Happy Birthday Alan Poitra (76): Bloomington, MN
From Sharon Longie Dana (73): MIssoula MT
Happy Birthday Alan Poitra……hope you had a great day dear friend !! Many hugs to you !!
Sharon Longie Dana(73)
Message posted on our Website
Former Student locating Gary Fulsebakke (71)
From: Tina Cowling
E-mail: Message:
Hello. My name is Tina Cowling (maiden name- Herbert) and I am trying to get in contact with Gary Fulsebakke. He was my very first voice teacher in Roanoke, VA. I started with him when I was 6. I took lessons from him at a church- I think a Methodist church. We sang Pie Jesu together and he put me in a Christmas play on a night we hosted Miss Virginia.
I’m now 25, pursuing a career in opera, and really want to contact him. He was the first operatic voice I’d ever heard and it was a significant moment in my life. I even remember what song he was singing.
I googled his name and it brought me to this site. I also saw a picture and am sure it’s him. Would someone please be so kind as to pass my name – Tina Herbert- along to him??
Tina Herbert
tinacowling@gmail.com
Thank you!
Reply from Dan & Eunice Larson Lovass Niece
Doreen Larson Moran (Bottineau 61): Hazelton, ND & Usk, WA.
If it matters too much, Bob and I have our Dakota Retreat in Hazelton but our home is near Usk WA – the mountains of NE Washington about 60 mils south of the Canadian Border.
Anthony family Story – Part Three
From Vickie Metcalfe (70): Bottineau, ND
“Me Too?”
Anthony family story, part 3
Once upon the time of long ago, on Rabbit City Lake, Rose Metcalfe kept strict rules about water safety. For not just for her own, but, all the neighbor children, “No swimming until June 15!”
One fine spring day, when she was not in clear view, the ever-gathering community of barefooted children decided it was a hot day. They began to put their toes in the lake,___ just to cool off. Then, it went further. And further. And, so ended up, ________ahem,_____sh..“skinny dipping.”
The large woman with hands on her big hips surprised the children out of their revelry, raised her voice, sternly,” Out you all, come out at once!” In the midst of much frolic, and water play, Rose Metcalfe had arrived on the bank, over looking the inlet. Startled children made their way to shore, splish, splashed, and splashing, splash, SPLASH! And, climbed unabashed, out of the lake.
1 little, _ 2 little, _ 3 little, Metcalfe’s and others, numbers progressing upward, others including at the very end of the line, Ward Anthony.
Sternly, the mother of the Metcalfe’s said to them, “You all broke broke the rule, now line up,” as she’d reached for a young supple willow, snapped off a branch and had a switch in hand.
The laughing children promptly and soberly, all lined up.
In disbelief, Ward said solemnly lowering his voice,”Me too, Mrs. Metcalfe? ” She replied. “Yes, “You too Ward!” The children queued in line, each took their consequence. One by one, each got a “quick, brisk, switchin” across their wet bare legs, including the last in the line, Little Wardy.
Whenever Ward recounted the story, he’d stand up straight and proud, and then solemnly say, ” Mrs. Metcalfe treated me like her own.” She gave me my one and only spanking.” Later, after Ward had walked out the door, my dad, Cliff, would laughingly comment, “I don’t think Annie was too pleased about her little Wardy getting a spanking, but she never spoke of her displeasure to my mother.”
And so, that was the way it was, in the days when it was the accepted practice, long, long ago on Rabbit City lake, “when an entire Community i.e. Village came together and raised the child.”
Family Tales from Dad, (3) retold by Vickie Metcalfe Winter,2011
Picture from Neola Kofoid Garbe: Minot & Bottineau, ND
Hi Gary,
This is another Wondrasek picture. The name on the envelope is Melvin Boettcher. I sent the picture to Bonnie Boettcher Zeltinger, and asked her if she was Melvin’s daughter, and if she could identify the bowlers. Turns out she isn’t Melvin’s daughter, barely remembers him, but she thinks one of the bowlers might be Angus Campbell. When I read that, I knew you were the person I needed to send this picture to, as you know Angus well. 
Neola
Neola, Angus Campbell I don’t think is one of these guys. Enlarging this photo the names are
Bob, Larette, Mel, Mich and Marv.
I think Larette may be Larette Foster. He was married to Eileen Cote, sister to Theresa (Lloyd) Cote Awalt. I think these guys may be Omemme folks? I am thinking the Dunseith folks may be able to help us out with this photo. Gary
TB and the Book Westhope
Findings from Neola Kofoid Garbe: Minot & Bottineau, ND
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FORMER DRC CHAIR PERSEVERES—AND PUBLISHES
by Dean Hulse
Be willing to persevere. I’ve been heeding that advice
for years—not only as a DRC member working to weaken
the grip that coal interests and agribusinesses have on policy
makers—but also as a writer.
In April, the University of Minnesota Press will be releasing
Westhope: Life as a Former Farm Boy, a collection
of highly personal essays about growing up on a family
farm and small-town life. Writing these essays has helped
broaden my understanding of redemption, as it applies to
personal relationships and the human connection with nature.
My book will be available at many North Dakota bookstores,
as well as on line through Barnes & Noble,
Amazon.com and the University of Minnesota Press (http://
www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/hulse_westhope.html).
I’ll be giving an interview on Monday, April 13, at 3
p.m. CDT on “Hear It Now,” a North Dakota Public Radio
program. Here are some other events, which may be subject
to change:
• Thursday, April 16, a reading at Zandbroz in downtown
Fargo, 6:30 p.m.
• Saturday, April 18, a book signing at Barnes &
Noble in Bismarck, 1-3 p.m.
• Saturday, April 25, an author’s talk, reading and
book signing at Barnes & Noble in Fargo, 1-3 p.m.
• Wednesday, April 29, an author’s talk, reading and
book signing at the grand opening of the Fargo Public Library
in downtown Fargo, 7 p.m.
• Saturday, May 9, a book signing at Great Stories in
Jamestown (in same building as Babb’s coffee shop), noon-
4 p.m.
• Saturday, May 16, a book signing at B. Dalton
Bookseller in Fargo (West Acres Shopping Center), noon –
4 p.m.
There’ll be other goings-on, too—in Minot and possibly
in Valley City, Grand Forks and Dickinson. Call me at
701-232-7997 or contact me via e-mail (hulse@i29.net),
and I’ll provide updates.
(Dean Hulse, Fargo, was DRC Chair in 2004 and
2005 and currently represents DRC on the Western Organization
of Resource Councils Board of Directors.)
