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4/30/2004: Today is Arbor Day, and that was the third verse from The Heart of a Tree by New York poet Henry Cuyler Bunner. The year before the poet’s death, this poem provided the opening for North Dakota Governor Allin’s Arbor Day Proclamation, signed on April 15th, 1895.

5/1/2004: On this day in 1885, the North Dakota Hospital For The Insane At Jamestown" was opened. Its corporate seal featured the three figures of Faith, Hope, and Charity, with the caption: "But The Greatest Of These Is Charity."

5/4/2004: On May 1st, 1942, Harold Schafer founded the Gold Seal Company, one of the state’s largest homegrown businesses.

5/5/2004: North Dakota is an absolute treasure for fans of feathered wildlife; in fact, there’s hardly a spot in the state that’s more than an hour away from some kind of wildlife refuge.

5/8/2004: One of the greatest ski jumpers in U.S. history lived in North Dakota. Today would be his 98th birthday.

5/13/2004: We’d like to dedicate this show to Everett Albers, who died April 24th of cancer. He was the Executive Director of the ND Humanities Council since its inception in 1973 until his death. He co-authored, with Jerome Tweton, the Humanities Council publication, “TR, Cowboys, Rough Riders and Our Boys in the Philippines,” which provided the information for this two-part story.

5/19/2004: Today is the birthday of Ho Chi Minh, who was born in 1890. Trained in the Soviet Union, he rose to become the communist ruler of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Today also marks the anniversary of the day in 1972 that Captain David Mott became a prisoner of war in Ho Chi Minh’s country.

5/23/2004: In 1910, A. M. Blackburn traveled from Winnipeg to visit his brother and buy a half section of land outside of Hansboro.

5/26/2004: Today is the birthday of Norma Egstrom, who was the seventh of eight children born into a Jamestown Scandinavian family in 1920. Her father worked for the Midland Continental Railroad.

5/27/2004: Yesterday we began the story of North Dakota native, Peggy Lee, who ultimately achieved top songwriter ratings from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.