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Dropping the Name of Jesus
Has this ever happened to you? You're at some religious function (I don't do these any more, but the memories are strong), and as part of an ice-breaking game, you're asked, "What three books would y...
Posted on 5/22/13 at 2:41 PM
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Pondering Public Art
I've recently returned from travels and I'm convinced that there is both a need and a benefit to public art. You ask, what's public art? Here, I'm talking about anything that is put on display in a pu...
Posted on 5/15/13 at 2:55 PM
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Old-School China = Bone-Breaking Pressure
In China around 1000 years ago, a unique trend began in the area of fashion, custom, and duty. Parents started to tightly wrap the feet of their young daughters so the feet wouldn't grow large. This b...
Posted on 8/4/12 at 8:29 AM
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What Do You Have?
I had been warned about signs like these before I arrived. In fact, I have seen signs like these in the past when I have been on the east coast because there are all kinds of properties on which other...
Posted on 8/1/12 at 7:00 AM
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When The Best Blows Into Town
Oh, to be the best at something. What must that feel like? Ill never know, but I console myself with this the best string quartet in the world performs here Nov. 17, and I will hear them. Will the mu...
Posted on 10/26/11 at 1:26 PM
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Cultural Center rising in N.D. town

A decade of planning for the High Plains Cultural Center is taking shape with a backbone of steel rising in the North Dakota town of Killdeer.

October 06, 2012

Final Arts Center Day of Culture is Saturday

Final Arts Center Day of Culture is Saturday This summer’s final Arts Center Days of Culture event — Bountiful Harvest — is Saturday, and the theme is one that’s prevailed all summer long. “The whole series has kind of been about harvestin and the harvesting traditions,” said Sally Jeppson, gallery manager. “We thought by August the ‘harvest’ would be more literal about what we encounter in the garden and the fields and what people do with the fruits of their labor.”

By Ben Rodgers , August 18, 2011

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Asian NDSU students show cultural changes

Some of Preetanjali Prasad’s aunts and uncles chose to have as many as five children each. “Four daughters and then a son, and then they stopped,” explained Prasad, a 20-year-old woman from India who attends North Dakota State University. “Five kids and they’re done, just because they were waiting for a son.”

By By Kristen M. Daum, Forum Communications Co. , May 17, 2011

Three Bismarck schools work on cultural institute

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Three Bismarck-area schools are planning to work together on a cultural institute.

November 01, 2010

Normanden featured in new book

For a few decades straddling 1900, a strong Norwegian subculture prospered throughout much of the northern United States, a subculture whose history was recorded and influenced by more than 280 Norwegian-language newspapers.

By By Chuck Haga , Forum Communications Co. , May 19, 2010

Indian culture being celebrated at UND

A weeklong event that celebrates American Indian culture is under way at the University of North Dakota. The 40th annual Time-Out and Wacipi ends with a three-day powwow that begins Friday. The event is sponsored by the Indian Studies Association at UND. All events are open to the public and most are free.

April 14, 2010

Agencies try to deal with teen marriage customs

The case is unusual: A Fargo father accused of trying to kidnap a 14-year-old Kentucky bride-to-be for his teenage son. But a variety of area agencies have contended for years with a custom among some local immigrants to marry daughters and sons very young. The practice springs from the culture of Roma immigrants from Bosnia and other Balkan countries.

September 24, 2009

Tibetan monks to share culture at Confluence Interpretive Center Aug. 26-30

The Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center near Williston will host a unique humanitarian project the week of Aug. 26 through Aug. 30. Two Tibetan Buddhist monks will be at the site creating an offering known as a sand mandala.

August 14, 2009

Other views: Heat up America’s melting pot

The American idea of being a melting pot has created a national dish spiced not by its citizens’ commonly held lifestyles and beliefs, but it’s given a rich flavor by our differences. The English, Irish, Scots, French, Norwegians, Swedes and Poles all became Americans. The slaves brought to the colonies became African Americans. The need to make a living gave all these different peoples common ground, as did the desire to own property and to be a free in a democratic nation.

By The Bismarck Tribune , July 23, 2009

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‘Echoes’ song, dance, stories

‘Echoes’ song, dance, stories “Echoes of Ireland — The Musical,” coming to the Jamestown Civic Center May 3, is an evening in a pub with the storytelling, music, singing and dancing of the Irish culture.

April 23, 2009

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