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This family built a stone castle in my hometown in Washington state. They don’t let anyone in it though
We were still sneaking into the drive in, in the 1980's lol.
LOVE THIS PAM ❤
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still-motion photography pictures. Enabling viewers to better understand what the orators & guest speakers were describing. Along with detailed maps & schematic diagrams.😉.
❤ I love her so much. Another possible aid is Mnsr Rossetti's deliverance videos.
The Ojibs at FDL all got in their canoes and said "eff this shit" and paddled off
Bozho! My family originated with the St Joseph River Band Potawatomi. Moved to the reservation at St Mary’s, Kansas where my 2nd and great grandfathers were born and assimilated. In 1892, the signedfor allotments in what is now Corbell, OK. We still have a little of the allotment land. I do ceremony with the Mission Band Potawatomi here in OK where the elders went up North to learn and bring our culture back. Megwech.
Compassion does not work on bpd folks, those that know, know I am correct on this.
I quit for 60 days then i have insomnia and depression very bad so now im on nicotine patch for my brain
Washington now sees guys like this as the enemy. They understand the corruption in DC and would be the first to defy the leftist takeover.
Ain't the internet GREAT! All information on demand at any time! It's like having a library in your home!
Anishinaabe are keepers of the freshest water of the world. I didn't make that up. ❤
I was born in 1940 and came of age in the 1950s. It was such an exciting and interesting era. Grew up on a farm where we had no electricity or telephone service. The only technology was a battery powered radio. By 1960 there was a massive transformation in the way we lived and worked. I had not yet decided what my future would be. The most obvious path was to remain on the farm and take it over some day. But I had a great interest in radio and electronics that lead me into a career in the mainframe computer business.
cant wait!
Oh my, what a find! Congratulations General Hein! From 1972-1975, I was an USAF Aerospace Control & Weapons System Controller stationed inside the "block house" at Duluth AFB. Our SAGE control center was part of the eyes in the sky Distant Early Warning system (DEW Line) for North Central US and Canada. We had wonderful partners with Canadian Air Force controllers working along side of us. Our other partners were on the other wide of the air field---the MN Air National Guard 128th Fighter Wing flying F-101B for intercept missions. Highly skilled team. We used "computerized radar scopes" linked to a HUGE vacuum tube computer that occupied the entire second floor of the building. I was transferred to Duluth from my previous assignment in Iceland (also part of the DEW Line) where we had WWII era manual radar scopes. What a delight to live and work in Duluth! To this day, it is my favorite memory of my Air Force service. Minnesotans are wonderful and welcoming. Spirit Mountain opened while I was there where I learned to snow ski. Spent MANY off days ship watching at Canal Park, eating at local restaurants, curling, and learning how to drive on ice & snow covered roads with my 4-speed manual Toyota on the hillsides of your beautiful city.
Great show!
Great to know what went on to forge the city that has evolved to become the city I now love above all cities. Today is it's heyday!
What a great story and what a great pair of interviewees!
Cant wait for the entire show.
