A Night to REMEMBER
Jun 26, 2020
3 minutes
By Clyde Eide
“The fire's deep inside. We'll have to upset the straw pile to get at it,” the Harvard chief said. “Get two big tractors. We'll pull a cable through it.”
NOT unlike the start of a dime store novel, it really was a dark and stormy night. Threshing was just over, and three mountainous straw piles were behind the big barn. The grain harvest was bountiful that year, during the late 1930s.
It was hard to sleep that night, because of the thunder and lightning. Suddenly, an extremely
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