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 in the Dakotas ... Livestock froze and people died for want of m…