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Ben and Marlene Trottier donate skate park to city
Ben and Marlene Trottier of Enderlin wanted to give the youth of the Enderlin community a place where they could practice their skateboard skills safely.
Happenings At Your Museum...
By Susan Schlecht,
Museum Co-Director
The Enderlin Histroical Museum received a grant to digitize archives through Digital Horizons. Digital Horizons was established in 2007 by a consortium including: Concordia College Archives, Moorhead, MN; NDSU Institute for Regional Studies & University Archives, Fargo, ND; Prairie Public Broadcasting, Fargo, ND; and State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck, ND.
Digital Horizons provides, maintains, and preserves a wide range of historical and significant content related to North Dakota and Minnesota. This project creates teaching, learning, and researching opportunities for life-long learning.
The Early Years
By Ellen Gross
View from the Back Yard
We had a back yard. A lot of living took place back there. We had a lawn in front of the house, where the pump island had stood. Not much of anything happened there; once a week in the summer I mowed the grass.
The back yard wasn’t lawn; it was mostly weeds. Dandelions grew in mass profusion, providing bouquets for the important women in my life.
Three pines stood in a row, like sentinels, running parallel with the house. Uncle Jiggs had brought them home for me. I wasn’t quite two years old at the time. He’d told mom I needed trees to grow with me. They were three feet tall. Their root balls were wrapped in gunny sacks. Jiggs flattened six metal oil cans, and put two in the bottom of each hole.