Alyssa Boge

8/30/2010: December 7 will be forever etched into the American story as the day that will live in infamy. While it was a tragic day, for many Japanese Americans, another tragedy was yet to come.

8/20/2010: A 1911 postcard carried this message, "This is how the storm looked [as it] passed over Antler ... wrecked a barn and killed one man 1 ½ miles from where I am working. Am doing quite well...Anton."

8/9/2010: Ending WWII, nuclear bombs exploded in mushroom clouds and destroyed thousands of lives at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now, a new threat hovered on the horizon: nuclear war.

8/8/2010: On this date in 1972, the Devils Lake Journal reported on an international biking adventure by two boys.

8/5/2010: Tucked in a plastic sleeve among many other objects and many other shelves in the State Historical Society of North Dakota museum lower-level, is a piece of sheet music. Entitled "Our Fighting Chaplain," the music was written and played by the 116th Engineers Band. The band was no ordinary band and the chaplain, no ordinary chaplain.

8/2/2010: On this date in 1932, Ann Marie Low spent the evening picking chokecherries. She watched the ducks along the river and the changing colors of the hills and fields, calling it her country. By the end of the decade though, the farm where she grew up would no longer feel like home.

7/28/2010: Some stereotype North Dakota as a flat and treeless state. To contradict such ideas, one has only to point to the badlands in the west and to tree-lined rivers and the tree-covered hills of the northern border. Still there is certainly a unique type of terrain that crosses North Dakota: the grasslands.

7/27/2010: People in North Dakota, even today, often do not feel the need to lock their doors. While some feel protected by low crime rates, others buy security systems to protect their homes. Some simply put out a "Beware of Dog" sign whether or not they actually have a dog. Mrs. Guilford didn't have a sign, but as reported on this date in 1887, she was certainly very glad that she did indeed have a dog.