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A Windrow in the Road
On this date 20 years ago, the management of the Falkirk coal mine decided they needed better roads. Unfortunately, the road improvement project led to the death of an employee. Things began smoothly enough. The mine hired a contractor to haul in sand and gravel. They instructed the contractor to dump the 27 tons of […]
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“Come Hell and High Water” Documentary ~ Chef Rosey on Potatoes
Thursday, August 17 – Last November we heard about an ambitious project to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 1997 flood in Ada, Minnesota. Ada-Borup band director Richard Tuttle had commissioned Karl Swenson, a talented 14-year-old from Kindred to compose the music for the project. They join us with an update, and are happy to […]
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First to Leave
While newspapers across the state heralded the announcement that American soldiers were now poised to enter the war, they also carried grim reminders that North Dakotans who had joined the Canadian Armed Forces early on were already fighting and dying in the trenches in France. For the most part, the units of the North Dakota […]
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Wednesday, August 16 – After a year of giving out monthly grants of $1,000, we get an update on the Awesome Foundation and the Cass Clay chapter from Brandi Malarky. We’ll hear about interesting efforts they’ve funded, how people anywhere can apply for grants, and how you can start an Awesome Foundation in your community. […]
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Telegraph Strike
On this date in 1907, the country faced a communication crisis. The telegraphers working for Western Union and for the Postal Telegraph Company had gone out on strike. Since 1900, telegraphers had worked to organize. In 1903, several of those organizations came together to form the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America. There were approximately 8,000 […]
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Poet Twinkle Zaman ~ Adoption Revolution
Tuesday, August 15 – Life stages often get lumped into a ten-year spread. Your eighties, fifties, twenties. Twinkle Zaman is a twentysomething. She spends a lot of time thinking and writing about what that means. In fact, Twentysomething is the name of her latest poetry book. She reflects on love and friendships, and being in that phase of life where you’re not […]
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Labor Shortage
War news from Europe was somewhat grim in August of 1917, as the mobilization of troops in the United States was rapidly approaching. French initiatives in the Alsace- Loraine region, at first meeting with some success, were now being repulsed by German advances. Many sections of the line were deteriorating into trench warfare. At […]
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Bocas de Ceniza
It may seem strange that an art piece exhibiting the struggle of Colombians was first shown in North Dakota, but in the summer of 2005 this was the case. The people of Colombia live a life that many of us could not imagine. A brutal civil war between guerilla forces and the military has ravaged […]
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Julien Monnet, North Dakota Tennis Champion, 1904
Summer for some includes tennis. The ‘thwwwwack’ of a racket has echoed in North Dakota since the mid-1880s, when ‘lawn tennis’ infiltrated the region. Grand Forks organized its tennis club in 1885, and by the first decade of the 1900s North Dakota had established state championships for individuals and doubles. On this date, in 1904, […]
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The North Dakota Children’s Home Society
In the late 1800s, the New York Children’s Aid Society routinely rounded up homeless children and sent them west on trains that came to be known as the orphan trains. The children were usually placed with farmers. Sometimes they found good homes where they were loved, but sometimes they were considered free labor and subject […]
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Empire Builder Train Wreck
The worst rail disaster in North Dakota history happened at 7:20 p.m. on this date in 1945 in the town of Michigan, about 50 miles west of Grand Forks. Two Empire Builder trains were traveling west as a pair. The first section contained the Pullman sleeper cars and the second carried coach cars. […]
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The Atomic Bomb Project
Americans live in the dark shadow of nuclear weapons; developed during World War II for fear that Nazi Germany might get atomic bombs first. The idea of unleashing subatomic forces came from famous nuclear physicists, including Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi. When the U.S. decided to split uranium atoms and make bombs to win the […]
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Papelpu’s Odyssey
When Alexander Papelpu obtained his homestead patent in Stark County on June 26, 1914 his future looked bright and promising. Having received his citizenship only six months before, he now decided it was time to return to his home country of Russia. Here he would take care of some business affairs and wed his sweetheart […]
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Hobo Baseball Game
In 1897 it seems that bums and hobos might have been known for more than just hopping trains and sleeping under bridges, at least in Grand Forks! On this date in 1897, the Grand Forks Daily Herald reported that a group of hobos took on the local Grand Forks baseball team, stating “a unique game […]
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Rodeo Champ Duane Howard
Duane Howard was born in Devils Lake on this date in 1933. He married his childhood sweetheart, Orpha Hanson in 1956. They made their home on the Howard Ranch in Minnewaukan until the rising waters of Devils Lake forced the couple to relocate to Sheyenne, North Dakota. Howard was an all-around cowboy, competing at the […]
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A Sailor from Rolla and Kamikazes from Japan, 1945
There was a sailor from Rolla named George Raasakka who served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during World War II. It was on this date in 1943 that the Navy launched the Callaghan, a brand-new destroyer, near Long Beach, California. George Raasakka became a coxswain on the Callaghan, helping steer the ship in […]
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The Story of Elbowoods
For sixty years, Elbowoods, North Dakota was a hub along the Missouri River on the Fort Berthold Reservation. The town was located on a bend in the river and in the wooded bottoms, hence its name. The townsite started to develop in 1889, and on this date in 1893, its post office was established. Elbowoods […]
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Tire Blowouts And Tire Rationing in Bismarck, 1942
The shock of exploding bombs on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941 brought the U.S. into the conflagrations of World War II. The subsequent fall of Asia’s rubber plantations “cut America’s rubber lifeline and brought the word’s most motorized nation face-to-face with catastrophe as its rubber reserve dwindled.” The U.S. crude rubber supply for civilians had […]
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Bismarck Accuses Fargo Over National Guard Support
Ever since the American Revolution, our country has relied on the citizen soldier. This reliance continues today with the National Guard. National Guardsmen have to leave their families and their jobs to respond to natural disasters and national security needs. According to the United States Department, the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act was […]
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Kate Richards O’Hare
On this date in 1917, the news from the front … once again … was grim. With the collapse of the Russian Army and the capture of their artillery due to a quick German advance, conditions on the Eastern Front were in disarray. Col. Frank White, now in command of the newly formed 2nd Regiment […]