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The Night the Blizzard Brought the Town Together
Near Minot, North Dakota – January 17, 1938
A three-day blizzard buried the town under six feet of snow. Power lines were down, roads closed, and the hospital was running low on coal.
At midnight the radio station went on the air and asked every household to light a lantern in their window so the town could see it was still alive. Within an hour the entire town glowed like a constellation.
Neighbors started shoveling tunnels between houses, sharing food and fuel. The hospital got coal from the high-school furnace. By morning the storm broke, and the lanterns were still burning.
They call it “the night the town lit its own way home.” Every January 17 the town still puts a single candle in every window at dusk.
 

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