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Wednesday, October 26, 2022 - Libraries are academic spaces. And in one professor’s imagination, a portal that protects us from cosmic evil. Brian Urlacher, Ph.D. chairs UND’s political science department by day and reads cosmic horror in his free time. He’s now joining the ranks of fiction writer with his new novella, The Library of Chester Fritz, a fictionalized story of how the library protects us from malicious cosmic forces. ~~~ Tribal colleges across North Dakota are boosting apprentice opportunities thanks to a recent $14 million donation. The funding comes from a trio of private energy companies. Alicia Hegland-Thorpe visits with Dr Cynthia Lindquist, president of Cankdeska Cikana Community College. ~~~ We share another profile from this year’s class of inductees into the North Dakota Native American Hall of Honor. Kevin Todd Finley was inducted for his work as basketball coach and athletic director at United Tribes Technical College.

Tuesday, October 25, 2022 - NDSU political science professor Nicholas Bauroth discusses the upcoming election in this excerpt from the Prairie Pulse television show with host John Harris. ~~~ Tom Isern has this week’s Plains Folk essay, “Sweet Betsy.” ~~~ Fintan Dooley is seeking election as agriculture commissioner. He visits with Matt Olien.

In early 1917, social news about the State Historical Society’s second librarian, Miss Georgia Carpenter, made the columns of the Bismarck Tribune. She was engaged to Charles Hageman of Bismarck. Charles was a travelling salesman for a Duluth hardware company. The two would be marrying in Randolph, New York, from where she hailed, although they planned to make their home in Bismarck.

Thursday, October 27, 2022 - Our candidate conversations continue with Cara Mund, who is seeking the House seat currently held by Kelly Armstrong. ~~~ Chuck Lura shares a Natural North Dakota about box elder bugs, Asian beetles and more. ~~~ Sue Balcom is here for Main Street Eats, with thoughts of Halloween.

Friday, October 21, 2022 - In another of our candidate conversations, we meet Rick Becker, independent candidate for US Senate. ~~~ Dave Thompson is here for this week’s news chat. ~~~ Matt Olien reviews “The Banshees of Inisherin,” a black comedy-drama written and directed by Martin McDonagh.

The federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay held several infamous convicts throughout its 29 years of operation, even a handful of prisoners with connections to North Dakota.

You may have read the Sherlock Holmes story, “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” about a demonic hound that terrorizes the heirs of a wealthy estate. Similarly, people throughout North Dakota in the fall of 1936 were gripped by reports from the Canadian border to Bismarck about an African lion.

In early 1917, social news about the State Historical Society’s second librarian, Miss Georgia Carpenter, made the columns of the Bismarck Tribune. She was engaged to Charles Hageman of Bismarck. Charles was a travelling salesman for a Duluth hardware company. The two would be marrying in Randolph, New York, from where she hailed, although they planned to make their home in Bismarck.

Today it is difficult to imagine what the invention of the telegraph meant to the development of the country. In the early 1800s it took weeks for messages to get from one side of the country to the other. The telegraph changed that. By 1860, the telegraph stretched as far west as St. Joseph, Missouri. The Pony Express took messages and mail from there to Sacramento, California in a record ten days. On this date in 1861, a telegraph message was sent from St. Louis to San Francisco, finally connecting the east coast with the west.

Monday, October 17, 2022 - Temple Grandin is an autism activist, scientist and New York Times bestselling author. She joins us to discuss her new book, “Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions.” ~~~ Can culture help address health concerns? Today we visit with Naomi Bender, Ph.D, a Quechua woman who directs the Native American Health Sciences and the new Center for Native American Health at Washington State University, Spokane. The MN native returns to the area to present “Culture as Medicine: Re-imagining Health Education to Address and Impact Health Inequity in Our Communities” at Concordia College.