Presenting Farm Girls

Candace Simar, in collaboration with her sister Angela Foster, present a collection of poems and essays in their book Farm Girls. If you learned to swear in Norwegian or shared a two-holer outhouse with your cousin, you’ll enjoy the … [Read More]
Television Interview – Common Ground
Watch as Candace spends time with the good people from Common Ground. If you've watched their program, you know they highlight different artists in Northern Minnesota.
Author Blog
Lauraine Snelling at the Minot Hostfest
Reading Lauraine Snelling’s Red River of the North Series back in the 1990s gave me permission to celebrate my Scandinavian roots. I remember the euphoric feeling I experienced when I read about her characters’ immigration to America and their subsequent struggle to get established in Minnesota and North Dakota. Her stories reminded me of… [Continue Reading]
1863 Murders at Fort Pomme de Terre after Sioux Uprising
This week marks the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the Fort Pomme de Terre murders. Union solders were stationed at the newly-built Fort Pomme de Terre, after the 1862 Sioux Uprising. Letters from homesick soldiers talked of the monotony of the isolated outpost along the Pomme de Terre River between present-day Elbow Lake and Ashby,… [Continue Reading]





