Archive by category History

Behind the Victory Flagpole – The man and the school

A long time ago there was a much admired man living in this area and his name was Floyd Bjornsterne Olson. He was born of immigrant Norwegian and Swedish …

Behind the Victory Flagpole – Santa is here

  T’was the night before Christmas and all over Camden Thousands of people were all out a scramblin’. Looking for last minute gifts very nice That …

Behind the Victory Flagpole – Food for thought

  Since the beginning of time there has been a huge revolution in the area of foods, from the time of Adam and Eve in their ‘apple orchard’ until now. …

Behind the Victory Flagpole – Little Jenny Lind

Reading and writing and ‘rithmetic, Taught to the tune of a hickory stick… That’s the vision I get when I think of a little school called Jenny …

Behind the Victory Flagpole – A Special Lake

Good news! I recently read in the Camden News that Ryan Lake has its own little park. Well, it’s about time! Not that it has gone unnoticed all these …

Behind the Victory Flagpole – The travelers three

Mother loved to travel. I don’t mean short trips down the Drive to Blomquist’s Market. I mean far away. It was always her, my sister Lorraine and …

Behind the Victory Flagpole – The Swedish recycler

I don’t know how many of my faithful readers to this column remember the article written in March of 2014 called “The Recycler.” It was all …

Behind the Victory Flagpole – The Orator

  How many people remember that Patrick Henry High School’s annual, which comes out every year at graduation time, is named “The …

Behind the Victory Flagpole – Amusement

Mom and Pop, please don’t let your children read this or they will think it grossly uncool! It involves the way kids used to play and their amusements …

Behind the Victory Flagpole – Furnish your home

Not too long ago I wrote a story about how to build your own log cabin. Now that they have all been finished, how did you furnish them? Did you go to the …