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Wednesday, June 28, 2023 - Walhalla is celebrating its 175th anniversary over the July 4th holiday. We visit with Zelda Hartje of the Pembina County Historical Museum. ~~~ Poetry from Studio 47 comes to us from Patrick Hicks. Today he profiles poet Barbara Crooker. ~~~ Harvest Public Media’s Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco reports on funding that will help communities provide more green space. ~~~ An episode of Breaking Barriers, oral histories from the Red River Rainbow Seniors. ~~~ Natural North Dakota

Monday, June 19, 2023 - Today is Juneteenth, and it's also the day descendants of the Atlantic Slave Trade who live in Minnesota and the Dakotas can begin applying for grants to be used for wealth-building projects. Over the next eight years, the fund will award grants of $50,000 to at least 800 eligible applicants. Here to explain the who, the what and the why is the senior director of Nexus Community Partners, Danielle Mkali. ~~~ We learn about air quality monitoring at the Department of Environmental Quality from Ryan Mills. ~~~ Poetry from Studio 47 comes to us from Patrick Hicks, wri...

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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - From the UND Institute of Energy studies, we visit with senior research manager Nolan Theaker. ~~~ Chuck Lura shares a Natural North Dakota essay about landscaping and gardening with native plants. ~~~ Journalist Mona Gable joins us to talk about her book, Searching for Savanna. ~~~ "Poetry from Studio 47" profile on poet Bruce Roseland.

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - Kathryn Rand and Steven Light have been named 2023 Chester Fritz Distinguished Professors at UND. Their area of expertise is Indian gaming law and policy. They’ll be honored at Saturday’s commencement. They join us to discuss the work that led to this recognition. ~~~ Sanctified, is the western produced by Dan Bielinski of Bismarck with the assistance of a host of local talent. It’s being shown Thursday at the Arts Center in Jamestown, so we thought it would be a good time to repeat our conversation about the film. Filmmaker Bielinski is program chair of Dramati...