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10/26/2010: Wahpeton was in a tenuous situation in October of 1922. The weather had been dry since June, and fires were rampant throughout the city and surrounding areas, burning barns, a theater, and threatening homes.

10/30/2010: Meeting the religious needs of Dakota’s far-flung and sparse population in the late 19th century required ingenuity. For Episcopal Bishop William Walker the solution was a “church on wheels.”

11/3/2010: On this date in 1936, Franklin D. Roosevelt won a second term as president. The following fall, he became the first president to visit the city of Grand Forks. Today’s story tells of what happened in Grand Forks when FDR came to the city to officially dedicate the new county fair grandstand, a W.P.A. project, in October of 1937.

11/6/2010: Peggy Lee, famed singer with North Dakota roots, wore many hats. She composed music; she sang music; she did a little acting, and she loaned her voice for several characters in the Disney cartoon “Lady and the Tramp.”

11/9/2010: North Dakota is not exactly known for its gang activities. However, in the spring of 1958, a gang was forming within the Mandan school system.

11/16/2010: Bismarck was a fledgling city in 1875, lying at the end of the track on the Northern Pacific Railroad. Although the community was growing rapidly, the railroad was inclined to limit the runs from Fargo once winter set in.

11/17/2010: Generations of North Dakotans have grimly joked about spending their last days in the cold charity of the poorhouse. A poem from 1871 told of going “over the hill to the poor-house,” a saying that has lived on in the phrase “over the hill.”

11/20/2010: It seems that a man by the name of Sonstaby ran a wood yard near Bismarck in 1875, but he suddenly disappeared with a team of horses that didn't belong to him.

11/23/2010: On November 21, 1921 a peculiar announcement went out inviting the public and Governor Frazier to an inaugural ceremony in the House Chambers at the State Capitol. Inaugural ceremonies are generally held at the beginning of each legislative session in January when a new governor takes the helm of the State, so why was the House Chamber being readied for a November event?

12/1/2010: In 1932, the U.S. unemployment rate was at twenty-three percent. In Minot, that summer, about one hundred men who had lost their jobs banded together to “make their way” through their misfortune.