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MAY/JUNE 1989
Utne Reader
PAGE 49
It's no secret that the
The fate of the earth
world's rain forests are rap-
idly disappearing. Biolo-
gists, anthropologists, and
depends on the fate
rock stars are all sounding
dire warnings about the en-
vironmental side effects of
further tropical deforesta-
of the trees
tion. What's less publicized
is the growing threat to
trees in all corners of the
planet. In China, the
world's worst forest fire re-
MARK N. MEAD, JOHN D. MANN & DAVID YARROW
cently ravaged 18 million
acres, and in Germany, the
SOLSTICE
waldsterben (forest die-
out) is spreading from the
Black Forest to other parts
WO summers ago, America was swept up in the tele-
of the continent. In New
I
vised high drama of congressional investigations
England, many observers
into the Iran-contra scandal. We took sides, cheered
believe that the maple
sugar industry is doomed.
and booed, singled out heroes and villains. A few
The editors of Solstice, an
months later, we were again spellbound by more
environmentalist maga-
zine allied with the macro-
geopolitical theater, as an arch-conservative American president
biotic foods movement, of-
reversed his past denunciations of an "evil empire" and offered
fer a guide to what we can
all do to save the trees and
a promise of peace with the Soviet Union. Once again, we sat
save humanity.
enthralled, analyzing this historic event from various perspec-
tives-of advocate, skeptic, or cynic. ||Unfolding at the same
time as these events was an even more significant drama-one
that did not grab any newspaper headlines until last year, and
PHOTO © 1982 BY DAVID J. CROSS
PAGE 50
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MAY/JUNE 1989
even then the attention was hardly proportionate to
est forest reserve and bringing new worries of en-
its epic dimensions.
croaching desertification. Yet even this terrible con-
Last summer, the century's most severe drought
flagration could not match the destructive scope of
led to the burning of Yellowstone National Park. By
the annual razing of the rain forest. In Brazil alone last
the summer's end, forest fires across the nation had
year, 27 million acres of forest fell to developers. In
laid claim to more than three million acres of forest-
fact, according to a report in Science News (April 9,
land, making it the fourth straight year of record-set-
1988), from 2 to 5 percent of the globe's surface is set
ting fire damage. A year earlier, as U.S. firefighters
aflame each year.
were preparing to pitch battle with a then-record two
We are losing our trees.
million acres of blazes, the largest spontaneous forest
Already more than half gone, the trees, respira-
fire in modern history charred 18 million acres in the
tory organs of the earth, are slashed and cauterized at
Black Dragon region straddling the borders of China
the rate of two acres per second. Yet few headlines
and the USSR, taking with it one-third of China's larg-
spoke the whole truth about the Greenhouse effect or
the drought of '88: The earth is gasping for breath.
Each year, more than 36,000 square miles of
What we're losing as the
tropical rain forest are cleared by slash-and-burn
methods-an area larger than half the state of Califor-
rain forests disappear
nia. According to the Rainforest Action Network, half
the world's five billion acres of rain forests are already
Tropical forests are located in some 70 countries,
gone; the rest could vanish in less than 40 years. This
but about 80 percent are in Bolivia, Brazil, Co-
devastation is commonly blamed on the "unfortunate
lombia, Gabon, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, Vene-
realities" of Third World economic conditions, par-
zuela, and Zaire. Rain forests are home to nearly
ticularly overpopulation and poverty. But in reality,
half of all the plants, animals, and insects in the
the great majority of rain forest lands are razed by for-
world. According to the World Wildlife Fund:
eign cattle, mining, and timber interests, irrespective
More species of fish live in the Amazon River
of Third World needs or benefits. Cattle raising takes
than in the entire Atlantic Ocean."
the biggest toll of all. Between 1966 and 1978, an area
Tropical plants produce chocolate, nuts,
the size of Maine was converted to 336 cattle ranches
tannins, fruits, gums, coffee, waxes, wood and
in the Brazilian rain forest under the direction of a
wood products, rubber and petroleum substitutes,
single developmental agency. All but a fraction of the
and ingredients found in toothpaste, pesticides, fi-
profits from rain forest destruction goes into the cof-
bers, and dyes.
fers of multinational corporations such as Nestle,
In addition, several medical wonders of the
Goodyear, Volkswagen, and Mitsubishi.
20th century have come from plants found only in
Brazil offers tax breaks and other economic in-
rain forests. Tropical plants have been used to
centives to foreign investors in cattle ranching. But
treat high blood pressure, Hodgkin's disease, mul-
what is good for Goodyear is not necessarily good for
tiple sclerosis, and Parkinson's disease. The tiny
Brazil. The tap of foreign investment may pour out a
periwinkle flower from the rain forest in Mada-
gush of quick capital, but as the land is rapidly
gascar is key to a drug that has been successfully
drained of fertility, the money spout runs dry. By
used to treat lymphocytic leukemia. And rain for-
1985, nearly all the cattle ranches established in Bra-
ests may hold the answer to treatment for several
zil's Amazon region prior to 1978 had been
types of cancer. A study of the Costa Rican rain
abandoned.
forest found that 15 percent of the plants exam-
ined were potential anti-cancer agents.
