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- Did this cabin on Little Bemidji Lake once belong to Al Capone?
Rumors have circulated for 100 years that Capone was a Minnesota lake lover and friend to the owner of East Grand Forks "Whiteys" bar. But is it fact or fiction?
Read more from Tracy Briggs at https://www.inforum.com/tracy-briggs
12 min - A small-town waitress in North Dakota recalled the night she served steak to Al Capone
Stella Hildre was only a teenager when the gun-toting gangsters "in fine clothes" asked her to lock the doors of her family's cafe and serve them dinner. It became a night she'd never forget.
Read more from Tracy Briggs here: https://www.inforum.com/tracy-briggs.
10 min - In the 1920s, a lawman in North Dakota had a dark secret - He was Al Capone's brother
Sometimes called "the white sheep" of the family, what would make Vincenzo Capone choose to fight the booze trade that was making his little brother Al the most powerful gangster in the world?
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13 min - Mourning the loss of our HASH jeans, leisure suits and other vintage favorites
Did you once have an item of clothing that made you feel like a million bucks? Where did it go? And why the heck did you get rid of it?
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12 min - This Clay County pioneer was a handsome, hard-working man with a prickly side
The Probstfield name is well known in Moorhead. Now a new book digs deeper into the lives of Catherine Probstfield and her 'difficult' husband Randolph.
Read more from Tracy Briggs at https://www.inforum.com/tracy-briggs.
9 min - During WWII, North Dakota kids traded in their Valentines to help the war effort, while adults sent Camels
On Valentine's Day 1942, the war was less than three months old, but children were already in the fight.
Read this and more from Tracy Briggs at inforum.com/tracy-briggs.
6 min - After battling the Great Chicago Fire this N.D. governor became a swashbuckling pirate
Fred Fancher also survived North Dakota's deadliest blizzard, wrote the state constitution, and became a multimillionaire businessman.
Check out more stories from Tracy Briggs at https://www.inforum.com/tracy-briggs
8 min - Saying goodbye to 'one of the greatest women you'll ever meet'
Esther Allen, 88, died Dec. 18, 2022 in Moorhead after a long battle with Alzheimer's. She paved the way for generations of women, including me.
10 min - Amelia Earhart ate dinner with a local family after being stranded at the Fargo airport
A former Fargo woman said her pilot father once brought the great aviator home for supper and a night of incredible stories.
11 min - Why suspected paranormal activity at a WWII-era North Dakota one-room school reached the FBI
Officials called it "the most baffling and mysterious fire cases" in the state's history. Who or what was responsible?
10 min
About Back Then with Tracy Briggs
From the publisher's feed
Midwest memories of the good old days and a few cool people we've met along the way.
Find more stories by Tracy Briggs here: https://www.inforum.com/tracy-briggs