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Wednesday, September 22, 2021 - With NPR celebrating 50 years, and radio on Prairie Public celebrating 40 years, we’re delighted to visit with Lisa Napoli, the author of “Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR.”

During World War II, the American public paid exceptional attention to the needs of their local community as well as the needs of the troops. One of the frequent citizen-led activities were drives for needed items during the long, weary days and years of the war. Virtually every newspaper in the country kept people apprised of those needs.

Germans from Russia talk about why their ancestors came.

Divining, or "dowsing" is practiced many places — including North Dakota.

In 1917, laws governing what could happen on Sundays, the Blue laws, seemed to be on the brink of change in North Dakota, but many of those bills failed, including a bill allowing shooting and hunting on Sundays.

In 1889, Louis Peterson opened the Pacific Hotel in Bismarck. He named it in honor of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Only three years later, Peterson died.Henry Tatley acquired the hotel when he married Peterson’s widow in 1897. The original hotel was a wooden building, but in 1906, Tatley added a brick structure at the corner of Fourth Street and Broadway at a cost of $60,000, the equivalent of nearly two million dollars today.

October is American Archives Month, where archives around the country celebrate the records in their holdings and recognize the archivists who assess, collect, organize, preserve, and provide access to information of lasting value. The North Dakota State Archives is part of the State Historical Society of North Dakota.

On this date, in 1924, the Fargo Forum carried a story about Joseph Jarvino, a young man with a criminal record that started with frequent visits to the Northern Pacific station in Moorhead. Jarvino was a bell boy at a Fargo hotel, and during his noon hours, he would drop by the Moorhead Depot and lift small amounts of money from the till. After a while, a watch was posted over the Depot, and one day, he got caught in the act.

In the middle of the night on February 15, 1898 the battleship USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor. Americans immediately blamed Spain. Although Americans were shocked and angered, war was slow to follow. Spain declared war on the United States on April 24. The United States responded by declaring war on Spain the following day.

Wednesday, October 6, 2021 - On Thursday, the television service of Prairie Public will begin a new TV musical travelogue called “Wish You Were Here.” It’s a concert series that features locations in the Dakotas. Moderating the show is our guest today, Eliza Blue, who is known to Main Street listeners for her monthly Postcards from the Prairie. ~~~ Eric Dregni is the author of “For the Love of Cod -- A Father and Sons Search for Norwegian happiness.” He’ll be at the Sons of Norway lodge in Fargo on Friday, so we thought this would be a good time to re-air our conversation with him from earlier this year.