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4/17/2012: Charles McDonald was a well-known figure in North Dakota in the early 1900s. He was born in Faribault, Minnesota, on April 25, 1875, and came west of the Missouri in 1879 with his parents. They were among the first to take up a homestead west of the Missouri river.

4/21/2012: Carl Ben Eielson’s history-making 1928 flight over the North Pole in his orange Lockheed Vega was reported on this date in North Dakota papers, but another colorful flight made smaller, more hysterical than historical headlines in the state.

4/25/2012: A remarkable photograph was taken this spring date in 1865. That event was mere weeks after the Civil War and just days after the slaying of Abraham Lincoln.

4/30/2012: In 1903, N. P. Lindberg, “a cigar maker, with a green thumb,” founded a greenhouse in Rugby, North Dakota. The business stayed in the family for the next several decades, and in 1960, even after Lindberg’s death, four generations were involved in learning about it and running it – from Lindberg’s 89-year-old widow to his 7-year-old great grandchild.

5/17/2012: A traveling photo studio managed by a famous photographer might seem like an innovative idea even in contemporary times. Just imagine its attraction in 1886 Dakota Territory.

5/20/2012: After a forty-year battle in Congress, President Abraham Lincoln approved the Homestead Law on this date in 1862.

5/22/2012: On this date in 1955, residents of the northwest were talking about the previous night’s “world premiere” of a new song called “North Dakota.” The premiere played on television and radio across North and South Dakota, Montana and Minnesota.

5/24/2012: Springtime brings warm, sunny days and apple blossoms – and poets proclaim that love is in the air. Unfortunately, spring also heralds the arrival of houseflies, the pesky pests that imperil the health and well-being of young and old alike.

5/26/2012: The United States Supreme Court ruled in the case of the Quill Corporation v. the State of North Dakota on this date in 1992.

5/29/2012: Today marks the death date of James J. Hill, the railway magnate who took a great interest in building up North Dakota. He died in 1916. One of the ways he helped the state develop was by promoting diversification on farms. Wheat had been the foundation of Dakota agriculture, and Dakota wheat flowed to flour mills on Hill’s Great Northern Railway, bringing great wealth to President Hill.