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Iceland

  • Richard Beck was a teacher, scholar, writer, poet, and honorary North Dakotan. Beck was born on June 9, 1897, in Iceland. Unfortunately, his father passed…
  • One of the nice things about North Dakota is that you can drive three hours across the state to see a parade in a town of less than 100 population, and…
  • In 1878 Pastor Páll Thorláksson set out from the Gimli settlement in Manitoba, Canada, to find a new location for an Icelandic settlement. He traveled…