T
he despoiling of the rain forests, which is widely
"We are destroying the biological heritage
reported, represents only half the story. The
that developed over billions of years and doing it
plight of the trees is a global disaster, and the sit-
in the matter of a few human generations," says
uation in temperate zones is both more complex and
Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University. "Our descen-
less widely acknowledged. In Europe the Waldsterben
dants, if any, will be very much the poorer for it."
("forest death") has claimed more than half of Ger-
-Ellen Hosmer
many's celebrated Black Forest. As a German biolo-
Multinational Monitor
gist described it a year ago in Hamburg's Die Zeit
newspaper, "We should be talking about 'green death'
Excerpted with permission from Multinational Monitor
[not just 'forest death'], as the Swiss already refer to it
(June 1987). Subscriptions: $22/yr. (12 issues) from Multi-
national Monitor, Box 19405, Washington, DC 20036.
the entire ecosystem is in danger. Plants all around
Back issues: $2.50 from same address.
the Alps are dying, from trees to grass to moss."
Through willful silence or simply gross neglect,
the American press has largely avoided noticing our
CONTINUED
MAY/JUNE 1989
Utne Reader
PAGE 51
Yellowstone inferno: 1988 was the fourth consecutive year of record-breaking fire damage in U.S. forests.
PHOTO BY T. KITCHIN/TOM STACK & ASSOCIATES
PAGE 52
Utne Reader
MAY/JUNE 1989
Yet until recently the U.S. Forest Service was
The American press has
skeptical that pollution had any part in causing forest
die-offs. Finally, after a recent uproar in the scientific
largely avoided noticing our own
community over the Reagan administration's report
denying the hazards of acid rain, the American For-
dying forests.
estry Association acknowledged that the nation's trees
are indeed being harmed by various forms of
pollution.
own Waldsterben. Dr. Michael Oppenheimer, atmo-
spheric physicist of the Environmental Defense Fund,
says that "forests along the eastern seaboard are ex-
M
uch has been written recently about the
greenhouse effect. The term was coined in
periencing stress at high and low altitudes from the air
1896 by a Swedish chemist, Svante Arrhen-
pollution and climate extremes
What's going on
ius, who was concerned about the long-term plane-
indicates the natural environment is in very, very
tary implications of coal burning. It refers to the cur-
deep trouble due to air pollution."
rent phenomenon of planetary temperature increases
CONTINUED
Forest in southeast Alaska, for example, have lost
from 91 to 99 cents on the dollar during the 1980s. In
spite of a severely depressed timber market in the re-
gion, Forest Service engineers built roads and well-
appointed wilderness logging camps to the tune of at
least $40 million a year, to provide timber that no
one was very interested in buying. The agency
started out asking $1,000 per thousand boardfeet of
cedar. But the Louisiana-Pacific Corporation and Ja-
pan's Alaska Pulp Corporation-Tongass' exclusive
customers by 50-year contract-insisted they
couldn't pay that much. The price they finally settled
National Forest land in California after logging.
on was $1.22. Similarly, spruce went from an asking
price of $215 to $2.25.
Deforestation hits home:
In attempting to explain why the Forest Ser-
vice pays money to disrupt the environment, agency
U.S. Forest Service levels
officials often cite its lifelong friendship with timber-
dependent communities. Some 90 years ago the For-
our landscape
est Service began to invite mills to set up shop near
the national forests, and whole towns grew up. To
Year after year, regardless of which party controls the
this day, Forest Service planners base their manage-
White House, the U.S. Forest Ser vice runs its timber
ment decisions primarily on a skewed sense of obli-
program with indifference to the environmental
gation to locals.
consequences.
Such thinking ignores the rest of the American
And that's not the half of it. The government
people, each of whom owns an equal share in the na-
often sells the wood at a loss, sometimes an immense
tional forests. Federal law mandates that the Forest
one; in effect paying money to degrade the environ-
Service preserve endangered species' habitats, water
ment. It's not surprising that this agency consistently
quality, and backcountry recreation areas; nowhere
draws fire both from liberal environmental groups
does it require the agency to look out for local eco-
and from the conservative National Taxpayers
nomic interests.
Union.
