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Loving ode to bridge poets: The Unknown Bridge
The Month of Bridge Poets The month of dedicating our loving odes to bridge poets continue with another bridge poem that was discovered a few years ago. Unlike the previous post (which featured the...
Posted on 5/2/13 at 8:55 AM
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Remembering Oklahoma City
On April 19, 1995, at 9:02 a.m. CST, our nation experienced a profound tragedy in the terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City. Sixteen SSA employees and...
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Bunde's Exhibit Has it All - Come and Meet the Artist
Sometimes there are projects that just speak to people. Shelly Julian Bunde's exhibition does just that. She Left For Good One Time, But Came Backis an exhibit of tiny portraits and one-line stories o...
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Historical Snowstorms and Blizzards
I've written about the Children's Blizzard today, but decided to put it into Reprint because of the focus on history. I'm very glad that the blizzard we had over the weekend did not kill 250-500 peop...
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Faces of the Boom: Couple saves 102-year-old North Dakota schoolhouse
WILLISTON, N.D. Mark and Mary Pettersen could have built a conventional home near Williston. But the Pettersens are not conventional. The Forest Lake, Minn., couple who moved to Williston about 1 ...
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From the Past . . .

From the files of The Jamestown Sun... May 19 – May 25

May 20, 2013

Brown v. Board site to mark anniversary of ruling

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Brown v. Board of Education National Historic site will display a black doll used in a series of famous race studies to mark the 59th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that ended legal segregation in public schools.

By Associated Press , May 16, 2013

Fort Buford hosts Poet Laureate Woiwode

Dr. Larry Woiwode and his daughter Laurel Woiwode signed their latest books at Jamestown College in the Unruh-Sheldon Lobby in April and at Alfred Dickey Library a couple of weeks ago. Both events were well-attended. It was Woiwode’s 16th book and Laurel’s first. These two events were among the first weeks of their book signings and speaking appearances in North Dakota.

May 16, 2013

Sabir to speak on Kurdish people

Nam Sabir will speak on “The Kurdish People in Post War Iraq” at 7 p.m. today at the Barnes County Historical Society Museum in Valley City. The Kurdish people of northern Iraq are part of the largest ethnic group in the world without a country to call their own.

May 16, 2013

Women have more options for breast cancer surgery

CHICAGO (AP) — One of the world's most glamorous women had an operation that once was terribly disfiguring — removal of both breasts. But new approaches are dramatically changing breast surgeries, whether to treat cancer or to prevent it as Angelina Jolie just chose to do. As Jolie said, "the results can be beautiful."

By Marilynn Marchione, AP Chief Medical Writer , May 14, 2013

ND to develop list of 'culturally important' sites

North Dakota plans to compile a list of “culturally important” places that officials will protect from energy development or other disturbances.

May 13, 2013

From the Past . . .May 12 – May 18

May 13, 2013

Memorial museum meeting set Tuesday

The monthly meeting of the Stutsman County Memorial Museum is at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the museum. The public is welcomed to attend these meetings. Call Harold Sahr (952-0768) with any questions.

May 08, 2013

Frontier fort from Revolutionary War found in Ga.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Less than two months after British forces captured Savannah in December 1778, patriot militiamen scored a rare Revolutionary War victory in Georgia after a short but violent gunbattle forced British loyalists to abandon a small fort built on a frontiersman's cattle farm.

By Russ Bynum, Associated Press , May 05, 2013

Bill could lay foundation for Theodore Roosevelt library at DSU

Dickinson State University could be home to a new multimillion-dollar Theodore Roosevelt shrine. The North Dakota Legislature this week passed a Department of Commerce budget bill that allows a possible $6 million for the construction of a building on the DSU campus that would be called the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.

By By Bryan Horwath, Forum News Service , May 03, 2013

Smithsonian food exhibit coming

The Smithsonian exhibit “Key Ingredients: America by Food” is coming to the historic Opera House lobby in Ellendale, N.D. The exhibit opens Saturday and runs through June 16. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, and by appointment.

By By Sun Staff , May 03, 2013

Holocaust survivors, veterans gather at DC museum

WASHINGTON (AP) — Elderly survivors of the Holocaust and the veterans who helped liberate them are gathering for what could be their last big reunion at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

By Brett Zongker, Associated Press , April 29, 2013

From the Past . . . April 28-May 4

Republican Club Organized The Stutsman County Republican Club organized last night with forty-four members.

April 29, 2013

Hitler's food taster tells of poisoning fears

BERLIN (AP) — They were feasts of sublime asparagus — laced with fear. And for more than half a century, Margot Woelk kept her secret hidden from the world, even from her husband. Then, a few months after her 95th birthday, she revealed the truth about her wartime role: Adolf Hitler's food taster.

By Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press , April 26, 2013

Rush to repair WWI cemeteries as centenary nears

ZONNEBEKE, Belgium (AP) — The Tyne Cot cemetery sweeps gently down the slope, the nearly 12,000 headstones aligned in solemn rows of gleaming white. Beyond the walls stretch Flanders Fields, dotted by red farmhouse roofs. For the stage of some of World War I's worst carnage, the scene is tranquility itself — but over the whisper of wind floats a whine like a dentist's drill.

By Don Melvin, Associated Press , April 22, 2013

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