Ninety years ago today, May 12th, 1935, was Mother’s Day, and the first Sunday since the Minnesota colonists’ arrival in Palmer. Reverend Bert Bingle, recently of Cordova, currently living in a tent in Jim Felton’s field, led a church service in the architect’s office tent.
Bingle wrote, “It being Mother’s Day the theme was touching as those Mothers had left their own dear mothers a few thousand miles behind and many were never to see them again. Our prayer was that we would be true to them and come up to their expectation of us.”
“First church services led in the Colony, 11 a.m. May 12, 1935, Mother’s Day. B.J. Bingle (standing)”
Photo from the official ARRC album, Mary Nan Gamble collection, Alaska State Library