-Karen Franklin
Between 1982 and 1987, the Forest Service's
The New Republic
timber-cutting losses totaled $2.4 billion, according
to congressional testimony by Barry R. Flamm, a
Excerpted with permission from The New Republic (Jan. 2,
former supervisor of the Shoshone National Forest
1989). ©1989, The New Republic, Inc. Subscriptions: $56/yr.
in Wyoming, now chief forester of the Wilderness
(48 issues) from The New Republic, Box 56515, Boulder, CO
80322. Back issues: $2.50 from 1220 19th St. NW, Washing-
Society. Timber sales from the Tongass National
ton, DC 20036.
PHOTO © 1986 BY DAVID J. CROSS
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PHOTOS (CLOCKWISE FROM UPPER LEFT) BY ROD PLANCK/TOM STACK & ASSOCIATES: ROD PLANCK/TOM STACK & ASSOCIATES: TOM
MAY/JUNE 1989
STACK/TOM STACK & ASSOCIATES: MARY CLAY/TOM STACK & ASSOCIATIATES
PAGE 54
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MAY/JUNE 1989
A burned-over rain forest in El Salvador, which suffers the most severe deforestation of any nation in the Western hemisphere.
as rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and other
play a "significant role" in slowing the CO2 buildup.
"greenhouse gases" (such as methane and fluorocar-
Cutting the deforestation rates by 50 percent in Brazil,
bons-CFCs) in the atmosphere trap more of the sun's
Indonesia, Colombia, and Ivory Coast-the leading
rays, much like the glass of an actual greenhouse.
contributors of deforestation-related CO2-could re-
The link between the greenhouse effect and for-
move nearly 20 percent of the carbon emissions from
est burning is all the more worrisome when we recall
all sources, including fossil fuels.
that huge tracts of rain forest are ravaged each year by
The relationship between deforestation and
global warming is even more interconnected than we
originally thought. For one thing, the greenhouse ef-
Two acres of trees are slashed
fect promotes the tendency for forests to catch fire. Re-
cent research at the University of Minnesota, tracing
and burned each second.
the year-by-year relationship between climate and fire
in Minnesota forests for the past 750 years, has found
a correlation between higher temperatures and in-
creased forest fire frequency. With the greenhouse
slash-and-burn methods. In a 1987 study, Brazilian
warming now in motion, forest fires have become
scientist Alberto Setzer reported that 500 million tons
more prevalent.
of carbon were released by the burning of Brazilian
But now some scientists are suggesting the
rain forest in 1987.
greenhouse effect may ultimately lead to a colder cli-
All of this amounts to a gargantuan release of
mate by evaporating more water, thereby causing a
greenhouse gases-and an upset in the crucial natural
thicker cloud cover that ultimately reflects more sun-
balance of CO2 and oxygen in our atmosphere. Trees,
light away from the earth. The fate of the trees also fig-
because of their tremendous photosynthesizing abil-
ures in this scenario. The net effect of runaway forest
ity, are one of the planet's primary ways of controlling
fires may contribute directly to a new Ice Age. Ac-
atmospheric CO2. "Reforesting the Earth," a recent
cording to reports in Science, smoke particles from
report from the Washington, D.C.-based Worldwatch
1987 Northern California forest fires created a self-
Institute, suggested that preserving tropical rain forest
perpetuating inversion layer that trapped a pall of
and mounting a large-scale reforestation effort could
smoke over the Klamath River canyon and sent tem-
PHOTO BY DONNA DECESARE/IMPACT VISUALS
MAY/JUNE 1989
Utne Reader
PAGE 55
America's trees under siege
The chestnut tree was one of the most glorious of all
insect and fungus is blamed for their loss.
the hardwoods found in the Eastern United States.
Now, as we approach the end of the century, yet
Its spreading crown provided shelter for many crea-
another major species, the sugar maple, is weaken-
tures; and its nuts supplied food for many more.
ing. Last year tiny insects called pear thrips defoli-
Early Americans prized the chestnut for its tough,
ated nearly 20 percent of Vermont's forests by suck-
beautiful wood, and its bark was used to tan hides.
ing sap out of tender spring leaf shoots. Further
The chestnut largely died out at the beginning of this
damaged by hot, dry weather, the sugar maple indus-
century, a victim of blight caused by a fungus. The
try suffered a poor harvest. Similar conditions
phrase, "under the spreading chestnut tree" was rel-
sharply reduced apple and pear crops in New En-
egated to the history of American culture.
gland this year. Even as I write, I learn the chestnut
At mid-century another major eastern hard-
blight has found a new victim: southern live oaks,
wood disappeared: the elm, a victim of Dutch elm
oldest living trees in the east:
disease (a combination of a bark-boring beetle and
-David Yarrow
fungus).
