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Historian Frank Varney ~ "Think and Drink" ~ StoryCorps ~

Wednesday, January 23 – Frank Varney, Civil War author and associate professor of history at Dickinson State will appear this Saturday at the Barnes and Noble in Bismarck’s  Southridge Centre. Varney is the author of "General Grant and the Rewriting of History." It’s a telling re-examination of Grant’s critical treatment of Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans. ~~~ North Dakota Humanities has an invitation for you: “We’ve all had deep discussions with our friends while we’re out at night—why not add a couple of experts to the mix and really take it up a notch?” Here to explain the Think & Drink happy-hour series is Humanities ND program officer Kayla Schmidt. ~~~ callings work in mysterious ways. Karen Van Fossan is a minister at the Unitarian Universalist church in Bismarck. She visited the StoryCorps mobile recording booth this past summer with best friend Peter Huff. In this excerpt, we learn how the protests to the Dakota Access Pipeline, shaped her ministry.