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9/16/2010: North Dakota has been the home of two Air Force bases since the 1950s, and both Minot and Grand Forks have benefitted economically. However, both cities have faced risks from the very presence of the nuclear weapons carried on B-52 bombers.

9/19/2010: On this date in 1981, workers for the State Historical Society were packing up objects for the grand move to the new building.

9/20/2010: Welcome to a week at the museum! This week we are bringing you the stories behind some of the objects at the Heritage Center. Among pioneer artifacts of washboards and spinning wheels, there are objects from some of North Dakota's earlier residents, including a buffalo-hide tepi.

9/21/2010: Welcome, as we continue our week at the museum! Perusing the museum's storage you can find a map of North Dakota's counties done up in stamps by a school group or a portrait painted by John Singer Sargent. The owner of that piece was so cheap he smuggled it through customs so he didn't have to pay taxes!

9/23/2010: Welcome, as we continue our week at the museum! Along the museum storage shelves are some dangerous artifacts, including pistols, rifles and medicine laced with mercury. Today's object, however, is hardly dangerous.

9/25/2010: The Izaak Walton League was formed in 1922 by sportsmen who wanted to save the outdoors for future generations. Today, there is only one chapter in North Dakota, in St. John. In the past, however, the organization had more presence here.

9/26/2010: On this date in 1909, three Ramsey County boys between the ages of 12 and 15 decided they had enough of living at their parents' farms.

11/10/2010: The high school in Drake, North Dakota, garnered national attention on this date in 1973, after the Drake Board of Education ordered the burning of thirty-six copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s controversial novel, Slaughterhouse Five. The story broke only a day before the author’s 51st birthday.

11/15/2010: Automobiles were still a novelty in most places in 1907 and the editor of the St. Thomas Times was delighted to accept a ride in a Buick Touring car, the results of which appeared on this date in the Lakota American.

11/19/2010: In late October of 1883, unusual colors began to illuminate the evening and morning skies over Dakota Territory. Everyone could see that something was in the air those autumn months and on into the winter of 1883-84.