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Sue Balcom is here for another segment of Main Street Eats with a conversation about pickles.

Friday, July 30, 2021 - Our monthly Journalist Roundtable with news director Dave Thompson features Jack Zaleski of Forum Communications, and Steve Andrist, former executive director of the North Dakota Newspaper Association. ~~~ Matt Olien reviews “Old,” a thriller from director M. Night Shyamalan.

In this thriller, going to the beach can age a person!

Sunday, August 1, 2021 A delegation from North Dakota recently traveled to Qatar and Turkey hoping to expand business opportunities for several state industries. Here to explain why those countries are of interest is Drew Combs, executive director of the North Dakota Trade Office.~~~ Minnesota author Brian Freeman returns to Main Street, this time to discuss “The Bourne Treachery,” the latest addition to the Jason Bourne series. This is the second Bourne novel by Freeman after being chosen to continue the very successful franchise created by the late Robert Ludlum.~~~ We get a sample of today’s Great American Folk Show in an excerpt that features Tama Smith of Prairie Fire Pottery in Beach.

Danielle Lincoln Hanna is the author of the Mailboat Suspense Series, set in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. She now lives in the Rocky Mountains of Montana, but was born in North Dakota and spent many of her formative years in the state. She joins us to discuss her writing, including her latest book in the Mailboat series, “The Shift in the Wind.” ~~~ The International Music Camp at the Peace Garden has been around for over 60 years, but the pandemic has interrupted the popular summer camp. So, this summer they went on the road. Bill Thomas visited with Jason Rygg, guest conductor, and Christine Bauman, the camp's co-director, during their stop at NDSU. ~~~ We get a sample of Sunday’s Great American Folkshow in an excerpt that features Tama Smith of Prairie Fire Pottery in Beach.

There are a lot of cottonwood tree leaves lying in an area on the Lake Metigoshe hiking and biking trail. All of them are green with a large round growth, or gall, on the leave stalk or petiole. It made me wonder what was going on. So I had to do a little investigating.

“It is important that we have conversations about our beloved state,” says Clay Jenkinson, introducing his book, The Language of Cottonwoods. “I love North Dakota with all my heart.”

Clay Jenkinson’s book, The Language of Cottonwoods, is a lot like my suitcase packed for a long research junket. You open it up, and all sorts of things pop out. Some of them are kind of loopy—on purpose, I suspect. They help to situate the more sober ones as propositions for serious consideration.

Medora was a thriving city in 1886, nestled in the Bad Lands of Dakota Territory, but a series of events including blizzards, market fluctuations and the loss of its main supporter, the Marquis DeMores, diminished its significance to all but a small number of businessmen and area ranchers.

Monday, July 19, 2021 - Capitol Shakespeare is back! They’ll be performing Julius Caesar in the Prairie Amphitheater on the Capitol grounds in Bismarck. Joining us to talk about the resumption of performances is artistic director Erin Weichel and visiting guest director Steve Grossman of Chicago’s Still Point Theatre Collective. ~~~ Chuck Lura talks about catbirds in another Natural North Dakota essay. ~~~ The Fargo Airsho is coming up this week. We get a preview from Mike Haugen as he visits with John Harris in an excerpt of the Prairie Pulse television show.