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On this date in 1910, the pioneer town of Timmer established a Post Office. Located along the Northern Pacific railroad about twelve miles southeast of Flasher, the town was named after C. L. Timmerman, a Mandan banker, rancher and merchant.

Wednesday, July 20, 2022 - VA Medical Centers and clinics help identify innovative therapies, practices and policies. In this excerpt from the Conversations on Health Care podcast, we hear from Dr. Ryan Vega, who leads Innovation Ecosystem within the Veterans Health Administration. ~~~ Tom Isern bemoans this year’s poor Juneberry crop in this week’s Plains Folk essay titled “Lament for Juneberries.” ~~~ Keeping grocery stores going in rural communities can be a real challenge. From Minnesota Public Radio, we hear about an imaginative approach – a self service store. ~~~ There’s no shortage of kitchen gadgets, but one you can’t live without is a knife. For those who know their way around a kitchen a sharp knife is a must. Josh Edmonson is a chef at Fargo’s Mezzaluna and he also has a booth for knife sharpening at the Red River Farmers Market.

Friday, July 22, 2022 - A Lakota language and culture revitalization project is underway at a recording studio in Bismarck. Songs recorded more than a century ago are now being used to teach language and culture to Standing Rock Tribal members by re-recording them in a new and contemporary setting. Alicia Hegland-Thorpe has the story. ~~~ Native Americans have been growing food to feed their communities … and connect to their spirituality and cultures … for millennia. But colonization separated many Native Americans from their traditional foods. Now the idea of food sovereignty — or people having the right to control where and how they get food — is growing. And as Lauren Hines reports for Harvest Public Media… new formal programs to promote native foods are popping up across the Midwest. ~~~ Dave Thompson joins us for this week’s news chat. ~~~ Matt Olien reviews “The Black Phone.”

The new thriller stars Ethan Hawke.

Monday, July 25, 2022 - UND philosophy professor Jack Russell Weinstein joins us for Philosophical Currents, our monthly dive into the philosophy behind current topics. Today’s is a doozy … “What is a human right?”

I just came in from an inspection tour of the Prairie Garden, and the news is bad. The juneberry crop is not worth harvesting this year. Maybe it was the hard winter, maybe the late freeze, maybe the spring flood, or maybe the siroccos of early summer, but we have so few berries I am just leaving them for the birds.

If you like to watch meteor showers, the next few weeks could be a real treat. That is because the Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower has already begun, and the Perseids Meteor Shower will overlap with it.

Alex Larron was not a nice man. United States Marshall James F. Shea described him as “a mild looking cuss, but for all that he was a bad one.” During the early 1900s Larron and his gang of horse thieves operated mainly near the Canadian border along the Mouse River.

A Lakota language and culture revitalization project is underway at a recording studio in Bismarck. Songs recorded more than a century ago are now being used to teach language and culture to Standing Rock Tribal members by re-recording them in a new and contemporary setting. Alicia Hegland-Thorpe has the story.

Thursday, July 21, 2022 - Scotty Schlepp is kind of a renaissance man in Ashley, North Dakota. He renovated the loft of his barn into a playhouse and has been putting on shows since 2009. This year’s play is "Sagebrush Sidekicks," a story about a bunch of simple cowboys applying to be a sidekick for a mysterious western "legend." Scotty joins us to discuss “The Hayloft” theatre and this year’s play, which runs July 26-30. ~~~ Sue Balcom is talking about houseplants in today’s episode of Main Street Eats.