Ann Erling

6/13/2007: On this date in 1940, the evening edition of the Grand Forks Herald printed a photo of the 190 women who attended the first annual Northwestern counties’ Homemakers Rest Camp; a three day, three night summer camp for homemaking wives and mothers.

6/12/2007: As tension began to grow between Native Americans and US Government officials in Dakota Territory during the mid-1870s, a letter arrived in St. Paul, Minnesota addressed to Major James McLaughlin; a letter that would begin McLaughlin’s career as an Indian Agent. On this day in 1876, that fateful letter from Moses K. Armstrong completed its journey from Washington, DC and found itself in the hands of Major James McLaughlin.