Solstice
Then, in the 1970s, foresters advised landown-
ers to cut down their beech and ash. These two
Excerpted with permission from Solstice: Perspectives on
majestic eastern hardwoods are also ailing, and the
Health & the Environment (Dec. 1988/Jan. 1989). Subscrip-
tions: $14.95/yr. (6 issues) from 1110 E. Market St., #16-E,
official word is to harvest them before their lumber
Charlottesville, VA 22901. Back issues: $3.50 from same
value deteriorates further. Another combination of
address.
peratures plummeting by an average of 27 degrees for
During the past year there has been a growing
one week. The study lends further credence to the nu-
discussion about Lovelock's "Gaia hypothesis,"
clear winter theory, which says that smoke resulting
which posits that our earth functions as a single living
from a nuclear war could block out sunlight and cause
organism. Our human body is a unified organism
a global freeze. But it may not take nuclear explosions
composed of billions of individual cells, each with in-
to create a nuclear winter.
dependent functions. So too, says Lovelock, the earth
can be seen as a single entity comprised of all life-
T
some, the notion of human civilization
forms, great and minute, which inhabit its surface.
mounting massive efforts to actually "do some-
First proposed in the late '60s and named after
thing about the weather," such as large-scale re-
Gaia, the Greek goddess of the Earth, the Gaia Hy-
forestation, is beyond imagination. But according to
pothesis grew out of Lovelock's observation that
British scientist James Lovelock, there is ample prec-
through hundreds of millions of years of geological evo-
edent for such behavior.
lution, the gases in the earth's atmosphere have re-
THE PACIFIC LUMBER COMPANY
THERE
ARE
NO
JOBS
A
DEAD
PLANET!
Earth First! protests deforestation of U.S. land at a Pacific Lumber Co. office in California.
PHOTO © 1988 BY DAVID J. CROSS
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by an increase in solar radiation or a massive meteor
The real issue is not what will
impact, then many life-forms will die and others will
flourish. Those that survive will modify the earth's
happen to the trees but what will
environment to keep conditions constant or restore
them to an equilibrium. Living organisms actually
happen to humanity.
control the earth.
Forests, together with oceans, are the primary
organ of Gaia to regulate the balance between carbon
dioxide and oxygen. They are the planetary equiva-
mained remarkably constant. He suggested that this
lent of our lungs. By breathing in they remove carbon
unlikely condition persisted because the earth itself
dioxide, and breathing out they replenish oxygen.
acts as a single organism to regulate the atmosphere.
Gaia, like our bodies, is blessed with the ability to heal
The critical gases that control the earth's cli-
itself.
mate are oxygen and carbon dioxide, the yin and yang
If oxygen in air declines, the fires of life will be
of the atmosphere. Oxygen has remained within a
extinguished. But according to Lovelock's thesis, if
range of 15 and 25 percent of the atmosphere for
this were to happen, living organisms would change in
nearly one billion years; today it is 21 percent. Carbon
order to bring oxygen back to normal levels. Or if OX-
dioxide has held steady at less than 1 percent. It is
ygen levels rise, the ecosystem would be engulfed by
largely carbon dioxide that, when operating at mod-
wildfire, dumping carbon back into the air and lower-
erate levels, maintains the warm temperatures neces-
ing oxygen levels.
sary for life. Without this heat regulation, oceans
On the other hand, if carbon dioxide rises, the
would soon freeze or boil, rendering the earth
planet surface overheats from the greenhouse effect.
uninhabitable.
But according to Lovelock, living organisms would
According to the Gaia hypothesis, plants, ani-
adapt to remove this greenhouse gas and store it as
mals, and insects are not passive passengers on space-
carbonates and biomass, thus lowering temperatures.
ship earth. Living organisms don't just react to con-
Our problem now is that the human species is creating
ditions, but act to maintain and change them, as do
an imbalance: Since 1958 the proportion of CO₂ has
the cells of the body, in order to maintain an optimum
risen 25 percent.
environment for life. If planetary conditions change,
Gaia must respond to correct that situation-
and doubtless will do so. The critical question for us is
this: Are we part of Gaia? The real issue is not what
will happen to the trees but what will happen to
humanity.
T
he Gaia hypothesis is still a highly controversial
theory. Yet the real debate is not among scien-
tists, but between scientists and environment-
minded religionists. To scientists, Gaia is a natural
mechanism. But to spiritually minded people, Gaia is
a living metaphor-no mere machine, but an earthly
mother endowed with mind and spirit.
Scientists tend to discount such spiritual no-
tions. Yet believers point out that the mechanistic
view of nature preached by modern science has its
own limitations in understanding a problem as vast as
our environmental predicament.
A prime example of this is how scientists look at
the forest. One expert studies only the roots of plants,
another the leaves; one looks only at soil chemistry,
another at the effects of pollution. The limitations of
this approach become obvious when we probe more
thoroughly into the bewildering complexity of a for-
est. Every forest is the outcome of an intricate chain of
events in climate, soil development, and many other
factors.
