If you’re one of those cooped up Americans longing to get back out there and explore, perhaps you might take a page from Hemingway’s impressive travelogue.
March 1, 1937 â May 10, 2021
âTwas 1937 that a mid-February blizzard blocked the 12 miles of road between Cove and La Grande, Oregon.
Edward Harvey Campbell, who was serving as superintendent of the Cove School District, and his wife, Carmen Olive Celestine Touvenel Campbell, were expecting their first child. Mrs. Proctor, the Cove postmaster, organized a brigade of farmers and ranchers to open one lane of the road to get Mrs. Campbell to the Grande Ronde Hospital in La Grande. They got there but, no baby appeared. Not liking that cold bumpy ride in mid-February, I decided to wait until there was warmth and sunshine, which there was on March 1. Such was the weather when I made my debut to the world. I think spiliyay taught me that trick.
A family connection meant Fargo learned of Ernest Hemingway s death before the world
Two men share their recollections of how a former Fargo Forum editor got the scoop on the 1961 death of enigmatic author Ernest Hemingway. Written By: Robin Huebner | ×
Ernest Hemingway writing at his campsite in Kenya, Africa, 1953-1954. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
FARGO When the world learned of the death of famed American novelist Ernest Hemingway 60 years ago, it’s likely that information came by way of Fargo.
A coincidental connection between a newspaper editor’s family and Hemingway allowed the shocking and tragic news to filter through North Dakota, even before it reached other news outlets across the globe.
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On July 2, 1961, Hemingway took his own life at his home near Sun Valley ski resort in Ketchum, Idaho. He was 61 years old.
John D. Paulson was the editor of what was known as The Fargo Forum at the time.
His sister Helen was married to Dr. Fred Kolouch, and the couple had a cabin just down the hill from Hemingway’s home in Ketchum.
As soon as Kolouch learned that Hemingway had shot himself with a shotgun, he immediately called Paulson, his brother-in-law and journalist, in Fargo.