Jun
29
The Power of the Press and the Pursuit of Photos
Who says no one is reading newspapers anymore?
Last week, The Crookston Times published an article about my recent trip to Crookston with my parents and our search for more information about my great-grandfather, G. Oliver Riggs (here's the blog entry I wrote about the article). The day the article ran, I received emails from two men who had read the story and had information to share.
One man had played in the high school band under G. Oliver's successor in Crookston, T.W. Thorson, and has a band program from a 1906 concert where G. Oliver was the director and his wife, Islea, was the accompanist. He's going to look for it in his files and send it to me.
The other man is the grandson of Harry H. Chesterman, who moved to Crookston with his parents in 1892 at the age of 7 (G.
Last week, The Crookston Times published an article about my recent trip to Crookston with my parents and our search for more information about my great-grandfather, G. Oliver Riggs (here's the blog entry I wrote about the article). The day the article ran, I received emails from two men who had read the story and had information to share.
One man had played in the high school band under G. Oliver's successor in Crookston, T.W. Thorson, and has a band program from a 1906 concert where G. Oliver was the director and his wife, Islea, was the accompanist. He's going to look for it in his files and send it to me.
The other man is the grandson of Harry H. Chesterman, who moved to Crookston with his parents in 1892 at the age of 7 (G.