To understand the whole is the most formidable
task facing scientists as they strive to ascertain the ef-
PHOTO BY DAVID CAVAGNARO
MAY/JUNE 1989
fects of forest destruction on long-term climate trends
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dent José Sarney announced the suspension of tax
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that may threaten the environment." Sarney says he
made the decision after learning that Brazilian scien-
encourage an emphasis on soil preservation as an ag-
tists had counted more than 6,000 fires in a single day.
ricultural priority.
But policy and politics are not a driving force;
Conservation. There is no way around it: More trees
they are by nature reactive. Ultimately, it is the way we
will be cut. And this is as it should be-the judicious
choose to live, more than the words or deeds of agen-
use of harvested trees is a natural part of human
cies and public spokespeople, that will affect the fate
life as the consumption of harvested plant foods. The
of the trees.
issues are: How many trees should be cut? Which
In the United States, private groups such as the
ones? And how should they be used?
Rainforest Alliance, Rainforest Action Network, the
The CO₂-absorbing function of trees is active
Nature Conservancy, and the New Forests Project are
mostly during the process of early growth, because the
making significant strides in the growing effort to pre-
formation of the trunk fixes the most carbon. There-
serve what is left of the trees and their ecosystem. "In
fore older, mature trees that have little growth ahead
the past, many biologists thought it was almost un-
of them are the sensible choice for harvest. It is criti-
scientific to get involved in conservation politics,"
cally important that harvested trees are-not allowed
says Thomas Lovejoy, vice president of the World
to rot or burn, for the balance of the atmosphere re-
Wildlife Fund. "But no more."
quires that their fixed carbon stay fixed.
Essentially, three vital steps must be taken to
save the trees:
Reforestation. In China, every able-bodied citizen is
required to plant three to five new trees per year. In
Halt further deforestation. On a personal level, the
Queens, New York, the efforts of one man who "as a
most effective way to contribute is through your
kid
could never find a shade tree after a game of
choice of foods. The most well-known dietary action
stickball" has led to the planting of 7,000 new trees
is to refrain from consuming beef, and this is indeed a
and the establishment of what may be the largest con-
highly significant act. But it goes much further than
tinuing tree-planting program in New York City. In
this. The food supply system is one of the most pow-
Greenville, North Carolina, schoolchildren partici-
erful economic and ecologic forces of civilization, and
pate in programs that include learning about the sig-
mass changes in dietary pattern have a sweeping ef-
nificance of trees-including their impact on the
fect on planetary balance. Once you begin to consider
global climate-and planting them. Reforestation,
the ecological consequences of modern industrial ag-
whether on a national or personal scale, is an act of
riculture, it becomes clear that the way your foods are
global citizenship that literally plants the seeds of our
grown and processed is as important to your plane-
children's future.
tary body as to your personal body. In addition to
Excerpted with permission from Solstice: Perspectives
slowing the clear-cutting methods of modern farming,
on Health & the Environment (Dec. 1988/Jan. 1989).
exercising social concerns in your food purchases can
Subscriptions: $14.95/yr. (6 issues) from Solstice, 1110 E.
support a return to a more regionally based, less cash-
Market St., #16-E, Charlottesville, VA 22901. Back issues:
crop-based agricultural system, and in general help
$3.50 from same address.
The Themes of
North Dakota History
by
Elwyn B. Robinson
NONTH DAKOTA NORTH OF UNIVERSITY DAKOTA
civilization
SEVENTY. Y-FIFTH 1883 ANNIVERSANT
Department of History
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota
NORTH DAKOTA STATE LIBRARY
BISMARCK
R623x
THE THEMES OF NORTH DAKOTA HISTORY
By Elwyn B. Robinson*
As thoughtful people we are always seeking to understand the world
about us. One way is the observation of patterns, of the recurrence of
somewhat similar events. Recurrence may reveal fundamental relation-
ships or truths. In science these are natural laws; in mathematics they
are formulae; in studies like economics they may be called principles.
Much of art is also pattern. In history, as in music, we may call the
patterns themes. Historical themes are patterns of many events.
If we can tie the events of North Dakota history to a handful of
broad themes, we shall be able to see its patterns. This is what I am
attempting to do: to relate the events of North Dakota history to a
handful of themes. Perhaps the attempt will give us a stronger grasp
of the realities that we face in North Dakota, and help us adjust our
institutions to the realities in a way that will give us a richer life.
I want to answer these questions: What are the great themes of
North Dakota history? How are they related to each other? How are they
tied to the fundamental facts about the state?
I need to begin with some preliminaries. The themes of North Dakota
history are not, can not be, unique. The state is a part of the nation.
