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Bemidji childhood recollections and local figures
Reminiscences recount early life in Bemidji including neighbors, a bank family, a harness maker, Halley’s Comet fears, and frequent moves. The narrator describes street life on Irvine and America Avenues, Swedback’s lumbering, local tradesmen, and selling roasted peanuts for Miss Hultgren while watching trains pass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bemidji
Sheriff A. B. Hazen
Irvine Avenue
Francis
Halley
America Avenue
Jimmy Caulfield
Harold
Hultgren
Markham