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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1962
Page
8
A nostalgic look at the 1833 Leonids meteor shower described as a world changing spectacle with meteors filling the sky from several directions. Accounts from Boston to Charleston note fireballs bright trains and dramatic sounds, while later showers stir hopes for a repeat in the 1960s.
Wallingford and Estherville residents attended a family reunion at Fort Defiance Park in Estherville and later toured Arnolds Park. Rochester Minnesota visitors stayed in the John Thomas home. Mary Ann Egeland tours Cornwall & Cornwall and accompanies her mother. Luther League camping and leadership events drew 160 high school leaguers with participants from Graettinger and Wallingford. Mary Rasmussen left for Meno Mania Wisconsin for about a month. Families of Norman Anderson, Janet Rustad, Ordine Olson, Levi Olson, and Avis Paut were noted among attendees.
The article notes a Olson family reunion at Wes Sevdy’s Humboldt home with Loren Anderson staying at Levi Olson’s home to help with field work after Mr Olson’s illness. Lena Gunderson of Estherville visited at dinner with Orville Rustad. Duane Rustad, age eight, had his tonsils removed and stayed with his mother overnight at the hospital. Pred Frenk and associates from Wallingford and Estherville spent time on the Iowa 4-H Campus Visits Program, with a Brookside Park barbecue and a 4-H party at Memorial Union.
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