Digital Ed Ayers at the University of North Dakota
Bill Caraher (r) introduces a digital Ed Ayers (l), streamed live from the University of Richmond to give a talk to the University of North Dakota. Yesterday in the late afternoon I found myself...
View ArticleHappy Mother’s Day
Vivian in the late-1910s on the Swedish-American farmstead just northeast of Bremen, Wells County, North Dakota. That is Vivian’s handwriting at the top of the photo too. It’s Mother’s Day (of course,...
View ArticleMemorial Weekend
Memorial Day weekend burger grill. It’s Friday evening and Molly and I are sitting on the living room futon which now faces west. It points us in the direction of a screen porch, and beyond this we can...
View ArticleD-Day 70th
It is June 5, 2014, which means it is one day away from the 70th anniversary of Operation Overlord, or D-Day. This also means that either this evening or tomorrow evening I’m going to fire up Tom Hanks...
View ArticleThe Welk Homestead
A couple weeks ago Molly and I, along with my parents, took a Sunday trip to the homestead of Lawrence Welk. To be more specific, this was the homestead of Welk’s parents in rural Emmons County,...
View ArticleCyprus Footage from 2012
While Bill (Caraher) blogged a bit on Punk Archaeology and PKAP today, in a separate but related sphere (parallel trajectories I call them), I stumbled across an audio-video short that David Pettegrew...
View ArticleDakota Language Update
This morning I have returned to selecting one Dakota word to learn, ideally every morning, the idea being to create for myself a type of vocabulary for unpacking more of the US-Dakota Wars. Language is...
View ArticleTeddy Roosevelt on Halloween in Dakota Territory
I’m looking at some of the original Teddy Roosevelt documents this evening from Bismarck, this provided by the glorious Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University in western North Dakota....
View ArticleVictorian Medallions in Downtown Bismarck
A 2014 photo of the southwest elevation of the Bismarck Auditorium (Belle Mehus). Yesterday I took a jaunt around downtown Bismarck to capture some images of historic buildings. Autumn has turned to...
View ArticleAmerican Western Memory and History
This Smithsonian link here is a good write up on a hard, sobering chapter in American western history. The Sand Creek Massacre, like the Whitestone Hill massacre (September 1863, northern Dakota...
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