this was an amazing film. i actually come from a rather larger family from the woodland area by the name of sawyer and i spent my entire childhood and early adult life in east duluth there. i spent 1000s of hours in the park system areas of congdon and lester parks and there really are steps seamingly embedded into the hills all over. like one at lester thats a little ways above the actual park near a gulf course there is a trail that has steps that help egress down a otherwise quiet dangerous rock hill that ends at a rather magical storybookesk waterfall that has a perfect pool at the base of it. friends a i would go there to swim in the pool on hot summer days. in fact i took my first actual date there, whom i would years later have children with, and it was there that i sucked up the curage and had my first kiss. and here i never realized it was all thanks to the kindness and love of duluth that this man had. wow typing all this out brings quiete a few tears to my eyes, not just from missing someone now gonea few years now, but also for the many changes this city has gone throug, the rise of steel the many jobs that factories and fabrication gave to duluth, now none of which remain any longer for a good long while now. noone likes to admit it but duluth has been akin to someone sick in a hospital bed for a long time now and thankfully shes populated by alot of incredibly smart, very tallented open thinking people with that "minnesota mentality" that genuinly almost is exclusive to here that have come up with very genious ideas like turning canal and the shore into the gorgeous tourist attraction that it is today. did anyone know that in the 80s where the 2 big hotels now stand resided a disgusting auto scrap yard? and the lake shore was pouluted and littered with rebar all over. anyone would be suicidal to think to swim anywhere near. but everyone knew, industry was dying. there existed a billboard just south of duluth in those times that read "last one to leave duluth remember to turn out the light" as a clever insult to the phenomina of the large amounts of people moving away then and all the big companies like the giant steel mill just off bong bridge that employed damn near the whole town, or diamond tool company, or acme matches just to name a few of the BIG ones. all gone in every form not even a husk of building they resided in remains. thankfully we seem to embrace the very unique natural landscapes around us and at least we are still the tippy tip of the last great lake so theres that but damned if our only real thing is turism now. i cant help but think of how mr congdon would feel if he was told that this is how itd be, just enough people that care to keep it nice, but all the while there are unprecidented amounts of souls living litterally on street corners all over downtown. most neglected by a system that would love to just sweep them under a rug day in and day out most eventually resulting in drug use as a way to hopfully numb the reality. being born and raised here i know a few of those unfortunate to befall this fate and it doesnt seem to inprove. this is a town of 100k people not big buit not tiny either. we clearly have enough $ to hire on a rediculous amount of police and emergency personel AND furnish each and every one with top of the line brand new intercepter suvs newest fire trucks all the jazzy equipment build multiple new police stations and shut down the one that was centrally located at courthouse forever which im sure all totals out to a number that is astronomic yet all the time people ive known my whole life are wrapped up with blankets when its genuinly freezing outside and overdosing at such a rate that i am becoming desensitized to it. long ago this great family shared their welth so that a entire city would be better for it in ways that 100 years later still exist allowing a geeky boy to be inspired to have the guts to kiss the girl that was way out of his league under the sparkle of the pools of lester falls. i only now realize how if not for what people like them i quiet possibly would have never had what i did. i am sure this whole comment is a big mess of mixed points and it may seem like a weird way to commenorate a family as great as the congdons but i truely feel like without people like them its becoming very obvious how duluth will end up. i for one am all the more proud that i am from duluth and moved back home here i just really hope something actually changes because what ive stated here, thats reality. people are hurting and dying either by their hand, the cities blind eyes or by opiodes and somthing needs to change. otherwise before too long there wont be any sons or daughters of duluth left. and if that happens then this will just be another town somewhere, no duluth magic left, that spark weve always had will just fade away. if anyone actually read this this far thank you for sticking through it with me and im sorry that this drew out like this ambien at 2am can get a bit quarky. and if your one of those struggling out there, please know your not alone,someone does care and there are more than a few kind hearts here that truly care and there are suppport options out there even if somtimes difficult to attain. my mother has this saying ive heard her say it to me my whole life now "this to shall pass" short and simple but when ive hit my lowest lows thats always helped me, like when my love passed away far too young at only 26 and i felt so much pain that i though of deleting myself more than a few times moms words alway kept me going even if just barely. what losing that did to me still affects me daily but she was right. maybe not by a whole lot but it did get better with time. sorta. enough to at least live. i hope than anyone that reads this thinks deeply on what people live them did for our city and each of us here and next time you see someone struggling or in a shit situation instead of turning to look the other way, do somthing different. and dont just throw money at them, money alone doesnt fix this kind of problems, youd be shocked at how much just looking someone in the eye and giving them a genuine smile could be enough to make someone feel like thay matter and exist and maybe even prevent them from giving up. im going to end this madmans rant at that now. hopfully maybe just even one person reads this and it helps to create a pivot point in life that makes duluth brighter, healthier and more duluthian. i think it def helped me to refocus my feelings on the topic as well as made me appreciate how and where duluth came from. :)
My family lived in Babbitt when I was born in 1960. We left n '66, but my sister stayed there. Babbitt had moved too. The original town (Old Babbitt), had been part of an early go at mining, but this was before taconite was profitable and the town withered. After the new processing became efficient, the mines built Silver Bay by Lake Superior, and built a new Babbitt down on the town potato field, then connected them together with a train to haul the ore.
