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2/23/2010: Today we continue the story of Skip Holm, decorated fighter pilot from North Dakota, born this week in 1944.

3/2/2010: When Mrs. Earl Schaefer had to run errands one day in 1933 in Killdeer, she didn't give a second thought to leaving her four-year-old daughter Hazel at home with her one-year-old daughter Florence.

3/3/2010: A leisurely drive through downtown Grand Forks showcases some of the city's most unique and interesting architecture. There is the Art Deco-style United Lutheran Church, on the corner of Chestnut Street and 4th Avenue. The old Presbyterian Church, with its Greek Revival style, looms like a castle, complete with gargoyles, at the corner of 5th Street and Belmont Road. There's also the Masonic Temple on Bruce Avenue. These Grand Forks landmarks, among many others, can be credited to one man - Joseph Bell DeRemer.

3/5/2010: Fort Totten was established on the south shore of Devils Lake in 1867 and the City of Devils Lake was established on the north shore in 1883 under speculation that the Great Northern Railroad would be running a track into this area.

3/6/2010: It occasionally happens that animals wander off their farms. Usually, the lost animals have merely slipped out and are roaming the countryside. However, on this date in 1919, the young, stray steer of Henry Fisher of Dickinson, was found, not on the pastoral fields surrounding the city, but trapped in an old granary.

3/8/2010: When settlers began to make their way to the Great Plains and other semi-arid areas, they faced many issues, but especially for the vast array of farmers, the often dry climate was a major one.

3/14/2010: North Dakotan Marion Hagberg was a nurse, through and through. She was trained in and practiced nursing in several states. She even met her future husband, Walter Moen, when he hired her for a job as a nursing supervisor.

3/17/2010: Edward P. Wells, of Jamestown, distinguished himself on this date in 1899 at the great Windsor Hotel fire in New York City. The hotel, situated on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-Seventh Street, burned to the ground, killing over thirty people and injuring more than fifty. Many of the injured were not hotel guests, but spectators watching the St. Patrick's Day parade below.

3/18/2010: On this date in 1951, when coffee prices in Fargo-Moorhead restaurants were set to rise, many people had coffee on their minds. The price increase was five cents, bringing the cost for a cup of Joe up to ten cents. For us today, it was a drop in the bucket-but at that time, it was double the original price - that in a year when inflation overall was less than 4%.

3/27/2010: When Henry Waldo Coe moved to Mandan, he was the first physician to settle in the state. He eventually became mayor there, among other prominent positions, and even befriended President Theodore Roosevelt.