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4/5/2009: An alien immigrant named Louis Peter Kanell was born in 1892 in Zaimogli, Greece. In the summer of 1917, he moved from Salt Lake City to Mandan, where he was heralded as an expert candy maker at the White confectionary store on Main Street.

4/9/2009: Thirty-five years ago today on April 9, 1974, there were no classes at Minnewaukan Public School. Although that Tuesday was not a holiday, nor a storm day, the students had a day off.

4/14/2009: It was a calm, clear evening in the middle of the north Atlantic on this date in 1912. The drop in temperature signaled an approaching region of ice, but danger was far from anyone's mind. But suddenly lookouts noticed the black spot of an iceberg. With orders to turn, the ship slowly veered left. But it was too late. The glancing blow along the starboard bow proved fatal.

4/16/2009: On this day in 1858, John Heid Sr. was born in Hoffenheim, Germany.

4/25/2009: Guns have been a subject of legislation since the founding of our country. For example, in 1915, North Dakota crime fighters were frustrated by a rash of bank robberies.

4/28/2009: "No Dakota for me," Mr. Cooper exclaimed in 1878. "I crossed the entire territory, from east to west... and I am free to say that I would not give the shadow of a lamb's tail for all the Dakota dirt we passed over."

5/2/2009: The discovery of gold in the Black Hills created an immediate need for transportation to southern Dakota Territory. Before the railroad reached Pierre, a stagecoach along the Bismarck-Deadwood Stage Trail was the most popular mode.

5/13/2009: Marilyn Jeanette (Sauer) Bauman Interviewed: Bismarck, ND, 22 July 2007

5/22/2009: High-school graduation brings about a feeling of change and a time for new beginnings. Countless North Dakota graduates have been bitten by the "Adventure Bug," yearning for excitement, fame and fortune in the Big City.

5/24/2009: It has been a long, hard, cold winter, but we are finally throwing off these last chilly dregs of the season and, regardless of the high winds and flooding, spring has come. Leaves are budding, flowers blooming, birds are singing, and the golfers are out.