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Grand Forks, N. Olive Garden. It went viral on the poor woman JEK Senior Insider. MIke R Senior Insider. BTW- there are no Italians in Fargo. Is that your friend in the chipper? Never expires for murder. Grey Senior Insider. Mike R said:. Click to expand Chip THIS! Others stumble into it as they are rushing off to bridge club. My year-old mom, Marilyn Hagerty, a newspaper columnist, is in the latter category. She didn't worry about how her story would play on Gawker, partly because she had never heard of Gawker.
She's too busy to bother with blogs, Facebook or Twitter. She writes five articles a week for the Grand Forks Herald. Her specialties include local personalities, history and, yes, restaurants of high and low repute. Those whom she dubs in her column as "cheerful person of the week" consider it a high honor. She also cleans and maintains her house, cares for an unreliable dachshund, visits her eight grandchildren and volunteers at church.
Others, including media and news websites Gawker and Huffington Post, chimed in. Soon news hounds from Minneapolis, New York and even Fargo were calling Mom and demanding interviews. Basically, they wanted to know whether she was for real and how she felt about being mocked all over the Internet. But she didn't care to scroll through the thousands of Twitter and Facebook comments on her writing style.
Her poise under fire endeared her to people who do read all that. Strangers started sending me emails about how much they loved my mom. Her phone line was tied up, so I emailed her: "You've gone viral! I remember a time when she and my father were posing for a portrait. The photographer asked Dad to raise his chin a bit. After 65 years of writing and editing for newspapers in both of the Dakotas, she didn't need to worry about leaving a mark on the world.
