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6/26/2004: The town of Gackle is celebrating its Centennial this weekend.

6/28/2004: Today is the birthday of filmmaker Angela Murray Gibson. Nobody is certain what year she was born, because she refused to reveal her age, and her tombstone reveals only the year she died – 1953. Best guess is that she was born in Scotland around 1878.

7/1/2004: It was on this date in 1898 that Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders stormed Kettle Hill in Cuba, and then helped capture San Juan Hill.

7/5/2004: In 1939, Floyd Stromme made his debut as a pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, but his “first” debut happened eight years earlier as an adolescent playing for the Cooperstown Junior Legion baseball team.

7/6/2004: It was on this date in 1876 that the world learned what happened eleven days earlier at the Little Bighorn. Colonel Clement Lounsberry was credited with scooping what has been called “one of the greatest stories in American journalism” when he released his famous Bismarck Tribune “extra.” Actually, two other newspaper reports had been written within the previous two days – at Bozeman and Helena – but neither story was transmitted to the east coast.

7/8/2004: It was on this date in 1997 that CNN broke the news that the miracle combination of diet drugs known as fen-phen was causing leakage in users’ heart valves. What many don’t know is that the first person to figure it out was a cardiac sonographer at Fargo’s MertitCare named Pam Ruff.

7/11/2004: At least nine North Dakota towns are celebrating their centennials this year.

7/15/2004: The State Historical Society administers a good number of historic military sites throughout the state, many of which are small out-of-the-way spots that come with small brown road signs that point the way.

7/17/2004: The Ukrainian Cultural Institute in Dickinson was founded in 1981, and has since grown from 50 to 500 members from 26 states and Canada. The Institute has been celebrating its annual Ukrainian Festival this weekend.

Episode 33 features music from Hannah Yeun, Christian Jones, and folk duo Saelkie Folk; North Dakota musician and newspaper columnist Jessie Veeder; and a chat with Lesa Van Camp of Valley News and Views about the 1997 Red River flood.