In this article Marvin Miller shares several remembrances of his early work life in Dakota County in the 1940s and 1950s. They are shared to show how times have changed.
Blyburg
Blyburg is by the hills of Homer, past the O’Connor house. My maternal family, O’Dell, were from there. About 1944 when I was in high school, my uncles Walt and Hank Laird got me a job working for a rich and large land owner named Boyle. The son’s name was Tiny Boyle. Indians were hired to how corn, and my job was to watch them and keep them working. It was rather scary, as they would talk Indian language. I got to sleep and eat in the house. The indians ate outside and slept in the barn.
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