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8/17/2009: On this date in 1947, the Grand Forks Herald reported that seventy-eight-year-old David C. Giles took his first driver's test to obtain an operating license for an electric-powered wheel chair.

8/25/2009: Young Kermit Roosevelt eagerly awaited letters from his father. They were filled with detailed images, sketched in words, of his father's adventures in the Dakota Badlands. All the Roosevelt children gloried in the stories of ranching and hunting contained in what they referred to as "picture letters," and literally read them to pieces. Although few of those letters survived, the pictures they painted in Kermit's imagination endured.

8/30/2009: As the walls went up, few knew of the hidden beams until one day in 1944 when they mysteriously appeared. The building was quickly enclosed and people gathered for the first Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit on this date in 1945.

9/10/2009: The British call them "chips," served with deep-fried slabs of cod fish, and wrapped up in yesterday's newspaper. The French refer to them as "frites," served up with mayonnaise or mustard. And the Canadians prefer them doused in malt vinegar, with salt liberally applied. But here in America, we call them French fries.

9/12/2009: In the good old days, farming could be difficult. Instead of the heavy machinery of today, farmers relied on horses. The dangers of being kicked, dragged, trampled or trod upon were not pleasant, and so switching to gas machinery was a welcome change.

9/13/2009: On September 10, 1890, the North Dakota School for the Deaf was founded in Devils Lake.

9/14/2009: When a child hears the word "school" today, he or she might think of brick school buildings, big yellow buses, computers, and textbooks. But the word school meant something very different to the first students of North Dakota. School meant walking two miles to a one-room structure made of wood, stone, or sod to learn about the three Rs without benefit of textbooks, workbooks, or in many cases, pencils and paper.

9/23/2009: When the train pulled up to Medora hours before dawn in early September of 1890, Theodore Roosevelt's ranch hands were already there; eager to see their longtime friend and meet his sister Corinne Roosevelt Robinson.

9/22/2009: It was announced by the Fargo Forum this week in 1974 that the Comstock House in Moorhead, Minnesota was being considered for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.

9/24/2009: In 1891, the city of Grand Forks consisted primarily of Scandinavian immigrants. But with the growth of the city, more immigrants came from Eastern Europe and Russia, seeking a better life. The city's Jewish community grew, expanding to 60 families.