Among early Hannaford characters was a man who came to our town to spend his summer vacations. He was known as Professor Lane, but it was not generally known with which institution of high learning he was connected. Most of his relaxing was done along Bald Hill Creek at the end of a fishing pole, sometime in company with one of his good friends, Ole Nordeng, Jake Jacobson or Christ Foss.
Today's old timers who were kids in the early 1920s, will remember him fondly. One day every summer he gave a watermelon feed for all the girls and boys in town. Sometimes the great event was held in Groven Hall and sometimes in the open. As long as the supply lasted, happy kids stood around barrels enjoying those special moments of joyous indulgence, spitting seeds and tossing rinds into the barrels.
A summertime institution of those early days, Prof. Lane has long been fondly remembered.
Source: Hannaford Area History North Dakota Centennial 1889 - 1989 Page 255