Snakes, preachers and Fire Festivals
by Merry Helm
April 26, 2021 — This week’s news in 1900 included plans for the annual Fargo Fire Festival. A major portion of the city had burned to the ground seven years before, and the festival had become a means for celebrating the town’s comeback.
According to The Fargo Forum, the three-day celebration was to be a reproduction of a New Orleans Mardi Gras cele…