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3/21/2009: Oscar W. Peterson was a boiler-maker in Jamestown before he joined the Army in 1917. On this date in 1918, he was promoted from corporal to sergeant, and two months later he was shipped overseas, where he served in France during WWI.

3/22/2009: There's a lot of beauty living out in the country, but that life has its troubles, too. George Dockter found that out in the winter of 1946.

3/24/2009: The melting pot that is America has welcomed many settlers over the centuries. Each individual bore with them some small impact, some talent or knowledge or even personality that affected the fabric of today.

3/25/2009: The following is a print ad for Van Camp's Pork and Beans found in the March 25, 1908, issue of the Fargo Forum. It's a "comparison" ad, comparing YOUR WAY, (as in your home kitchen), and OUR WAY, (as in our modern Van Camp's factory). Listen closely. You'll enjoy the comparisons!

3/26/2009: It was a day of firsts in Fargo's sister city of Moorhead, Minnesota. As reported on this date in 1928, Moorhead High had won its first major sports title by taking the 16th Annual Minnesota high school basketball championship. They beat a Minneapolis team, the Edison Inventors, before a record-breaking crowd of 7,200 spectators in the U of M Fieldhouse.

3/28/2009: Some cows are born for greater fields. Such was the fate of a gentle cow belonging to Bob Hinman, of Alexander, North Dakota.

3/29/2009: This year, all across America, people are celebrating the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. Perhaps Lincoln's greatest influence on North Dakota was his signing of the Homestead Act in 1862, which brought thousands of settlers to the state with the promise of free land.

4/3/2009: Today's story is just a quick glimpse into the life of North Dakota homesteading woman, Adeline Elizabeth Iverson Aplin. In her later years, she wrote down her life's story as best she could recall, because she wanted her sons to enjoy and relive her early years, in Dakota especially.

4/8/2009: John Moses announced his third bid for the office of North Dakota governor on this date in 1938. This time he would win, and go on to serve two more terms after that.

4/12/2009: An odd story came from Fort Buford, Dakota Territory, on this date in 1879. The Missouri was breaking up, and as people watched ice floes rushing down the river, they spied something curious coming toward them.