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Friday, June 24, 2022
Volume 1, Number 24
Annual Museum Breakfast Feeds Hundreds By Borderland Press Staff
The Cavalier County Museum in Dresden held its annual Father’s Day breakfast over the weekend, which is one of the larger fundraisers for the organization that operates the museum. “It’s basically set up like how people lived 100, 150 years ago. We have a log cabin, a one-room schoolhouse, a stone church, and we’re moving in a barn. That process is a little slow right now with everything the way it is. It’s just a real neat experience,” said Jay DuBois, treasurer for the museum. He said the site continues to draw crowds for those wanting to learn more about the history of the county and also early life on the Great Plains. The breakfast event usually has a good turnout and served about 550 people this year.
Josie Flaaen and Danny Muhs handle griddle duties during the breakfast. BP Photo.
Stacy DuBois, Sue Bata, Paul Boesl serve food to hundreds of attendees. BP Photo.
Jake Muhs and Chase Heck, part of the crew cooking up 100+ pounds of Langdon Locker sausage. BP Photo
years, that’s where the money goes. DuBois gave a special thank you to the museum board and all of the volunteers, saying the day wouldn’t have been possible without them. It takes more than 20 volunteers on the day
of the event and even more help prior to the event.
The Cavalier County Museum is located northwest of Langdon in Dresden. The next big fundraising event will be a picnic held over Labor Day weekend.
“I was thrilled. It was down a little bit from last year,” DuBois said. Temperatures topped 97 degrees with a “feels like” temperature of 103.6, according to the thermometer at the property. “I don’t mind telling you that I was concerned that the heat would keep the crowd away, but it didn’t seem to affect it,” DuBois said. “We went through about half as much coffee as usual for some odd reason.” DuBois said the museum appreciates any donations, which pays for the upkeep of the buildings, and in this case, the money that they’ve been raising over the years is going to help pay for the barn to be moved in. They’re expecting that project to be $100,000 by the time they’re done, so all these breakfasts that you donate to over the
Regular hours of operation for the museum are 1-5 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.
Meet the Langdons - Exactly 30 Years Later By Hilary Nowatzki
noticed a sign for a town called Langdon. They both took interest in this town for a special reason. Patty and Larry both bore the last name Langdon, even before they wed. Little did
Their first visit was in 1991 on their way to Spokane. The couple stated, “The day we got there, the city had just welcomed home troops that returned from Operation Desert Storm. There must have been a parade, because there was confetti everywhere and a banner across the road that said ‘Langdon Welcomes You’.” Their second trip was after the couple got engaged in March of 1992, and while planning a trip to Glacier National Park, they knew there would be another opportunity to visit the town which bears their namesake. “Why don’t we get married in Langdon?” Larry suggested. Patty said, “I had the trip more or less mapped out with our dates. We hoped to get married by a judge in Langdon. So I called the court, and the judge himself answered the phone. It turned out that the day after we would arrive in Langdon was the day the judge was in town. The reason we decided to get married in Langdon was because we thought it would be cool to have a marriage certificate saying Langdon, North Dakota, on it.” The date was to be June 23, 1992. That is, until Bob Simmons hunted them down.
Patricia, or Patty, and Larry had been dating for a few years while living in Rochester, N.Y., when they planned a trip to visit Larry’s father in Spokane, Wash. Along their route on US 2, they
they know such a coincidence would cause them to become small town celebrities whose love story is still told three decades later.
The following story is written and recounted by Patty and Larry Langdon: “We stayed at the Main Street Motel. The next day, we got into our nice clothes, packed and checked out, as we were continuing our trip right after the wedding. We drove toward the flower shop. At the first cross road, we saw a man in a suit running up the middle of the street toward us, waving and shouting. So we pulled over.
He came up to the passenger window and said, “Are you the couple from NY getting married today?” We said yes, and he told us it was really difficult to find a white SUV from NY for some reason. Then he said, “How would you like to get married on the radio?” He said he was Bob Simmons, the DJ at the local radio station, KNDK. I agreed instantly, but Larry took some convincing. Bob said the station would pay for another night at the motel and all our meals. We actually had an extra day in our schedule! When we told him the judge was waiting, he said he would take care of that. He would also get us a minister. I asked how to get to the station, and he said he would have someone pick us up. The flower shop kept the flowers for another night. We didn’t feel right having the station pay for our meals. So we went to dinner at At The Hop intending to be anonymous, but the restaurant was playing KNDK, and there was an occasional announcement about a wedding taking place ON THE AIR the next morning at 10:00 a.m. Of course, we giggled about this. When we went to pay, Larry gave the cashier his credit card, the spot came on the radio, we giggled, and the cashier said, “Are you them?” She would not take our money and showed us a post-it note that said, “If a couple named Langdon comes in, don’t let them pay.” We had to check back into the Main Street Motel, and this time they gave us the largest corner room. The next morning, we got dressed up again. While I finished getting ready, Larry walked down to the flower shop to
get our corsages. They were complimentary, and we also received a wedding gift from them, a windsock commemorating Langdon’s 100th birthday from 1988. While Larry was gone, I got a knock on the door. The motel manager was there to tell me that our limo was there! I was so surprised it was a limo. The limo driver was Darrel R. Schrader. He was dressed in a tux. He told us he had purchased the limo to be able to drive high school students to their proms. On the limo ride, we heard steady updates on KNDK about our progress to the station. When we arrived, we saw someone taking video and someone else taking photos. We didn’t know it at the time, but the video was for the news channel in Grand Forks. They showed this on the news that night. The photos were being taken by Hans Reinhardt, who owned the photo store. I was handed a very large floral bouquet. This had been created from someone’s personal garden. We never found out who that was. Rev. Ewart and his wife, Lillie, were celebrating their 56th anniversary that same day, June 24, 1992. He performed the ceremony. Bob Simmons was also dressed in a tux. Rose Mularkey played some music on a portable keyboard. After the brief ceremony, Mayor Ken Wilhelmi presented us with a key to the city! This was followed by cake, champagne, and gifts from KNDK. The cake was provided by the local bakery. As gifts, we received a commemoracont’d. on page 14