So Minnesota: Princeton Boys

It’s an previous movie that went unseen for many years and was almost misplaced.

The movie from 1951 referred to as Princeton Boys captures members of the Minnesota Nationwide Guard heading off to fundamental coaching and the Korean Conflict.

The movie was mailed to Barry Schreiber at Millie Lacs County Historic Society in Princeton, who had the movie developed.

“I felt the load of historic accountability to do one thing with this,” Schreiber stated. “It’s only a fabulous window on Minnesota life and American life on the time. It was 70 years previous and didn’t have way more shelf life left. I knew if we didn’t do one thing quickly and we put it on a shelf, and it wasn’t sorted till 10 or 20 years from now it could have been misplaced.”

On that day, a whole bunch on the town got here out to ship off the Princeton Boys with a parade. They wished them properly on the depot. 

Earlier than leaving, the proprietor of the Strand Film Theater in Princeton gave a guard member a digicam and rolls of movie to seize the group leaving and going by way of fundamental coaching at Camp Rucker in Alabama. The movie gives a beautiful window into on a regular basis life in fundamental coaching from work to play and serves as a time capsule of our previous. 

“It was a time machine,” Schreiber stated. “It was being transported again to small city America on an important day.”