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11/4/2008: Today is Election Day and no doubt it promises to be a historic one. No matter what the outcome, it will mark a first for America, whether it is Sen. Barack Obama elected as the first African-American to the White House, or Gov. Sarah Palin as the first woman. And, this election also promises to bring out record numbers of voters. After all, it’s our duty as citizens in a democratic government, right? … Right?

11/10/2008: The name George Broadhurst is generally associated with the theaters of Chicago, San Francisco or New York. But North Dakota also helped launch the career of the playwright who became internationally renowned for works such as ‘The Mills of the Gods’ and ‘The Man of the Hour,’ starring Douglas Fairbanks.

11/11/2008: World War I, the war to end all wars, was a mixture of 19th Century tactics and the emergence of 20th Century technology. The long columns of men marching in formation against each other had ended and the more defensive positions in the form of trench warfare had evolved. Sam Rigler wrote to his brother in Richardton from the front lines. His unit had been assigned to the trenches as the fall rains were beginning.

11/12/2008: In this hurry up world, the wrist watch is an almost irreplaceable item of jewelry to make sure we are in the right place at the right time, but historically, the wrist watch did not become popular until after World War I. Wrist watches were for the ladies only and no correctly dressed gentleman would be caught with one. The properly dressed gentleman would not be without his pocket watch which he generally carried on a watch fob in a vest pocket. One of these gentlemen was Axel Axelrud, a prominent farmer who raised milk cows along with grain on his Walsh County farm.

11/13/2008: Veterans Day is a very special day during which we celebrate our heroes who have fought, who have fallen, and who have served our country. It used to specifically honor World War I, falling specifically on the day that war ended, and celebrated elsewhere as Armistice Day, but though it still serves to remember that war, it has expanded to include other years, other men, and other wars.

11/16/2008: On this date, it was reported that J. E. Donahue of New Rockford recovered a car that had been taken from his garage at the end of October.

12/6/2008: Two months of fighting in the US-Dakota Conflict of 1862 ended with hundreds dead and over one thousand Native American prisoners.

12/10/2008: Did you know you can find a person just by Googling a phone number? That you can find an address without talking to anyone’s relatives? That the Internet has closely tied the world together?

12/16/2008: What do James Russell Lowell, Edward Greenleaf Whittier and Longfellow all have in common? Apart from being renowned poets, they all had the pleasure of sharing company with Wild - no, not playwright Oscar Wilde - but Wild Rose, also known as Anna Dawson, a young Boston socialite and a member of the Three Affiliated Tribes who would later become an activist during the relocation for the Garrison Dam.

12/24/2008: Philip Henry Sheridan is often remembered as one of the great Union generals of the Civil War. Yet the vast majority of his military career was spent in connection with the expanding frontier.