Back Then with Tracy Briggs

Grand Forks high schoolers attempted to set a teeter-totter world record in 1966


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I’ve mentioned before how I love that my job at The Forum allows me to spend countless hours deep in the archives of the newsroom. Most of the time, I’m scrolling through the microfilm and digging for specific news stories, but occasionally I'm surprised by unexpected news nuggets that make me smile.

One photo I found is an example of that. It's from the April 20, 1966, edition of The Forum and shows two young men on a teeter-totter. Fourteen high school boys in Grand Forks set out to break a world record in teeter-tottering — and they did it in the snow and cold.

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Back Then with Tracy BriggsBy Forum Communications Co.