Notes from Jamestown,
 North Dakota,
Hometown of
Miss Peggy Lee

It has astounded me how uninformed many of Jamestown's current residents are about the incredible career of this singular singing legend born to a Midland Continental Railroad family in the southeast part of Jamestown.

Thus I dedicate this collection of Peggy Lee links to Norma Egstrom, a woman who left Jamestown as an abused and unloved stepdaughter, but who has never stopped acknowledging and giving honor to her NoDak roots.

Recommended Links to Websites and Organizations honoring Miss Peggy Lee:

• Peggy Lee Website -- this is by far the most comprehensive site on the life and work of Miss Lee including quotations and testimonials from a variety of sources. It is from this source that virtually all the other links have come. Wonderful-Lee executed!
• Peggy Lee's Confirmation Photo -- See Norma Egstrom in the St. John's Lutheran Church confirmation class of 1934.
• Mrs. Dave Barbour -- this photo is taken from a Fargo Forum clipping from the mid 1940's saved by Lillian (Lawson) Wehler's mother. Lillian was a schoolmate of Norma's at Wimbledon High School.  If you look closely, you will see that Lil's mother wrote "Norma Egstrom" in pencil on the clipping so she would know who Mrs. Dave Barbour used to be.
• Some friends and I performed a Tribute to Peggy Lee at the Jamestown Arts Center in May 1998 in preparation for Miss Lee's 78th birthday.  It was in preparing for that show that my admiration for Peggy Lee's work and career began.