The themes of our national history -- nationalism, democracy, seculariz-
ation, urbanization, industrialization, and emergence as a world power --
are reflected in events in the state. North Dakota was once a frontier;
Frederick Jackson Turner's themes of frontier history are, of course,
seen in the history of the Dakota frontier. North Dakota is a part of
the Great Plains. The themes of the Great Plains, so brilliantly analyz-
ed by Walter Prescott Webb and Carl Frederick Kraenzel, are also import-
ant in North Dakota. 1 All who think about the western country have been
influenced by the writings of Turner, Webb, and Kraenzel.
What are the great themes of North Dakota history? Let me name them:
first, remoteness; second, dependence; third, radicalism; fourth, a
position of economic disadvantage; fifth, the Too-Much Mistake; and, sixth,
adjustment to the imperatives of a cool, subhumid grassland.
*Dr. Robinson is professor of history at the University of North
Dakota. The article is a revision of an address read on November 6, 1958,
at the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Conference of the University.
1
Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History (New York,
1920); Walter Prescott Webb, The Great Plains (Boston, 1931); Carl Fred-
erick Kraenzel, The Great Plains in Transition (Norman, Oklahoma, 1955);
Walter Prescott Webb, The Great Frontier (Cambridge, Mass., 1952). These
books are great landmarks in the thinking about the West; I am applying
some of their ideas to the history of North Dakota. I also owe much to
NORTH DAKOTA STATE LIBRARY
BISMARCH
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By remoteness I mean the influence of the great distance between
North Dakota and the chief centers of population, industry, finance, cul-
ture, and political decision in the nation and in the Western World. The
word dependence stands for North Dakota's status as a colonial hinter-
land. Radicalism is a term for the struggle against that status. The
position of economic disadvantage refers both to the wide fluctuations in
North Dakota's income and to the lower-than-average per capita income that
North Dakota as an agricultural state has generally received in good times
and bad alike. The Too-Much Mistake is my name for too many farms, too
many miles of railroads and roads, too many towns, banks, schools, col-
leges, churches, and governmental institutions, and more people than op-
portunities numbers of all that history shows have been far beyond the
ability of the state to maintain. Adjustment means both the painful cut-
ting back of the oversupply of the Too-Much Mistake and the slow forging
of more suitable ways of living in a subhumid grassland.
All the themes are tied to the most fundamental facts about the state:
its location at the center of the continent, its cool, subhumid climate,
and the climatic differences between the eastern and western parts of the
state. The influence of these facts is seen in every aspect of North Dakota
history.
They are the base for its great themes. Location at the center of the
continent accounts for the theme of remoteness. Though the reasons may not
be readily apparent, I believe that the location of the state and its cool,
subhumid climate made North Dakota a colony of the Twin Cities -- the theme
of dependence, gave the state its position of economic disadvantage, and
created the conditions out of which radicalism and the Too-Much Mistake
developed. The theme of adjustment means adaptation of institutions --
that is, the ways of life -- to the conditions imposed by the subhumid
grassland.
Through every theme runs a most persistent pattern of difference be-
tween eastern and western North Dakota, based upon climate but seen every-
where -- in plant and animal life, in farm size and income, in farm organ-
izations, in the voting record, and in the temper and character of the
people. With less rain, western North Dakota is more isolated, more sparse-
ly settled, more dependent, and more radical than eastern North Dakota. In
the west the Too-Much Mistake was more immediately serious and adjustmnets
to the subhumid grassland were more imperative.
masters' theses and doctoral dissertations and to my colleagues Professors
Louis G. Geiger and Robert P. Wilkins. A recent stimulating article is
Walter P. Webb, "The American West: Perpetual Mirage," Harper's Magazine,
Vol. 214 (May, 1957), pp. 25-31.
'Differences in land use are shown in Fred R. Taylor, C. J. Heltemes,
and R. F. Engelking, North Dakota Agricultural Statistics, North Dakota
Agricultural Experiment Station and U.S. Agricultural Marketing Service,
Bulletin 408 (Fargo, June, 1957), pp. 10-13. This valuable booklet is
hereafter cited as North Dakota Agricultural Statistics. There is much
data by counties and divisions of the state in North Dakota Crop and Live-
stock Reporting Service, North Dakota Crop & Livestock Statistics, 1957
(Fargo, April, 1958); a map on p. 8 shows that April-September precipita-
tion (40-year average) ranges from 10.75 inches in Williams County to 15.95
inches in Richland County. The counties in the eastern half of the state
averaged 13 or more inches of rainfall in the growing season; the counties
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Now I wish to trace each of the six themes, in turn, through the
course of North Dakota history. Let us begin with remoteness. There are
many illustrations of its influence. North Dakota Indians were late in
getting the horses which spread slowly northward from Spanish sources in
Mexico. The first white explorers came to North Dakota considerably later
than they did to the lands to the north, east, and south. The fur traders
opened the Indian trade in the state at a relatively late date. Farming
settlement began late, in the 1870's, and the greatest influx of settlers
did not come until the first decade of this century. Remoteness has also
long been a part of the unfavorable image of the state held by outsiders.
