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On this date in 1910 two North Dakota men found themselves in hot water for illegal trapping. Deputy game warden Thomas Turner obtained a warrant for the arrest of Curt and Paul Haase for trapping out of season. Deputy Sheriff Redmond arrested the men at the Locke Farm near Devils Lake. They had in their possession over one hundred muskrat pelts. The brothers appeared before Justice George Juergens. Caught red-handed, they had little choice. They both entered guilty pleas and were fined $26.50.

Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - Attorney Sarah Vogel is a North Dakota farm advocate who served as North Dakota Commissioner of Agriculture from 1989 to 1997. She joins us to discuss her new book, “The Farmer’s Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm.”

Friday, November 5, 2021 - Jeff Benda is a wild game chef. He's teaching an upcoming zoom class on cooking with wild game. ~~~ We share an excerpt from this Sunday’s Great American Folk Show as we hear from letterpress printer Ben Blount. ~~~ Dave Thompson is here for our weekly news chat. ~~~ Matt Olien reviews “Last Night in Soho,” a psychological horror film from director Edgar Wright.

Thursday, November 11, 2021 - Route 2 Elsewhere is a documentary highlighting the Highway 2 corridor from Michigan to Montana and features interviews from a variety of North Dakota residents. We visit with filmmaker Dirk Wierenga. ~~~ NDSU history professor Tom Isern shares a Plains Folk essay, “Song From Wayne.” ~~~ On this Veterans’ Day, we share an episode from the recent series of TellTale: Dakota Folklife and Stories, all of which feature veterans. ~~~ Sue Balcom is here with a discussion of seeds, one of nature’s most amazing things.

When the steamboat Independence navigated the Missouri River in the early 1800s, it brought a new form of transportation that helped open up the settlement and development of the American West. The Missouri River is over two thousand miles long and was considered a nightmare for navigation. The level of the water was unpredictable, sometimes flooding and sometimes only a few feet deep.

Sue Balcom is here with a discussion of seeds, one of nature’s most amazing things.

The grain elevator is the centerpiece of many small North Dakota towns and is often the tallest and most impressive structure. On this date in 1909, the Golden Valley Chronicle said of the newly completed grain elevator in Beach, “Few towns twice or thrice the size of Beach have anything to compare with it.” At seven stories tall, the elevator towered over every other structure in town. Each of the ten storage cylinders could hold 100,000 bushels of grain.

Thursday, November 18, 2021 - North Dakota farmer and rancher Gabe Brown has won the Heinz Award for the Environment, complete with $250,000 in prize money. The award acknowledges his work in regenerative agriculture. We re-air a conversation with Brown from November 2019. ~~~ Chuck Lura discusses the interesting phenomena of mima mounds in an episode of Natural North Dakota. ~~~ It’s estimated that nearly 1 in 5 Americans have left or skipped school because they did not have access to menstrual products. Aunt Flow is an organization striving to address that problem, and it works with many organizations, including Minnesota State Community and Technical College, which is now making free period products available in their campus bathrooms. Guest interviewer Brandi Malarkey visits with Madison Jansky, associate director of Equity and Inclusion at MState. ~~~ Sue Balcom is here for a discussion of spices in another installment of Main Street Eats.

Sunday, November 21, 2021 - North Dakota farmer and rancher Gabe Brown has won the Heinz Award for the Environment, complete with $250,000 in prize money. The award acknowledges his work in regenerative agriculture. We re-air a conversation with Brown from November 2019. ~~~ It’s estimated that nearly 1 in 5 Americans have left or skipped school because they did not have access to menstrual products. Aunt Flow is an organization striving to address that problem, and it works with many organizations, including Minnesota State Community and Technical College, which is now making free period products available in their campus bathrooms. Guest interviewer Brandi Malarkey visits with Madison Jansky, associate director of Equity and Inclusion at MState. ~~~ In this week’s Prairie Pulse television show, host John Harris visits with Cortnee Jensen of the North Dakota Department of Commerce. Today we share an excerpt, picking it up where Jensen explains her interesting role as director of strategy and transformation.

North Dakota history includes decades of controversy and division over restrictions on Sunday shopping. The state began its existence with these so-called “Blue Laws” that included a ban on the sale of alcohol.