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6/16/2007: In 1977, Joan Tryhus organized the first Scandinavian Festival in Trollwood Fine Arts Park

6/17/2007: By 1932 there were over three hundred and sixty underground coal mines listed in the coal mine inspection reports but on this date in 1874, The Bismarck Tribune was in receipt of correspondence from the Sweet Briar Coal Mine, one of the first commercial coal mines in the West River country.

6/18/2007: A group of North Dakota residents celebrated their east-coast origins on this day in 1903. The group met at Fargo in carloads to begin their annual trek to Detroit for the New England Picnic.

6/20/2007: In the early evening on this date in 1957, the residents of North Fargo experienced an event of nature that would change their lives forever. Tragically, this wrath of Mother Nature would eventually claim the lives of thirteen residents of Fargo. Perhaps most tragic of all, six members of a North Fargo family were among the dead.

6/23/2007: When Roger Maris was approached with the idea of creating a museum in his honor, the Fargo native initially declined. Eventually he relented, on the condition, he said, that it be put in a place “where people will see it, and they won’t have to pay for it.”

6/26/2007: Fort Totten began in 1867 as a military outpost on the Northern Plains that acted as a symbol in aiding settlers on their journey across the vast prairie. Slightly less than 100 years later it became another symbol- a cultural symbol.

7/4/2007: On this day in 1865, the newly united United States of America, celebrated its first Independence Day after four years of civil war.

7/5/2007: On this date in 1876, the steamer Far West returned with the first news of Custer and his 7th Cavalry’s expected encounter with “the Indians.” Up until that point, no one knew that The Battle of the Little Big Horn had been fought earlier on June 25th. Everyone was anxiously awaiting word about the Custer Expedition.

7/6/2007: What do you with a fifty-five foot, two and a half ton gorilla?

7/10/2007: Although the railroads are credited for bringing growth and prosperity to many small North Dakota towns in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was the steamboats that first served as the major Red River life lines.