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This week on Prairie Plates, host Rick Gion talks with Matt Walkowiak, general manager and co-owner of Harry’s Steakhouse in West Fargo and Grand Forks.

Arthur Cleveland Bent describes the white-breasted nuthatch as a "droll, earnest little bird, rather sedate and unemotional. He is no great musician and seems to lack a sense of humor."

“Terroir” is a term deployed by wine enthusiasts often with more mystique than precision. There is a sort of magic by which the environmental qualities of a particular place are supposed to pass through into the aesthetic virtues of the wine.

It was 1902, and President Theodore Roosevelt was deep in the woods on a hunting trip when something felt off.

Dave Thompson and Sen. Sean Cleary discuss Cleary's first term in the North Dakota legislature, his state employee retirement bill, tax cuts, and more.

In 1916 the Grand Forks Herald published the words — three 8-line stanzas and a chorus — to a popular song that was making the rounds. The chorus starts out in heartwarming fashion, but then it takes a deadly turn.

Many small towns across the state slowly shrank after a peak population of 680,000 in 1930, a number that would not be reached again until after 2010. People had moved to larger cities, farms consolidated, and various economic busts meant many small towns lost their schools, businesses, churches, and post offices. However, the majestically named town of Napoleon was noted to be prosperous on this date in 1986.

Jeremiah Program and Laetitia Mizero Hellerud, Jessie Veeder, Chuck Lura, "End of the Rope" and filmmaker Daniel Bielinski of Bismarck.

On this date in 1900, the Bottineau Current announced the arrival of a much-anticipated play. “The Old Maid’s Convention” had already been staged in Bismarck, Jamestown, and other places in the state before reaching Bottineau. The play was performed at the Bottineau opera house, garnering rave reviews.

Matt Olien on movie attendance ~ Dave Thompson with a news review ~ Carole Lindstrom and her book "My Powerful Hair."