The story of a North Dakota man who survived one of WWII's darkest days and months in a POW camp
Release Date: 10/15/2023
Pass the superhero cape, I want to be an archivist
Back Then with Tracy Briggs
As one local archivist retires, I take a look at just how important historians are to our community. See more from Tracy Briggs on our website: https://www.inforum.com/tracy-briggs
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This Valentine's Day, local couples prove that love can be found in the quirkiest ways
Back Then with Tracy Briggs
Area couples detail the ways they met their significant others, from Captain America to MTV to a squirt gun. See more from Tracy Briggs on our website: https://www.inforum.com/tracy-briggs
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How Muhammad Ali once knocked out by a North Dakota blizzard
Back Then with Tracy Briggs
Opponents couldn’t always clobber "The Greatest" of all time, but 55 years ago, a Fargo snowbank did. See this and the rest of Tracy Briggs' Back Then stories on our website: https://www.inforum.com/tracy-briggs
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'With age comes wisdom.' An embarrassingly easy dish for potlucks
Back Then with Tracy Briggs
Columnist Tracy Briggs trades laborious dishes to making easy inspired-by-her-sweet-tooth desserts for gatherings. Lazy? You decide. See more from Tracy Briggs here:
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Golf outing in Bismarck launched Minnesota singer to fame in 'Lawrence Welk Show'
Back Then with Tracy Briggs
Tom Netherton starred in the hit television show in the '70s, became a popular Christian performer in the '80s, and made national headlines with Kathie Lee Gifford in the '90s. Visit our website to see photos and read more stories from Tracy Briggs:
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A second serving of King Leo's 🍔
Back Then with Tracy Briggs
After Tracy Briggs' column on the popular hamburger joint that operated in Fargo from 1961 to 1979, her inbox was flooded with comments and stories, including priceless ones from "Prince Leo." Read Tracy's original column, along with the rest of her work, at
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Long live King Leo's!
Back Then with Tracy Briggs
Even with 15 cent burgers and 12 cent fries, Fargo fast food pioneer King Leo's raked in the cash in the '60s and '70s thanks to a loyal fanbase and a fun-loving crew.
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During a month of tragic headlines, Fargo's skating nuns put a smile on everyone's faces
Back Then with Tracy Briggs
News readers might just have been craving some good news. Perhaps that’s why Forum journalist Cal Olson grabbed his photo gear and set out to snap a few pics that would undoubtedly put a smile on people’s faces. He found himself at the Presentation Sisters Convent at 1310 Broadway in Fargo to take a few shots of the sisters on ice. According to Olson’s story on Jan. 22, 1956, “each afternoon for the past several weeks, between 30 and 35 of the nuns have been skating for an hour or so, whirling around the ice on a small rink behind the convent.”
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A life at Le Mans that started on the prairies of North Dakota
Back Then with Tracy Briggs
The story of how Bob Blake became a world-renowned builder of race cars for Jaguar while holding onto his Midwestern personality.
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My dad played Santa. My kids were his toughest audience
Back Then with Tracy Briggs
Around this time every year, my hospital administrator dad would put away his suit and tie and put on the Santa gear, with very mixed results.
info_outlineOct. 14, 1943, became known as 'Black Thursday' with devastating losses at the hands of the Nazis. Arthur Linrud of Velva, North Dakota, survived. Today his family seeks to remember those who didn’t.