More fundamental, remoteness has always meant high transportation costs
for North Dakota, and SO it is one of the chief reasons for the lack of
manufacturing in the state. 3 Remoteness, therefore, not only helped to
make North Dakota a colonial hinterland, but also has kept it in that status.
As a hinterland North Dakota is, and always has been, dependent upon
outside centers of finance, trade, and manufacturing and hence subject to a
real degree to their control. This is the second great theme of its history.
Colonial status began with the Indian trade. The Indians quickly be-
came dependent upon the products of a superior white technology -- guns,
knives, axes, kettles, and cloth. They welcomed the traders, sometimes
bursting into tears of joy at their approach. The blacksmiths of the Lewis
and Clark expedition, busily forging battleaxes for the Mandans and mend-
ing their guns, became great favorites with them. Even when the Indians
secretly felt hostility toward the traders, they professed friendship be-
cause the white man's goods had become necessary to them.
4
Need placed them under the control of the traders. Actually the
Indians were sending their furs to distant markets across the Atlantic.
But their access to the markets was in the hands of the traders. When
Lewis and Clark, for example, wished to assert control over the Indians of
the Upper Missouri, they told them that if they did not listen to the words
of the Great Father in Washington, he would stop the traders from coming
up the river to them. The Great Father would not let them "have any more
good guns etc. ..5
in the western half from 11 to nearly 13 inches. There is a wealth of
valuable data in Frank J. Bavendick, Climate and Weather in North Dakota
(Bismarck, 1952). A map in Harold V. Knight, Grass Roots: The Story of
the North Dakota Farmers Union (Jamestown, 1947), p. 70, shows that the
Farmers Union in 1947 was, with some exceptions, more strongly organized
in the western counties than in the eastern counties. William E. Koenker,
"Changes in North Dakota Agriculture, 1950-1954," North Dakota Business
(University of North Dakota), II, No. 5 (May, 1956), shows a substantial
variation in income from farms among the different counties of the state.
3 Allan Filley, "Economic Impact of the St. Lawrence Seaway," North
Dakota Business, IV, No. 2 (Jan., 1958), p. 4.
4
Eliot Coues (ed.), New Light on the Early History of the Great North-
west (3 vols.; New York, 1897), I, 264.
5 Elwyn B. Robinson, "Lewis & Clark--the North Dakota Phase, " North
Dakota 10-11. Quarterly (University of North Dakota), XXIV (Winter, 1956), 8,
After the Indian trade died, the North Dakota prairies were settled
by white pioneers through the efforts of the flour millers, traders, fin-
anciers, and railroad promoters of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The flour
mills called for more and more hard spring wheat. The railroad builders
threw the steel tracks westward and brought in the settlers: the spring
wheat country was born a colonial hinterland to the Twin Cities.
Its people were far more dependent than the Indians on the products
of the factories of the eastern United States and western Europe. Their
Wheat, like the Indians' furs, had to reach distant markets; access to the
markets was controlled by middlemen -- the owners and managers of the rail-
roads, the flour mills, the lines of elevators, the grain exchanges, and
the banks which furnished credit for the whole complex operation.
The railroads were the key. Organized by outsiders and built by out-
side capital, they boomed the new spring wheat country. They founded and
named towns. They controlled the appointments of territorial officials,
sent men to the territorial legislature, and, to retain their influence,
delayed statehood. 7 Martin N. Johnson, later to be a North Dakota Con-
gressman, told the state constitutional convention in 1889 8 that the Great
Northern "controls everything in our part of the country.
The Northern Pacific was also powerful. The federal government had
given it over ten million acres (10,697,490) of land in North Dakota or
23.7 per cent, nearly a fourth, of the large state. No railroad owned so
large a proportion of any other state. 9 To look after its interests in
North Dakota the Northern Pacific selected Alexander McKenzie, a young
semi-literate Scotch-Irish railroad construction worker. A natural leader
of men, McKenzie was to be for a generation the most influential political
leader in North Dakota -- both the symbol and reality of outside control.
His first great success was the removal of the territorial capital from
Yankton to Bismarck, on the Northern Pacific's main line, in 1883. Until
about 1909 he strongly influenced the selection of state officials and the
course of legislation in North Dakota. Though the title exaggerated his
6A notable description of the fundamentals is given by Paul R. Fossum,
The Agrarian Movement in North Dakota ("Johns Hopkins University Studies
in Historical and Political Science, Vol. XLIII, No. 1; Baltimore, 1925),
pp. 28-31; see also Henrietta M. Larson, The Wheat Market and the Farmer
in Minnesota ("Columbia University Studies in History, Economics, and Publi
Law, Vol. CXXII, No. 2; New York, 1926).
