Hi all. Part of me hopes you’re still checking back and that your interest in our summer project hasn’t waned. Part of me hopes you haven’t checked in awhile because I’m a little (a lot) embarrassed at my failure as a consistent blogger. This is Taryn. I’m back in Minneapolis because my job at the [...]
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It’s been awhile since our last trip. We’re busy catching up on the work we already have in front of us (we have 5 weddings to edit plus a few other sessions for Kendra and I’ve got five great towns to write about). I hope you didn’t think we’d given up or dropped off the [...]
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On more than one occasion throughout this project, people have instinctively corrected Kendra and I when we refer to their “town” rather than their “community.” We interviewed a family in western ND whose ranch straddles an invisible line between Watford City and New Town. Another family chose to send their kids to school in Watford, [...]
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We stood in Wayne Johnson’s kitchen gazing at a painting hung on the wall. “I call it ‘The Ultimate Energy Harvest,’” he said. He was pacing back and forth, looking from the painting to the window and talking with his hands. Wayne is the fourth generation of his family to farm in Stanley, N.D. He’s [...]
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We started our adventure in Underwood, N.D. where we followed around a young resident who introduced us to what its like to know everyone you walk by and have stories for every part of town. Every time he started a sentence with “You don’t understand Underwood until…” or “I remember when…”, we knew we picked [...]
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While driving from Minot to Grand Forks this morning, Taryn spotted this old run-down church somewhere along Highway 2, outside of Rugby. We were intrigued, so we pulled over so I could snap a few pictures. As I walked closer, I saw a sign indicating it to be a former church-school, built in 1915. Its [...]
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