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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...
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...
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...
Early in his new memoir from North Dakota State University Press, Tough but Fair: Reformation of a Prison, Memoir of a Warden, Winston Satra...
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...
Exploring the sandhills countryside in search of something, I stepped into a white frame Lutheran church along the road and found, on a tabl...
In Dakota Territory, the outbreak of spelling bees in the late 1880s was commonly referred to as a “craze.” Since publication of The Hoosier...
“The spelling bee at the Baptist church Tuesday evening was quite a lively entertainment,” so says a press report from Jamestown in April 18...
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...
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...
After spending a couple of days reading the Pioneer Mother narratives written by members of the Gardar Homemakers Club, all descendants of I...
Trans-Atlantic immigration to America in the nineteenth century was truly a daunting decision, a severe test of body, spirit, and resolve. I...
Since I spend a ridiculous amount of time reflecting on the character of regional identity, as an intellectual obsession, but also think a l...
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,...
Echoes of the Old Country: Growing Up German-Russian on the Northern Plains, by Jessica Clark, is a landmark work in German-Russian history...
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...
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” is a term deployed by wine enthusiasts often with more mystique than precision. There is a sort of magic by which the environmenta...
It was a lovely spring morning when we arrived early for Sunday services at Bethany Church, in Tanunda, South Australia, in the heart of the...
In a meeting on campus a few days ago, along with many of the best and brightest at NDSU, interviewing a candidate for a high position in th...
I cannot recall a conversation with Brother Placid Gross that was not a delight. He is, foremost, a man of faith who made his final professi...