Borderline is not a choice. Do not judge us for something we did not do.
After My buddy and I left the plane in California we were getting into a taxi, a guy spit at my foot. I'm positive the guy had to have stiches above his right eye.
I’ll never go to a VA again. I served in the USMC - 0311 infantry rifleman - went into a VA hospital around 2014 or 15 and talked to a guy a couple times. He basically said there wasn’t much I could do for you. Kept trying a few times but they couldn’t do anything or wouldn’t so I just figured I’d deal with it by myself.
NEVER SHUT UP BECAUSE OF MONGALOIDZATION PLURSEY
TOOK ATROPULOIUS ATLANTIS SPECTRUM MEDIA CABLE TO SCRAP IN REM VIDEO
congratulations to PBS North for these important documentaries. So vital to record those who are alive and who remember before they are lost
So many fireplaces yet only four chimneys. How did these buildings stay warm? Looks to me that elections were being stolen back then and competition was mysteriously being eliminated. Nothing has changed. Rockefeller still owns our country. Prayers for change. The best is yet to come
There are three women in my office who have expressed interest in me. All three are single and have kids. I have dodged all three. Not interested! Previous job was the same. I actually had two of the women pull me aside and ask me why a wouldn't go out with them. They thought i might be gay. Nope! Not gay. Just done with women. Divorced with no kids. Went thru quite a few girlfriends before i wised up and quit the BS. Now i am a happy single man without all the relationship stress. It's not worth it. Most of the women of today do not even realize how unattractive and difficult they have become. They are off the charts crazy!
Delighted to hear that.. greetings from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪
I hope you are still kicking Larry . Glad that the VA helped you out . .. doc ( Army ) 70--71 RVN ..
fyi trump was president when he said they don't trust the government And the government is trying to take their benefits.What happened?T, oh, the military loves me so much.I'm so great he's a judas goat
The reason they're cutting your benefits is because the government likes giving free money to people who didn't earn it.That don't have jobs , it's all the special interest groups who take money away from people like you , and it's disgusting , and it's not just democrats the republicans do the exact same thing
If the government wanted to win that war we would have one that war They didn't get into it to defeat anybody but americans
If you watch enough interviews you'll get bits And pieces of what it was really like there
I think it's important to have more group homes in Duluth and ejection and help the mom's and dad's reunited family and protecting us from others and build New reality life education and resources for the homeless people in the USA and do whatever it takes to takel the problem and none profits and education is always good for people here i can't make ends meet with group homes charge us rent for a small room it costs me more than hoseing and it's Rong and it's important to help others on the streets with totel neglect and it's sad to see what I see in Duluth and in power one another I'm thankful for the help but I'm stuck
I’ve been to this museum.
I failed more times than I can remember, I'm free now but we're never completely free from addiction, we're on probation for the rest of our lives.
Welcome home brother...72 yo Navy Veteran
That is an awesome piece of conversation starter
They also used rockets for testing the cf105 avro arrow models...I believe they attacked the models to Nike boosters
Brainwashing dudes to marry and mate with plain brunettes
One person's missile another person's treasure!
As someone who has volunteered at the museum multiple times, I can confirm that the archives are very cool. From military uniforms to cannon balls, the archive has a little bit of everything. The main attraction at the Museum though is the P-38 Replica of Richard I. Bongs Airplane, the remains of which historians are currently trying to locate on an Island off of Papa New Guinea 🇬🇳. The original plane was lent to another pilot during the war, who crashed it during a flight over Papa New Guinea (he survived).
The second I heard it was found at the Great Lakes, I immediately thought of the Nike missile batteries. Pleasantly surprised to see it was part of one!
My cousin was killed in Nam in July 69. Hurt us so bad. left behind a wife and unborn son.he was from North Augusta South Carolina
We had tons of Nike sites and testing zones in the north east
I thought it was somebody's woodwork too 😂
Is it made from titanium ?
Excellent...thanks!
Dick Bong was a helluva pilot