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5/21/2010: In the grasslands of the Great Plains states, especially in North Dakota, the areas where Germans from Russia settlements sprang up are dotted with cemeteries that contain iron crosses.

5/22/2010: the city of Fargo, the city rebuilt itself into a booming metropolis.

5/23/2010: Generally, the arrival of a baby warrants some sort of celebration, such as the father handing out a cigar.

5/27/2010: Until 1920, state law in North Dakota did not allow anyone to play organized baseball games on a Sunday. Sunday was to be a day of rest and for church services. However, North Dakotans were said to be "baseball mad" - absolutely mad for playing America's national game. As a preacher said about North Dakota: "It is baseball seven days of the week, Sunday and Monday alike."

5/28/2010: North Dakota was not a state when the North and the South fought the Civil War from 1861 to 1865. However, a multitude of Union veterans moved into Dakota Territory in the years after the war had ended.

5/29/2010: New Rockford, in Eddy County, and Carrington, in Foster County, are only about seventeen miles apart. They share similarities: Both were settled about 1882; both had post offices established in 1883; both were on the upswing to become leading cities.

6/12/2010: Carrier pigeons have been used to carry messages back and forth for hundreds of years. But using the pigeons had some limitations.

6/24/2010: In recent years, we have grown increasingly aware of "green" terms, reducing carbon footprints, and improving energy efficiency, to the point where many of these environmentally-friendly terms have been added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. But progress and energy efficiency have been goals longer than that.

7/26/2010: Grand Forks had a problem with bicycles in the 1890s. More specifically, the city had problems with bicycle riders who zipped along sidewalks, bobbing and weaving through pedestrians in what was called "scorching."

7/28/2010: Some stereotype North Dakota as a flat and treeless state. To contradict such ideas, one has only to point to the badlands in the west and to tree-lined rivers and the tree-covered hills of the northern border. Still there is certainly a unique type of terrain that crosses North Dakota: the grasslands.