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Episode 37 features North Dakota writer/musician Tom Isern and his Willow Creek Folk School; musician and poet Charlotte Carrivick; musician Eric Terino; and a visit with Joe Wiegand on his Teddy Roosevelt Show.

7/28/2012: A large storm traveled through west-central North Dakota on this date in 1996, producing a tornado near Turtle Lake and causing extensive hail damage.

7/30/2012: William Jayne, the first Governor of Dakota Territory, issued a proclamation dividing the territory into three judicial districts on this date in 1861. Jayne, Abraham Lincoln’s personal physician from Springfield, Illinois, was only thirty-five years old when President Lincoln appointed him to be Territorial Governor of Dakota. The tremendous task of creating a territorial government within the newly organized territory fell to the young physician.

8/3/2012: The village of Valley City was incorporated on this date in 1881. Founded seven years earlier, the village was the only settlement between Mapleton and Jamestown, an important stopping place for western settlers before crossing the Sheyenne River. Although the earliest settlers arrived in the valley in 1872, it wasn’t until the Northern Pacific Railroad plotted its course through the settlement that it began to grow.

8/22/2012: Long Lake, located near Moffit, is up to two miles wide and sixteen miles long. It is a refuge, containing 22,300 acres.

8/24/2012: Faithful followers of Dakota Datebook may remember that several libraries funded by Andrew Carnegie were established in North Dakota. Some questioned the manner behind his money-making prowess or his reputation as a ruthless businessman, but Andrew Carnegie nonetheless founded 2,509 libraries throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

8/25/2012: Three years ago, Governor John Hoeven proclaimed August 25 Pay it Forward Day in North Dakota.

8/30/2012: The study of history can be fascinating, fun, and enlightening. Sometimes it can also be disheartening.

9/1/2012: Did you know that parts of North Dakota have the widest temperature range in the world outside of Siberia? That's why when North Dakotans go just about anywhere else, they can impress the people with tales of frightful cold and stifling heat.

9/13/2012: Frank Zahn is a well-known name in North Dakota’s history. Zahn, also called Chief Flying Cloud, was born on May 4, 1890, to William Zahn, a man who served under Reno in Custer’s 7th Cavalry, and to an Indian Princess, Kezewin Flying Cloud, who was related to Sitting Bull. William Zahn had a trading post on the Standing Rock Reservation, and Frank Zahn was born in a tipi there.