Pembina County’s past comes alive during Living History Day

  • Catherine Betchel (Kari Helgoe) shares about her family while a visitor uses a wringer washer. Photo by Larry Stokke
    Catherine Betchel (Kari Helgoe) shares about her family while a visitor uses a wringer washer. Photo by Larry Stokke
  • Items to be sealed inside the time capsule to be opened in 50 years. Photo by Larry Stokke
    Items to be sealed inside the time capsule to be opened in 50 years. Photo by Larry Stokke
  • G.B. Gunslogon (Curtis Olafson) takes a visitor on a Sunday drive in the 1925 Case Model X Suburban Coupe. Photo by Rebecca Davis
    G.B. Gunslogon (Curtis Olafson) takes a visitor on a Sunday drive in the 1925 Case Model X Suburban Coupe. Photo by Rebecca Davis

    Visitors to the Pembina County Museum had the chance to step back in time Sunday, Aug. 16, as historical figures from different eras of the county’s past came to life during Living History Day.

    Throughout the museum grounds, reenactors portrayed people ranging from early fur traders and settlers to a 1950s farmer and 1980s North Dakota Highway Patrolman.

    Each had a story to tell and a piece of local…