BEMIDJI – Volunteers will gather this week to reconstruct the salvaged entry arch of the old Bemidji High School.
    News/localSeptember 27, 2012 - 12:36am
    January 24, 2010
    Mary Joy holds some of the pictures sent to the History Center by Gayle Ensign of Ely, NV, who found them in a old trailer abandoned in a storage lot. Pictures, most of them dating from the 1900 era, show early homes and other scenes of Blackduck as it then existed. One of the pictures she's holding shows a group of nine hunters and their bag of 14 deer.
    Blackduck: The way we were
    A Nevada woman with an interest in old camping trailers has provided the Blackduck Area History Center with a carton of rare photographs. Many...
    NewsJanuary 24, 2010 - 7:23am
    January 17, 2010
    Filming begins on railroad project
    Ashley Hull smiles after attaching a microphone to Al Gerner in preparation for filming him for a Lakeland Television program. Gerner related...
    NewsJanuary 17, 2010 - 4:11am
    October 30, 2009
    This photo shows cars along Third Street in downtown Bemidji in the early days of the city.
    'Bemidji Between The Wars': Local documentary depicts area history
    In 1966, while Bemidji Theater Manager Bud Woodard was cleaning out the building's attic in preparation for its sale as the Ben Franklin store,...
    entertainmentOctober 30, 2009 - 4:46pm
    September 24, 2009
    Buck Aldrich, now 100 years old, is the 10-year-old boy third from the left, front row, in this 1919 photo.
    Paperboy - the back story
    About three weeks ago, Maryanne Morgan brought to the Pioneer office a sepia-tone photo of 11 Bemidji Daily Pioneer delivery boys. She donated...
    News/localSeptember 24, 2009 - 1:03pm
    August 9, 2009
    Pathways Through Our Past
    Way back in 2001 Blackduck celebrated its 100th birthday with different types of programs or activities each month. It was a great year long party. Other things were going on during this time that you may or may not be aware of, and that was each township in our school district was...
    NewsAugust 9, 2009 - 8:08am
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