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im inviceable.
Hope your area is drier crossing fingers
I am sure you will love it. All three of my kids are black belts (2 - 1st degree, and 1 - 2nd degree) through Songham Tae Kwon Do. They loved it.
You made it farther than me though :smile: I was a white belt for 6 months in Shotokan Karate.
...wonder what's on the Travel Channel? :chagrin:
kids in school, now have to go to Dawson, because they combined school districts.
Boyd Town Hall
Boyd Town Hall
one of my grandmas brothers worked in that office, while the family lived in town.
2. the other side of main street
3. a car wash and coin laundry in the same building
back in the late 90's the town had a controlled fire, and burned the house down, because it sat vacant for too long, and had gone to rot, basically....
then they filled in the foundation with dirt/grass...
I dug up a chunk of the foundation, and took 3 pieces... one for me, one for my sister, and one for my uncle.
this was one of them
2. some abandoned house/farm that we spotted from the road
3. the sunset, while we were driving
wasnt much to the town...
we met up with a guy that I located, who lives in town, and turned out to be my dads second cousin....
I brought all kinds of pictures to show him, and he showed me his old family photos...
he took us on a town "tour".... it lasted maybe 15-20 mins....
we checked out some cemetaries, looking for relatives, but didnt find any...
one of them was WAYYYYY out in the middle of noplace...
down a dirt road, through a field, paved by a set of tractor tires...
It was really cool, and very eerie at the same time...
He's also the one who gave us the rundown on what happend to the house where my grandmas family lived, and the history on the town and stuff...
The town is so old fashioned, that they have a siren (sounds like a tornado siren), that goes off every single day, at noon, 6, and 10, to let people know what time it is....
on mondays it goes twice at 6
theres a grain elevator right in the middle of town.... they rely mainly on corn, and wheat, around there....
we drove up there, on 212 out of Eden Prarie... spent a buncha hours in town, checking stuff out, and talking to Brent (my dads 2nd cousin)...
then spent the night in Montevideo.... drove back on highway 7... cause it was more scenic that way....
we're talking about making some time each year, to go camping there, possibly, so we have a reason to go back and visit....
even though theres basically nothing there, it still felt great to finally be there, after hearing about it for so long, when I was growing up - from my grandma....
we might also possibly go back, next year during "Good Time Days"... which, like the sign says, is supposedly the oldest continuest celebration in the midwest....
Brent was telling us that its really fun.... they have all kids of parties, and a softball tourney and stuff....
It went off at 5:55 as a warning that you had five minutes to punch in, 6:00 as of official start time, noon and 1:00 for lunch and again at 3:00 signaling the end of the day.
It was annoying at the time, but I'd love to hear that whistle again.
I enjoyed seeing your pictures, Nick.
Oh, and here's a panorama of those beautiful pictures you took of the MN River Valley Nick.
In that green pasture way off in the distance, we could see a herd of cows....
It was rather rainy/misty though, so we didnt get any more pics of it...
when we first pulled up, on our way out there though, my first thought was that the view there, must have been what it looked like, to look out from Mounds Park, hundreds of years ago....
there was also a really old NSP plant, not far from that location, as well.... had the letters NSP right on it, and some giant smoke stacks and stuff...
really cool
I especially liked the old town hall.
I take for granted that people know about the Souix Uprising
I knew bits and pieces about the uprising as well... just didnt know it happened so close to that area and stuff....
there were a lot of places marked as "camp release cemetary", just randomly on the sides of the roads.... and then markers/monuments like the one that we found...
that one had a really weird feel to it, too....
my uncle was telling me, that my grandma had told him once, that they used to make trips over the border, into South Dakota, from time to time, and that there was an Indian guy who kept trying to pick her up, when they would meet....
She jokingly told him once, that he and my dad came very close to becoming part Indian.
my grandma and one of her brothers and one of her sisters ended up there, when she was only 2 months old - from Toten, Norway....
Brent was saying that his family was from there too.... as were a few other families that originally lived in the town...
sounds like half of Boyd was from Toten...
we couldnt figure out why, of all places they picked Boyd.... that, and how the heck they got here to Swede Hollow, when they moved...
probably hopped on the train or something? :confused:
http://www.ellisisland.org
you can check original ship manifests and stuff for imigrants, and find when they came to the U.S. and where they came from.... where they were headed, how old they were, etc...
thats how we found out about my grandma and stuff....
she had told us about it, a long time ago, but its nice to actually see it in writing..
my grandma's first name is actually mis-spelled on the manifest.... her birth name was Dagny, but they have it listed as Iagny...
she changed it to Dorothy, later on in life... but... yeah....
Grand Central Station was cool though, Central park, eh, not so much.
BTW if you're going, you might as well visit the American Museum of Natural History, they've got the Hayden Planetarium. That was really cool, but then I'm biased...
http://haydenplanetarium.org/index.php
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