1.All Hell Broke Loose: The Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940. William H. Hull 1985 2. Looking For Candles In the Window The Red River Blizzard of March 15, 1941. Douglas Ramsey and Larry Skroch 1992 3. Almost Saved But Lost. The January 7-10 1873 Blizzard. Carolyn Mankell Sowinski 2017 4. The Relentless Blizzard of March 1966 .The March 2-5 1966 Blizzard. Douglas Ramsey and Larry Skroch 2004 5. The Children’s Blizzard. The January 12 -13 1888 Blizzard. David Laskin 2004 6. Sixteen Hours Behind the White Wall, Fargo-Moorhead Blizzard of February 4, 1984 and the PBS Video 47:58 on YouTube 7. Between the Cattails and the Bullrushes. Gordon F. Ekberg 1984 Pages 18-20. Account of the 1940 Armistice Day Blizzard.
Date: November 08, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: At the Museum or by Zoom.
Genealogy Saturday
Our topic will be recalling the Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940. You may have heard your parents or grandparents talk about it. It was a deadly storm that moved through Kansas all the way to Michigan. Here is a link to a Wikipedia page about the Blizzard. Don McCollor compiled a list of books that give more local experiences and that is under More Information.