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Since publication of Thom Tammaro’s new book of poems, Aurora, by North Dakota State University Press, I have been present at two venues whe...
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Plains Folk
Plains Folk is a commentary devoted to life on the great plains of North Dakota. Written by Tom Isern of West Fargo, North Dakota, and read in newspapers across the region for years, Plains...
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Listen to Plains Folk, a Government & Organizations podcast by Prairie Public Broadcasting. Stream 23 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 23 episodesUnfinished Business
Two conferences of regional scholars, one in Lincoln, Nebraska, the other in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, have taken the future of the Great P...
Lilac Days
Finally I found it, this song people were telling me about; found it in the Alfred G. Arvold Collection of the Institute for Regional Studie...
New Life Will Arise
There is this group of people that gathers now and then in a converted gas station in Rapid City for what they call the Morning Fill Up. The...
The Hungry Bachelor
Christmas Eve, 2015, on the Montana Hi-Line, somewhere near Glasgow, in a one-room school called Willow Bend. Miss Miller had prepared her p...
Wisdom from the Warden
Early in his new memoir from North Dakota State University Press, Tough but Fair: Reformation of a Prison, Memoir of a Warden, Winston Satra...
When Our Fields of Flax Are Blooming
If you are familiar with the face or name of Henry R. Martinson, it is likely because of the classic documentary film of 1978, Northern Ligh...
Charlie and Cedric
Exploring the sandhills countryside in search of something, I stepped into a white frame Lutheran church along the road and found, on a tabl...
The Spelling Bee Craze
In Dakota Territory, the outbreak of spelling bees in the late 1880s was commonly referred to as a “craze.” Since publication of The Hoosier...
An American Spectacle
“The spelling bee at the Baptist church Tuesday evening was quite a lively entertainment,” so says a press report from Jamestown in April 18...
Fish Fries
In a lovely book of 2008, America Eats, author Pat Willard puts fish fries into her subtitle, but hardly mentions them in her book-length di...
The Knights of Leisure
In Bottineau during the late 1880s, there emerged an association of men “on the ragged edge of civilization,” as one of them said, in a boom...
Layers of Memory
After spending a couple of days reading the Pioneer Mother narratives written by members of the Gardar Homemakers Club, all descendants of I...
Horseback, Trains, Boats, and Wagons
Trans-Atlantic immigration to America in the nineteenth century was truly a daunting decision, a severe test of body, spirit, and resolve. I...
Pie Melons
Since I spend a ridiculous amount of time reflecting on the character of regional identity, as an intellectual obsession, but also think a l...
Venison Chislic
It’s the best week of the year for our two dogs when I’m breaking down quarters of venison in the kitchen. It’s good for their keepers, too,...
On Their Terms and in Their Words
Echoes of the Old Country: Growing Up German-Russian on the Northern Plains, by Jessica Clark, is a landmark work in German-Russian history...
Frozen Charlotte
A dangerous storm has swept in today, a harsh coda to a two-day chinook that caused us to let our guard down. It puts me in mind of a favori...
Unto the Least of These
This short item from the Fargo Forum of 11 December 1916: “The towns of the state seem to have taken up well with the community Christmas pa...
Terroir in Grassy Places
“Terroir” is a term deployed by wine enthusiasts often with more mystique than precision. There is a sort of magic by which the environmenta...
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