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This Sunday on Prairie Public Presents: In 1979, Andrew Nguyen’s family escaped Vietnam on board a cargo ship named the Skyluck. Andrew was only 4 and can barely remember the trip that changed his life. So when he discovered that his mom, Tina Nguyen, had kept detailed journals of their escape tucked away in a shoebox in their hall closet, Andrew begged her to read them to him. This year... she agreed.

11/10/2014: In August of 1898, Justice Guy Corliss of the North Dakota Supreme Court surprised nearly everyone when he resigned after nearly nine years on the bench. Having been elected as the youngest of the three original justices to the court, the young Corliss had just celebrated his fortieth birthday. When asked why he was resigning, he simply answered that he wished to start a North Dakota law school. The following year, with the help of UND president Webster Merrifield, Justice Corliss became the first dean of the UND School of Law in Grand Forks.

11/12/2014: The enterprising people of Grand Forks promoted the idea of a canal to connect their fair city with Duluth. The idea was to make a waterway to carry wheat from the Red River Valley to the Great Lakes and beyond.

11/17/2014: Herbert R. Albrecht was born in 1909 in Wisconsin. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) with his doctorate, he served on the faculty of Auburn University. From there he went to Purdue and then Penn State, where he chaired the agronomy department. His particular interest was in the breeding of legumes and turf grasses. He authored numerous articles on agronomy, genetics, and extension work. He was a delegate to the International Grassland Congress in New Zealand, and president of the Crop Society of America.

11/18/2014: For centuries, the accurate measure of time was unnecessary. People measured time in the transition from day to night and back again. Devices invented to provide a slightly more accurate measure included the sundial, sand timers, and burning candles. These methods were not terribly accurate, but were adequate for the times. Life continued, despite the inability to precisely denote the time.

12/18/2014: America’s wild horses are descendants of animals that escaped from the Spaniards. They were known as mustangs, and they changed the lives of Great Plains Indians, who soon became known as formidable horse warriors.

1/9/2015: Lynn Frazier is well-known in North Dakota political history, elected as the NPL candidate for governor in 1916 and winning reelection in 1918 and 1920. Early in 1920 there even reports from NPL organizers and newspapers about Frazier running for president. He failed to qualify for his party’s nomination in neighboring South Dakota, but on this date, a possible presidential bid was still a topic of conversation.

1/14/2015: Count Berthold von Imhoff was born in Mannheim, Germany on this date in 1868. He demonstrated artistic talent early, painting landscapes at the age of seven. By fourteen, he was serving an apprenticeship. He was awarded the Art Academy Award of Berlin for a painting he completed when he was only sixteen.

1/16/2015: North Dakota's thirteenth legislative session began in January of 1913. Many of those seats in the House and Senate were held by legislators still remembered today. For example, Col. John Fraine, longtime member of the North Dakota National Guard, whose name lives on in the Fraine Barracks; Bert Ash, a well-known drum major for the First Infantry Band; D.R. Streeter, the editor of the Emmons County Record, the namesake of the town Streeter; and newspaperman Walter F. Cushing of Fargo, publisher of The Record, a historical magazine.

1/21/2015: As Abraham Lincoln watched the theatre stage, John Wilkes Booth crept from the shadows behind, drew his derringer pistol, and fired. Mortally wounded, the president slumped forward, never to regain consciousness.