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5/11/2011: Architect Gilbert Horton moved from St. Paul to set up practice in Jamestown on this date in 1911. He liked it immediately.

5/12/2011: Dust, driven by the wind, can infiltrate windows, nostrils, and doors. Whirling, whipping winds began stirring on May 9, 1934, in Canada’s Great Plains, lifting Saskatchewan dust into the air. The wind blew into Eastern Montana and western North Dakota. The dry soil in Williston went airborne, swept aloft by gale-force winds across the Dakota landscape. The wind blew for 24 hours non-stop. Thus began the “dust storm of the century” on May 9th and 10th.

5/18/2011: The Boy Scouts of America was formed in Nineteen Ten and quickly spread to every corner of the United States. By the end of Nineteen Eleven, fifty Scoutmasters across North Dakota were teaching young men to follow Scout Law, to do a good turn daily, and, of course, be prepared.

5/22/2011: Henry the Younger had the same name as his uncle, Henry Alexander, a trapper who gained fame for exploring the lands between Montreal and the Rocky Mountains.

5/23/2011: The Vietnam War began in 1965, and that seems like so long ago, 46 years. The war was controversial from the start.

5/31/2011: In the midst of World War I, the fighting in Europe hit close to home—and also to the classroom. On this date in 1918, the graduating class of Bismarck High School had a lot more to think about than graduation parties.

6/4/2011: Philippe Regis De Trobriand was born in France on this date in 1816. He was educated in Paris and trained for a military career. In 1841, he traveled to the U.S., met and married a NY heiress, and worked as a journalist. He fought in the Civil War and was present when Robert E. Lee surrendered.

6/8/2011: On this date in 1882, Grand Forks said “hello” to the telephone. Famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell had invented his modern marvel of voice communication in 1876, and telephone wires began to connect American cities in the years thereafter.

6/9/2011: You’ve heard of Calamity Jane, but have you ever heard of Calamity Joe ?

6/14/2011: On this date in 1962 it was shaping up to be quite the weekend in Watford City, with area residents looking forward to two conventions, a rodeo, and a groundbreaking ceremony for the Good Shepherd Home.