On this date in 1993, the Bismarck Tribune reported that Agnes Geelan had died three days earlier in a Fargo nursing home. One biographer called her \“one of North Dakota's grand ladies.\” Another called her \“debater extraordinary.\” Another called her \“a North Dakota legend.\”
Homer George and the 'Climb the Tower' contest was just one chapter in North Dakota's impressive, world-renowned TV tower history. The tower was the same height as the Empire State Building.