Dakota Datebook

60 Below by Merry Helm February 15, 2020 — On this date in 1936, the temperature plummeted to 60 below in Parshall – and that’s one state record nobody wants to break. Lucy Goldthorpe, a young, single schoolteacher, told a reporter about her first year homesteading near Epping. “That winter of 1906-07 was the worst known up to that time...

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