{"id":276,"date":"2007-11-08T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=276"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:10:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:10:57","slug":"4hers-take-over-moorhead-minnesota-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/4hers-take-over-moorhead-minnesota-1961.html","title":{"rendered":"4Hers Take Over Moorhead, Minnesota: 1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/1960s_4H_Parade%2C_Moorhead%2C_MN\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/c\/c1\/Oak_Mound_Float_-_Join_Now_For_62_-_Front.jpg\/600px-Oak_Mound_Float_-_Join_Now_For_62_-_Front.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In the summer of 1961, 4H-ers from all over Clay County, Minnesota, converged on Moorhead for a parade and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extension.umn.edu\/county\/template\/index.aspx?pID=1&amp;countyID=14\">Round-Up<\/a>.  Not exactly the County Fair (that&#8217;s held in Barnesville), it was a chance for local farm kids to head into the big city and show off their skills.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/1960s_4H_Parade%2C_Moorhead%2C_MN\">These photos<\/a> were taken along Center Avenue, standing in front of what&#8217;s now a vacant car dealership just east of 9th Avenue.   The photos focus on the floats &#8212; sadly, very backlit &#8212; but there&#8217;s a few photos from the Round-Up.  I do not know the photographer; the focus given to the Oak Mount float would lead me to believe that the family is from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Kragnes%2C_Minnesota\"> Kragnes,<\/a> a few miles up the road from Moorhead (although in the past 50 years Moorhead has encroached close to Kragnes&#8217; borders; if I were a mall developer, that&#8217;s where I&#8217;d buy land).   My dad was in 4H a few years later.  At 6 years old he was still a bit young for this parade; these kids would be in their 60s today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-1525415555875349264?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 1961, 4H-ers from all over Clay County, Minnesota, converged on Moorhead for a parade and a Round-Up. Not exactly the County Fair (that&#8217;s held in Barnesville), it was a chance for local farm kids to head into the big city and show off their skills. These photos were taken along Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[300,506,298,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1327,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}