Back Then with Tracy Briggs

Marion Ross' first time in the spotlight was as a 13-year-old heroine in Albert Lea.

The Bachelors and Benedicts Dance Club formed in Fargo in 1898, in part, to help single men find women to marry. Then the traitors were invited.

After a meltdown for the ages, columnist Tracy Briggs shares that she took her husband's advice to decrease Christmas stress and carried it out with help from an old Sicilian friend.

It was an almost impenetrable copper box inside a cornerstone of Trinity Lutheran Church. Members learned it was a time capsule with surprises from the past, but what did the past want to share?

The Forum set out to answer an intriguing question: What are the oldest restaurants in the Fargo-Moorhead area that still exist today? You might be surprised at what we learned.

John Denver spent a lot of time in the upper Midwest touring and living here. Some readers shared memories of their 'brushes with his greatness' after a recent column and podcast by Tracy Briggs.

The genealogy site MyHeritage has introduced a new feature that lets you (or photos of you) time travel to different decades. Hear which time period WDAY anchors Kealy and Mogck and Forum writers Tracy Briggs, Tammy Swift, John Lamb and Jeff Kolpack all belong.

As the Fargo Theatre welcomes a John Denver tribute show Dec. 3, a look back at the Minnesotan who inspired more than one of his songs and how the state's cold spring inspired another.

Master Sgt. Chester Ovnand was born in Thief River Falls and also spent part of his childhood in Adams, North Dakota. He was assigned to an eight-man American Military Assistance Advisory Group sent to train South Vietnamese troops. He was stationed at a base camp in Bien Hoa, 20 miles northeast of Saigon, where trouble was brewing.

Beverly Hanson, a 1941 Fargo Central High graduate, was the first-ever winner of the LPGA Championship and had a hugely successful career in golf. So why isn't she better known?

To read more and see photos, find this story here at inforum.com.