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If you haven’t seen some shaggy mane mushrooms (Coprinus comatus) growing near your home lately, they probably will be soon. They are often seen popping up after a good rain in grassy areas such as parks, lawns, and the like during late summer and into fall, although they may grow at other times. They are one of North Dakota’s more common and interesting mushrooms.

One of the great promoters of western settlement in mid-nineteenth century was William Gilpin of Missouri — military officer, western explorer, first territorial governor of Colorado. In 1857 Gilpin was distressed about the still-prevailing notion that the country east of the Rockies was a Great American Desert.

Friday, September 9, 2022 - Alicia Hegland-Thorpe stopped by the UTTC Tribal Leaders Summit & Trade Show. We’ll be sharing a number of interviews from her visit, and we start today with a conversation about the North Dakota Native Tourism Alliance as Alicia visits with Tamara St John, historian for the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, NDNTA board member and South Dakota legislator; and Les Thomas, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians tourism consultant and vice president of the NDNTA. ~~~ Chuck Lura shares a Natural North Dakota essay about the shaggy mane mushroom. ~~~ Dave Thompson is here for a discussion of the latest headlines. ~~~ Matt Olien reviews “The Invitation.”

Monday, September 12, 2022 - Chairman Mark Fox of the Three Affiliated Tribes visits with Alicia Hegland-Thorpe at the UTTC Tribal Leaders Summit. Chairman Fox is a new inductee into the North Dakota Native American Hall of Honor. ~~~ BirdNote has been a regular feature on Prairie Public, and we occasionally include it during Main Street. To learn more about this educational feature, we visit with Executive Director Nick Bayard.

The Wurst Shop in Dickinson offers choice cuts of beef, pork, elk, and buffalo — plus, seafood selections, and all kinds of cheeses. The shop also carries many other North Dakota food products. Host Tom Brosseau visited The Wurst Shop to talk with owner Ken Molitor about the shop and its patrons, head cheese and liver sausage, and the old-fashioned way of preparing these food items.

Tom Brosseau talks with Madge Dows and Cindy Workman, who are part of the Page Café Association. Listen to their conversation as Tom tries a made-from-scratch apple pie — made with apples from a nearby orchard, and topped with a slice of American cheese.

Tom Brosseau visits the Let's Eat Cafe in New Leipzig, North Dakota, and visits with the café owners, Marissa and Phil Sprenger.

Tom visits Due North GF Bakery in Hatton, North Dakota — A bakery with a gluten-free menu of pies, cakes, pastries, and more.

Wednesday, September 14, 2022 - Air travel has become quite a challenge on occasion. Like many businesses, the airlines have struggled with staffing shortages that have led to canceled flights and even the closing of some regional airports. Meanwhile, one way to speed up your experience at the airport is to sign up for TSA Precheck. Here to talk air travel is Shawn Dobberstein, executive director of the airport in Fargo. ~~~ After 15 years of living in China, Michael Standaert, a journalist, and author, returns to the US as an enterprise Journalist for the North Dakota News Cooperative. Alicia Hegland-Thorpe visits with Michael about his travels abroad and what it means to be an enterprise journalist.

Standing a few miles east of Richardton, North Dakota, is a modest conical hill with a lot of history. It’s called Young Man’s Butte. Several legends exist to the origin of the name. One of the most plausible came from Rain-in-the-Face, a Lakota Sioux, born near the Cheyenne River in present day South Dakota in 1835.