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Thursday, August 12, 2021 - The third time’s the charm for comedian Paula Poundstone. After getting postponed twice due to the pandemic, she’ll be performing later this month in Fargo. Paula, who is also a frequent guest on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, visits with guest host Bill Thomas. ~~~ In an excerpt from Sunday’s Great American Folk Show, we hear from North Dakota vocalist Colleen Reinhardt. ~~~ Sue Balcom is here to discuss gardening for health.
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North Dakota is small and sparsely populated, but it has drawn a range of music acts over the years, some of them multiple times, with memorable shows. Some of those concerts have had attendance larger than some of North Dakota’s major cities.
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The Fargo newspaper headlines this week in 1957 concentrated on the devastating tornado that had leveled a large swath of the city only days before. An…
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In June of 1915 Fargo, North Dakota seemed a well-run modern small city. A trip through the pages of the Daily Fargo Forum newspaper reveals Fargo to be…
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This week in 1910, the Fargo Forum and Daily Republican newspaper revealed an interesting potpourri of life in the Red River Valley. At the Fargo Opera…
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War weary Americans in the 1940s here in the heartland were like the rest of the nation in the habit of following not only the WWII overseas battles, but…
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John Eldridge Haggart, Fargo’s first Town Marshal, was born on this date in 1846. Haggart was born in St. Lawrence County, New York. He fought as a Union…
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The flu pandemic a century ago lasted beyond 1918. It lingered into 1920 and sent parts of North Dakota back into lockdown. North Dakota’s state health…
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The Mayor of Fargo has signed an executive order that will limit occupancy in bars and restaurants.Tim Mahoney’s order mandates that bars and restaurants…
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On this date in 1943, Earl Charles Reineke married Jane Marie Early. He was a broadcaster, and she was a dancer and professional model. Before his death,…