Monday, July 10, 2000
It’s not too late to sow seeds of many short season vegetables. Many gardeners want to get all their seeds in and then just let it grow! But staggering planting dates will give you a longer harvest season. This week there
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"Where Fillmore County News Comes First"
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It all started with White Beaver
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Monday, July 31, 2000
I’ve always been a bit skeptical, I’ll admit, about Buffalo Bill’s Lanesboro connection. Never having seen any mention in Fillmore County history books that the legendary scout, buffalo hunter and showman ever spent any time in this area, it seemed curious in 1985, that Lanesboro would begin hosting a festival called Buffalo Bill Days.
That always sounded like quite a stretch to me. But for that matter, Chatfield has an annual summer festival called Western Days. Wouldn’t it be more accurate to call it Midwestern Days? And if Preston wanted to be candid about the vast majority of catchable fish in its surrounding streams, they’d call their spring festival, Shiner Days or Chub Days instead of Trout Days.
Over in Spring Valley a couple years ago, they changed the name of Ag Days to Wilder Fest, apparently due to the fact that cable reruns of Litttle House on the Prairie were more popular than the farmers’ morning Channel 10 favorite Ag-Day.
I suppose a town can take as much license as it likes when it comes to naming its annual festival. Still, if Buffalo Bill really did have something to do with Lanesboro, I wanted to find out what it was. And with the town’s 16th annual Buffalo Bill Days coming up on August 4th, now seemed like an opportune time to do some investigating.
DR. FRANK ‘WHITE BEAVER’ POWELL of Lanesboro and Buffalo Bill Cody were business associates and best friends. Pictured in this 1890’s era photograph from left to right are White Beaver, George Powell, Will Powell and Buffalo Bill Cody. Photo courtesy of Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming
The White Beaver connection
"It all started with White Beaver," Don Ward, Lanesboro’s preeminent historian, told me last week. "He was a great friend of Buffalo Bill’s."
White Beaver was the name given to Dr. David Frank Powell, by a Sioux chief who was grateful when Powell cured his daughter of an illness. Powell lived in Lanesboro in the 1870’s and by all accounts practiced a unique brand of 19th century medicine. He was a colorful and multi-faceted man who never shied away from self-promotion. He was a mystical healer who concocted his own herbal tonics and in a published declaration claimed that he possessed "an extraordinary natural development of the perceptive faculties" which aided him in diagnosing the diseases of his patients.
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I’ve always been a bit skeptical, I’ll admit, about Buffalo Bill’s Lanesboro connection. Never having seen any mention in Fillmore County history books that the legendary scout, buffalo hunter and showman ever spent any time in this area, it seemed curious in 1985, that Lanesboro would begin hosting a festival called Buffalo Bill Days.
That always sounded like quite a stretch to me. But for that matter, Chatfield has an annual summer festival called Western Days. Wouldn’t it be more accurate to call it Midwestern Days? And if Preston wanted to be candid about the vast majority of catchable fish in its surrounding streams, they’d call their spring festival, Shiner Days or Chub Days instead of Trout Days.
Over in Spring Valley a couple years ago, they changed the name of Ag Days to Wilder Fest, apparently due to the fact that cable reruns of Litttle House on the Prairie were more popular than the farmers’ morning Channel 10 favorite Ag-Day.
I suppose a town can take as much license as it likes when it comes to naming its annual festival. Still, if Buffalo Bill really did have something to do with Lanesboro, I wanted to find out what it was. And with the town’s 16th annual Buffalo Bill Days coming up on August 4th, now seemed like an opportune time to do some investigating.
DR. FRANK ‘WHITE BEAVER’ POWELL of Lanesboro and Buffalo Bill Cody were business associates and best friends. Pictured in this 1890’s era photograph from left to right are White Beaver, George Powell, Will Powell and Buffalo Bill Cody. Photo courtesy of Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming
"It all started with White Beaver," Don Ward, Lanesboro’s preeminent historian, told me last week. "He was a great friend of Buffalo Bill’s."
White Beaver was the name given to Dr. David Frank Powell, by a Sioux chief who was grateful when Powell cured his daughter of an illness. Powell lived in Lanesboro in the 1870’s and by all accounts practiced a unique brand of 19th century medicine. He was a colorful and multi-faceted man who never shied away from self-promotion. He was a mystical healer who concocted his own herbal tonics and in a published declaration claimed that he possessed "an extraordinary natural development of the perceptive faculties" which aided him in diagnosing the diseases of his patients.
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Scenes from Childhood
Monday, July 10, 2000
We stand on a cracked sidewalk, looking across a cyclone fence at vacant lots and trees, all that remains of the Sumner Field Housing Projects in North Minneapolis. In 1938, the year he was born, my husband's family becam .....
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We stand on a cracked sidewalk, looking across a cyclone fence at vacant lots and trees, all that remains of the Sumner Field Housing Projects in North Minneapolis. In 1938, the year he was born, my husband's family becam .....
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The elusive Blue Racer
Monday, July 24, 2000
In an edition of this column published earlier this year (Fillmore County Journal Vol. 15, No. 34, May 29, 2000) we briefly examined how the physical geography of the Upper Mississippi River Valley, in combination with th .....
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In an edition of this column published earlier this year (Fillmore County Journal Vol. 15, No. 34, May 29, 2000) we briefly examined how the physical geography of the Upper Mississippi River Valley, in combination with th .....
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A mystery writer visits
Monday, July 10, 2000
Running a motel in Helena, Montana, was a very confining business, the mystery writer and Chatfield native, Elizabeth Gunn told an audience last week at the Harmony Public Library. "There were whole years where we didn’t .....
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Running a motel in Helena, Montana, was a very confining business, the mystery writer and Chatfield native, Elizabeth Gunn told an audience last week at the Harmony Public Library. "There were whole years where we didn’t .....
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Hauling
My family and I went to a wedding in Wisconsin on a recent Saturday morning. The wedding site was straight east of our place about one hundred twenty miles. There was no good way of getting there due to the negligence of the last glacier that failed
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The accidental artist
For Hong Kong native Peter Mak, the journey to Lanesboro isn't as far as it seems. You see, Mak's exhibition of art work at Cornucopia Art Center has a local connection. Mak's wife is Barbara Tammel, the daughter of Marilyn and Donne Tammel of rural
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Curdlecod goes Asiatic
Chester and Cynthia Curdlecod are the local gourmets of Flabbergast County and one evening last week we were invited to their home for dinner. They take pride in their ability to prepare sumptuous meals from the local fish, fowl and fauna and avoid b
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Journal Profile # 76
Home: Trotwood, Ohio
Profession: Domestic Engineer
Family: Husband Anthony, four daughters: Autumn-20, Candice-18, Olivia-13, Carmen-10, and one son Charles-8
Personal Hero: Laura Ingalls Wilder for wisdom, wit, s .....
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Profession: Domestic Engineer
Family: Husband Anthony, four daughters: Autumn-20, Candice-18, Olivia-13, Carmen-10, and one son Charles-8
Personal Hero: Laura Ingalls Wilder for wisdom, wit, s .....
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