Mike Hanson

The West Fork of the Black River Literary Society is set to usher in 2024 and say farewell to 2023 when they meet the last week of December between the holidays to celebrate the inner poet elegy’s of the year passing and the adventure of the next 12 magic months to come.

This is a story about Emil and his cows.

As the news spread in 1905 that a dam for water power was to be built at Koochiching Falls land prices reacted in the area, particularly near streams capable of carrying logs to the Falls.

The Koochiching County area has a compiled history that is not of everyday conversation, most of which you don’t know.Did you know that there are Indian petroglyphs?

The charismatic emblem of the West Fork of the Black River Literary Society is the owl an icon known for staying up all night.

One hundred seventeen years ago Samuel Plummer had an idea and would no doubt surprise him today.

I thought it was time you met Arvid and Elsie Petterson; Arvid was born in Sweden in August of 1888 and left his homeland in 1910 with a stopover in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on his way to his destination, the Rainy River area.

The Baudette Fire of 1910 rampaged an area from Williams, Minn., to Clementson located at the northwest line of Koochiching.

In 1910 the Minnesota Legislature appropriated $21,000 of a $38,000 ask for forest protection; 26 forest rangers were placed on duty in June and laid off in September when the funding ran out.