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Lola Metcalfe Vanory’s pictures provided by Vickie Metcalf (’70)
Posted by Karen Larson (Bottineau Spectrum):

Hi Gary

I brought some more of Lola’s photos to Karen at the Spectum circa early 1950’s.

I thought they should be enlarged to see the faces.

Karen told me she’d send the prints as they are to you.

And she thought perhaps you can enlarge so just the people are shown?

The group picture was taken at fall harvest 1951 (Ella’s handwriting)

Back Standing
Gary Metcalfe, Jimmy Metcalfe, Gordon Strong, Cliff Nerpel, Leroy Strong, Louis Bergan.
Lola, Patti and Jim

The Kirkwold’s stalwarts of the Little Prairie Church, are buried at Little Prairie.

The photo of Joe Menard, Andy Patenaude and Martin Lee with his Ford, were contemporaries of Jim and Ella Metcalfe.

Gary Metcalfe, Jimmy Metcalfe, Gordon Strong, Cliff Nerpel, Leroy Strong, Louis Bergan.
Lola, Patti and Jim Metcalfe.

Tom and Hannah Kirkwald. Lived in Little Prairie

Joe Menard, Andy Patenaude and Martin Lee

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Blog (582) posted on October 4, 2009

Posted on October 4, 2009

Folks, I got mixed up with my numbering of these daily messages yesterday. Yesterday’s should have been 574, not 581. I am just continuing from 581 now though. Gary

Reply from Florence Hiatt Dahl (50): Anchorage, AK

Reading Erling Landsverk’s memory of working with black people brought back the memory of beling sent to Cook County Hospital in Chicago as student nurses from Trinity Hospital back in the early fifty.s. A black nurses aide took us North Dakotans as her personal friends. She was wonderful—we absolutely loved her. She took us to zoo.s, parks, museums and old churches and down ”town”. Places we would never have found on our own. Just a couple weeks before we finished the Psych,Neuro and Contage part of our training, we were called in for a lecture………………and informed that ”this” relationship had to stop or she would be fired. Erling you are right.

Reply from Cheryl Larson Dakin (71): BEDFORD, TX

HI Gary and all

Erling Landsverk is so right about meeting people blindfolded and getting to know them before we form opinions. Because we grew up in the service and moved so often, we met people from so many cultures and so many walks of life. We didn’t have time to consider color when choosing our friends. We just wanted to be able to play and get together because before long we would be moving again. We were all in the same boat. If there was any prejudice, we weren’t influenced by it. When Dad retired and we moved to Bottineau my senior year, I had a teacher who taught a family and living class. She pointed out that as I was new to the class and had lived such a diverse life, and had gone to school with black kids, maybe I could tell the class what they were like. I understand now what may have prompted the question but could no more answer to it today than I could then.

Cheryl Dakin

News paper clippings posted by Neola Kofoid Garbe: Minot & Bottineau, ND

Folks, Martin is now deceased, but his threshing machines are still on display. His son Kenny has them display across the road from his house. Kenny lives a short distance east of where his folks lived. I don’t remember the exact directions how to get to Kenny’s place, but I know how to get to Martin’s former place. Using Salem church on Highway 43 as a starting point. Go west on 43 about a half mile to the first intersection. Take a left and go south about a mile or so until the road comes to an end. Take another left and go east about a mile or maybe less. Take the first road to the right going south. Martin Rude’s home place is down that road less than a mile on the right. Kenny lives to the east of there a short distance the way the crow flies. I’m not that familiar with the side roads in that area. Dad took me there several times to see these threshing machines, but I have forgotten the exact layout of the roads. It’s a very impressive sight seeing all these machines lined up along the road. Gary