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8/26/2011: When Max Eastman, the famous pacifist and socialist, was invited to speak in Fargo, nobody knew how much his appearance would impact the community, and Eastman himself. I

9/6/2011: United States President Rutherford B. Hayes visited Red River Valley bonanza farms near Casselton on this date in 1887. The President spent most of his time on the Dalrymple wheat farm, admiring the size and efficiency of the highly mechanized operation run by Oliver Dalrymple.

9/13/2011: New Salem hit the news in June of 1968, when Parade magazine, a Sunday supplement in newspapers throughout the country, reported that an anonymous ad had been received by the student newspaper at Harvard University, telling of “the desperate plight of bashful New Salem bachelors, who were eagerly searching for educated and attractive wives.”

9/16/2011: There is history in every step you take, and in every place you see, whether or not you know it. You may be driving over an old cattle trail, or perhaps you live where there was once a school, or a barn, or a church.

9/22/2011: “Go West, Young Man, Go West.” Horace Greeley is often attributed for this famous quotation, though he may not have said or written it…yet he supported the sentiment, urging for westward expansion as the country developed.

9/28/2011: Today a North Dakota legislator from Pembina County could hop in a car and drive to the state legislature in about five hours. When Antoine Gingras was elected to represent the Pembina district in the territorial legislature in 1851, it wasn’t so easy.

9/7/2010: William Nathaniel Roach, early North Dakota politician, passed away on this date in 1902. Although his later career was tainted by political scandal, Roach served in political office for sixteen years, until his retirement in 1899.

9/9/2010: A deadly fire aboard the USS North Dakota made national headlines on this date a century ago.

9/11/2010: What started out as an ordinary day on the morning of September 11, 2001 quickly became anything but for Brad Derrig and two other F-16 pilots of North Dakota's 119th Fighter Wing. Shortly after the attack on the Twin Towers, the three North Dakota fighter jets were scrambled from their unit's alert detachment at Langley Air Force Base to intercept hijacked airliners over New York and Washington DC.

9/14/2010: Dr. J. H. Johnson, the first surgeon of the North Dakota Soldiers' Home, passed away on this date in 1910. As surgeon of the home, Johnson also served on the Board of Admissions.