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9/15/2011: On this date in 1968, as fall settled in and students returned to school, the school board in Garrison had already faced some serious issues, with money woes a major component of a recent school board meeting.

9/17/2011: Oliver Borlaug, who built a significant publishing empire in central North Dakota, began his newspaper career in Steele at the Kidder County News in 1939, moving to the Steele Ozone in 1941.

9/21/2011: The Clay County Bank was organized on this date in 1871 in Vermillion. The bank was only the second bank in Dakota Territory, the first being the short-lived bank of Yankton, which was opened two years earlier in 1869.

9/27/2011: Robert Henry Bahmer was born on this date in 1904 in Gardena, North Dakota. He is best known for his work with the National Archives, which is responsible for maintaining the records of the United States Federal Government.

11/8/2009: In 1954, Marilyn Wentz was crowned homecoming queen of the University of North Dakota. It was announced by the Bismarck Tribune on this date through a photograph printed in the newspaper; the pretty girl forever caught in a state of high emotions, laughing and looking ecstatic as she sported her new crown.

11/9/2009: Driving down DeMers Avenue and headed toward the Red River, you will find the building some refer to as "The Jewel in the Heart of Downtown Grand Forks". Otherwise known as the Empire Arts Center, the building has seen numerous name changes and several face lifts in its 90 year history.

11/10/2009: In November of 1910, John Cowan, a well respected judge from Devils Lake, set a match to the tinderbox of prohibition by refusing to hear a case about two little "blind pigs."

11/14/2009: The Territory of Dakota announced its contribution to the New Orleans Exposition on this day in 1884. Territorial officials announced that the state would send a prize pumpkin, weighing 185 pounds, to the city.

11/18/2009: In the study of North Dakota's history, we are often confronted by the deeds and actions of the ‘great men' of the state's past; the grit of Theodore Roosevelt, the headstrong courage of George Armstrong Custer, the acrimonious governorships of William Langer or the fatalistic determination of Sitting Bull. Certainly, North Dakota history would have been much less colorful without Roosevelt, Custer, Sitting Bull or Langer, but the nature of the state would have remained the same. A handful of men, no matter how famous, did not create the customs and heritage of North Dakota. No, it was the ordinary people history is more apt to forget; those whose hard work and determination built the North Dakota we know today.

11/20/2009: The Lewis and Clark expedition began their ascent up the Mississippi River on this day in 1803. The group, under the direction of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, was composed of a ragtag band of military men, interpreters, traders, and boatmen. Although Lewis had originally intended to recruit fifteen men for the expedition, it was necessary to hire several more boatmen in Illinois Country - as the area was then known - in order to move the group's two large keelboats up the Mississippi on their way to the Missouri river.