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Annie Prafcke is a journalist who was born in Wuhu Anhui Province in the People's Republic of China. She was adopted at six months old and raised in Fargo, ND. In her first podcast series Chinese Adoptees: Not Abandoned or Alone, she explores her own identity as well as the complex identities of three other adopted Chinese women.

Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Quassim Cassam, philosophy professor at the University of Warwick in the UK.

"Zola, a Detroit waitress, is seduced into a weekend of stripping in Florida for some quick cash -- but the trip becomes a sleepless 48-hour odyssey involving a nefarious friend, her pimp and her idiot boyfriend."

North Dakotans are no strangers to severe weather. On this date in 1912, the state was dealing with the aftermath of a devastating hailstorm. The Bismarck Daily Tribune reported, “The most disastrous hailstorm in years swept this section, destroying hundreds of acres of fine grain.”

Tuesday, July 13, 2021 - North Dakota native Nicole Rodenburg is currently based in New York City, working as an actor and filmmaker. As a director, her first feature film was selected for the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival. She joins us to discuss “Glob Lessons,” which involves a road trip through North Dakota! ~~~ The finalists have been selected for the North Dakota Leopold Conservation award. Today we visit with finalist “Brad Sand” of the Sand Ranch in Dickey County.

“Jerry Kelland started on his contract at the fire hall this week,” says the Langdon Courier Democrat of 18 January 1894. “He will put in a brick cistern of 1,000 barrels capacity. Dynamite was used in breaking up the frozen earth.”

Wednesday, July 7, 2012 - Arts and humanities activities are seeing some revitalization. Here with an update are Kim Konikow of the North Dakota Council on the Arts, and Brenna Gerhardt of Humanities North Dakota. ~~~ Susan Wefald joins us to discuss the National Votes for Women Trail. Markers are being set up across the nation, with several in North Dakota. Tomorrow a marker will be dedicated on the grounds of the Pembina State Museum to honor Ojibwa attorney Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin.

An impressive documentary about music and culture in 1969

Polio vaccinations were in full swing in the summer of 1955 in North Dakota. A team led by Dr. Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh developed the vaccine after years of philanthropy through the March of Dimes. Polio was the most dreaded disease of its time, and could paralyze and even kill children. The public welcomed Salk’s vaccine with open arms.

I suspect that when most people hear of Devils Lake they may think of all the tremendous fishing the lake provides. But do not forget that the Devils Lake area is a great place to observe the flora and fauna of our region as well.