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Sue shares some ideas for savory pies and sweet desserts using vegetables from the garden.

A traditional funeral song.

In late August, 1911, a horrible fire in Topeka, Kansas did more than one hundred thousand dollars damage in the business district. The reports noted that the J. C. Gresser furniture company, and the Grebbs clothing company were hit the hardest, but what caught readers’ attention in North Dakota was the news that photo studio also burned, killing a man named Evans, who lived in the studio.

Thursday, September 2, 2021 - Jack Wood, co-founder of the Growing Together Community Gardens in Fargo has won the RCA Magic Hero Award for his community service. He joins us to discuss the gardening ministry he started in 2006 as a way to provide a safe place for New Americans to make new friends while growing food and relationships. ~~~ Chuck Lura shares a Natural North Dakota essay about the Baltimore Oriole. ~~~ This Sunday’s Great American Folk Show will include a conversation about Notstock at Minot State. It’s an interactive arts event. In this excerpt, Tom Brosseau chats with Notstock founders Laurie Geller and Bill Harbort. ~~~ Sue Balcom talks about Labor Day and the many food festivals that take place around the world at this time of year.

A Scandinavian Christmas tradition.

The past few weeks I’ve been trying to explain how we on the Great Plains are so fortunate to have a prodigious crop of ballads and folksongs dating from the settlement generation and its children.

How to grow, trim and cook 'em. And by the way, Brussels sprouts are named after the fact that they were cultivated in Belgium in the 16th century. Knowing this little fact will also help you remember that it's Brussels sprouts, not Brussel sprouts, and it's Brussels sprout even if you're only referring to one sprout.

The latest film from Clint Eastwood

Friday, September 24, 2021 - For this month’s Journalists Roundtable, news director Dave Thompson is joined by Cecile Wehrman, editor for Journal Publishing, which puts out the Crosby Journal and the Tioga Tribune; and Jack Zaleski, columnist and former editorial page editor for Forum Communications. ~~~ Matt Olien reviews Clint Eastwood’s new film, “Cry Macho.”

Monday, September 27, 2021- Each month we make a thoughtful examination of a current issue in an episode we call Philosophical Currents with UND philosophy professor Jack Russell Weinstein. This month we discuss socialism. ~~~ Chuck Lura shares a Natural North Dakota essay on the sounds of fall. ~~~ October is National Arts & Humanities Month, and it’s just around the corner. Joining us with the latest arts and humanities news is Kim Konikow, executive director of the North Dakota Council on the Arts.