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5/16/2008: Did you know that by the 1950's, there was a little bit of North Dakota growing in Washington, D.C.?

5/17/2008: On this day, May 17, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry set out from Fort Abraham Lincoln on the expedition that would meet its fateful end at the Little Bighorn.

5/18/2008: Senator Porter McCumber of North Dakota was born in Crete, Illinois in 1858. Following his graduation from the University of Michigan, McCumber moved to Wahpeton, Dakota Territory in 1881 to practice law. After several years in the Dakota Territorial legislature, he was eventually elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1899.

5/22/2008: What drives you? Here is an excerpt for your listening pleasure: "I used to pay my grocery bill whenever it was due, and in the butcher's yawning till the coin I promptly threw. But now in vain they plead and moan to get my good long green, for every dollar that I own I need for gasoline!" Do you know when this was written? If you said "today," you're mistaken.

5/24/2008: Since his birth on this day in 1914, Arthur Albert Link has become widely recognized in his home state for his service as a US Representative and as the twenty-seventh Governor of North Dakota.

5/25/2008: In 1914, the people of North Dakota presented a bust of Abraham Lincoln to Norway. Five years later, in gratitude to his home state for his first significant commission, the sculptor, Paul Fjelde gifted the original plaster cast, from which the bronze bust of Lincoln was made, to Valley City’s State Normal School.

5/28/2008: His motto was “Above All Things Charity.” Bishop Vincent J. Ryan strove to make that his life’s guiding principle both before and after his consecration as Bishop of Bismarck on this day in 1940.

5/30/2008: Between 1996 and 1999, the Library of Congress sponsored a competition that would provide funding to libraries, archives, museums or historical societies to digitize their primary source collections of historical or cultural importance. The twenty-three selected collections were then made available online through the Library of Congress’s American Memory website. One of two collections chosen from the North Dakota State University's Institute of Regional Studies was the F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collection.

6/4/2008: If you read the Navy Cross citation for Ralph Rich, you’ll possibly learn he was born on January 22, 1916, in the town of Denmark, South Carolina. While the date is correct, the location is not. Ralph McMaster Rich was born in Denmark Township, Ward County, North Dakota.

6/6/2008: On this day in 1899, the city of Fargo looked ready for a carnival. That's because they were. After planning and preparing, residents were ready for a special festival that was to really kick off the next day. In just five years, it had become something of a state holiday: It was the fire festival.