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Anyone remember this?
I thought this was a really well-done and timely article written a couple yrs ago... I don't why but I found it fascinating. A woman without much means, in her late-middle age years, goes to great lengths to find a job that seems like not much, but it tells a lot about how bad things were where she was from. It was courageous of her to jump into the unknown and do what she had to do to survive. Anyone know if there's ever been a follow-up to this article? Just wondering how Ms. Morgan is doing.
I remember this. I googled, and the only thing were 100's of stories from different publications for the exact story from the Washington post. I did google "address" and she is still listed. However, it says Hannaford, ND (which is close to Glenfield)..so it could be a matter of Post office vs. the actual town...but this address might be an old one, so doesn't necessarily mean she is still in ND??. It would be interesting to see if she survived the last 2 years in North Dakota. But, yes, it did make for a good story.
Yeah.. I already searched, found nothin'. Was just wondering if any local news sources did a follow-up, (or perhaps the original author)... Sure would be interesting to hear what happened afterwards.. if she's glad she did it, or if she loves it there & considers it home now, still has her job, or regrets it, if she moved again, etc...!
I enjoyed the article. However, I couldn't understand why she thought doing a 300 mile round-trip per day commute would end up being less expensive than owning an apartment. It seems like a huge amount of trouble and the cost of gasoline day in and day out would be prohibitive. I would assume she eventually found a job in Glenfield.
bhaal- I wondered the same thing! I think the point of that was she was so desperate that she took what she could get... and that was literally, all she could get. It must be that the cheapest home she would find was really that far from Bismarck. It seemed like a life of hardship to me (rising at 4:30, 300 round trip drive, home after dark)... I wonder if things ever got any easier for her? Stories like that also make me thing about how we ended up such a fractured society.... family members scattered all over the country and everyone is on their own, instead of sticking together and pooling your resources. And when family members need help, why is everyone so isolated? It's such a strange world we live in now.
Holy WOW this woman has some guts! Really does conjure up visions of the gutsy homesteaders over a hundred years ago. I would really enjoy a follow up story - I hope to heck she made it through the first winter, got a newer car and a job closer to home! But WOW, she has guts, I admire her for having the nerve to at the very least, try what she tried. I think 'hay barrel' is a typo or possibly the author of the article misunderstood someone when the said "hay bale", no one, and I mean no one I know refers to them as "hay barrels" and I've lived in ND my entire life and have "hay bales in our barn and fields............unless it's a regional term used in that part of the state?
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