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Behind the Victory Flagpole – Little Jenny Lind

Reading and writing and ‘rithmetic, Taught to the tune of a hickory stick… That’s the vision I get when I think of a little school called Jenny …

Behind the Victory Flagpole – A Special Lake

Good news! I recently read in the Camden News that Ryan Lake has its own little park. Well, it’s about time! Not that it has gone unnoticed all these …

Behind the Victory Flagpole – The travelers three

Mother loved to travel. I don’t mean short trips down the Drive to Blomquist’s Market. I mean far away. It was always her, my sister Lorraine and …

Behind the Victory Flagpole – The Swedish recycler

I don’t know how many of my faithful readers to this column remember the article written in March of 2014 called “The Recycler.” It was all …

Behind the Victory Flagpole – The Orator

  How many people remember that Patrick Henry High School’s annual, which comes out every year at graduation time, is named “The …

Behind the Victory Flagpole – Amusement

Mom and Pop, please don’t let your children read this or they will think it grossly uncool! It involves the way kids used to play and their amusements …

Behind the Victory Flagpole – Furnish your home

Not too long ago I wrote a story about how to build your own log cabin. Now that they have all been finished, how did you furnish them? Did you go to the …

Behind the Victory Flagpole — Want a new home?

  Did you ever wonder how the pioneers built their homes and how you’d like to do the same thing as they did? Well, here is how they did it. First …

Behind the Victory Flagpole — Gym Dandy

How exciting it must have been to have a new school and to know that you must gather up some talented sporty guys to fill the teams! This is what happened at …

Behind the Victory Flagpole -Tales at the Falls

Everyone knows where St. Anthony is, but not everyone knows what went on there, especially at St. Anthony Falls. Old time pioneer, John H. Stevens, however, …