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8/24/2009: In 1939, the people of North Dakota prepared to celebrate the state's Golden Jubilee, remembering North Dakota's 50 years of statehood from 1889 to 1939.

8/26/2009: Whether it's granular or powder, brown or white, sugar remains a staple in households across the country. For many North Dakotan's, that sugar is often bought from the grocery store in little five-pound blue and white bags with the words "Crystal Sugar" neatly printed across the face. While we often associate our sugar with sugarcane, a commodity grown in the tropics, the sugar we buy from "Crystal Sugar" is produced right here in Midwest using our own home-grown beets.

8/27/2009: Life on a frontier army post in the 19th century was filled with hardships. For the men of the 1st US Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Fort Rice, one bright, but fleeting diversion came in the form of a 21-year-old woman named Elizabeth Cardwell.

8/29/2009: Modern insecticides have stopped grasshoppers from being the nightmare they used to be, but many can remember the days when each step into a field sent hundreds of grasshoppers catapulting into the air.

8/31/2009: On this date in 1929, however, it was reported that a cow from around the Hazen area wandered directly into perhaps the most interesting day of her life.

9/1/2009: Artist Scott Gunvaldson was commissioned by the city of Fargo as part of an ongoing public arts program. With the theme "Fargo Commerce" on his mind, he started work.

9/5/2009: In 1883, the capitol of Dakota Territory was moved from Yankton to Bismarck, and on this date, many prominent citizens, including ex-president Ulysses S. Grant, came to see the laying of the new building's cornerstone.

9/9/2009: During the thirties, intense heat, cold and drought contended with other factors to turn the Midwest into a giant dust bowl. With the erosion of topsoil and the destruction of farmland, many lost their home, and their will to continue. Yet some still chose to stay and push forward, despite the difficulties.

9/16/2009: In 1942, while other schoolchildren were stuck inside a classroom learning reading, writing, and arithmetic, the children of Wing village spent their days in workshops, classrooms, and fields learning the finer points of shoe repair, woodwork, and gardening.

9/17/2009: In 1946, the people of Selfridge feared that an "undemocratic and un-American" presence had infiltrated their public schools. The suspects were not devious spies, but rather Catholic nuns.