7
Howard Roberts Lamar, Dakota Territory, 1861-1889: A Study of Frontit
Politics (New Haven, 1956), pp. 190-93, 209-10, 241.
8
Official Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of North Dakota
(Bismarck, 1889), p. 425.
9 Robert S. Henry, "The Railroad Land Grant Legend in American History
Texts, " Mississippi Valley Historical Review, XXXIII (Sept., 1954), p. 194.
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influence, in common talk he was the "boss of North Dakota"; his suite in
the Merchants' Hotel in St. Paul was called the " throne room. When he
died in 1922, a millionaire, his funeral was held at the state capitol in
Bismarck, the scene of his many triumphs. 10
A striking example of Northern Pacific influence occurred in the state
constitutional convention of 1889. Henry Villard, chairman of the Northern
Pacific board of directors, had a constitution for North Dakota secretly
prepared by Professor James Bradley Thayer of the Harvard Law School. The
Thayer draft, its origin still a secret, was introduced in the convention;
the constitution of the state as finally adopted is identical in many places
with the Thayer draft. The fact that the Thayer draft was a model constitu-
tion providing for state control of railroads and other corporations does
not change the significance of the incident -- outside interference by a
corporation owning nearly a fourth of the state. 11
All states are influenced, even controlled, by governmental decisions
made in Washington. If North Dakota differs in any way in this, it is be-
cause it has had a smaller voice in the decisions than the more populous
and powerful states.
In the Louisiana Purchase (changing the sovereignty of the land), in
the establishment of military posts upon its soil, and in its long years
as a territory, North Dakota was the plaything of outside forces. More
recently it, as well as the other states, has been greatly influenced by
participation in two world wars, by the massive federal relief expenditures
of the 1930's, by federal highway construction funds, by Missouri Basin
development, by federal rural electrification work, and by federal farm
and conservation programs. These facts, of course, show interpendence as
well as dependence. In North Dakota, as in the other states, much of the
progress, as well as less desirable developments, is intimately related to
the fact that it is a part of the United States. In the same way progress
and decay in the United States is related to the fact that it is a part of
Western civilization.
But North Dakota has long been and still is a colony in other ways.
Outside corporations own many banks and some newspapers in the state. 12
Thousands of North Dakotans read the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune. More
fundamental, North Dakota produces raw materials--wheat, cattle, flaxseed
and so on--for outside markets; North Dakota imports from other states most
of the comforts and necessities of life. Like all raw-materials-producing
regions, it cannot control either the market in which it sells or that in
which it buys. 13
10 Kenneth J. Carey, "Alexander McKenzie" (unpublished M.A. thesis, Uni-
versity of North Dakota, 1949), passim; Lamar, p. 216.
11
Clement A. Lounsberry, Early History of North Dakota (Washington, D.C.,
1919), p. 398-99. In 1885 Theodore Roosevelt drew up in New York City the
bylaws of the Little Missouri River Stockmen's Association (Ray H. Mattison,
"Roosevelt and the Stockmen's Association," North Dakota History, XVII
(April, 1950), 89).
12 Country banks in North Dakota regularly borrowed from the Twin City
banks. Later many of the larger banks in North Dakota became affiliated
with the Northwest Bank Corporation, controlled by the Northwestern Nation-
al Bank in Minneapolis, or the First Bank Stock Corporation, controlled by
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It is true, of course, that the grain trade and the flour milling in-
dustry of the Twin Cities and the outside world needed, and still needs,
North Dakota's hard spring wheat, just as North Dakota needed, and still
needs, the goods and services of the Twin Cities and the outside world.
They were and are interdependent, as colony and metropolis have always and
everywhere been interdependent. But perhaps the word "interdependent" im-
plies an equality of status in the relationship that did not exist between
North Dakota and the Twin Cities, any more than it did between other colonies
and their metrapolises. A metropolis is largely the central place of power
and decision; a colony largely an outlying region of relative weakness and
subordination. I believe, then, that "dependence" is a better word for the
relationship than "interdependence." For many years Minnesota law regulat-
ed the grain markets in which North Dakota's wheat was sold; North Dakota
was long a suppliant, begging for fair treatment in those markets. In 1905,
for example, the North Dakota legislature asked the Minnesota legislature
to pass a law requiring purchasers of grain to pay for dockage; the Minnesota
legislature refused. 14
With dependence and outside control--the central aspects of colonial
status--went exploitation, and exploitation created radicalism--the third
great theme of North Dakota history. North Dakota radicalism, proof itself
of colonial status, was an attack upon the middlemen - or as they were
commonly called, the "interests" - who stood between the farmer and his
market. It was a revolt against exploitation, a struggle to change the
status quo, or more simply, a determined effort to get a fair price for
wheat.
by the stockholders of the First National Bank of St. Paul and the First
National Bank of Minneapolis (William E. Koenker, "Banking Trends in North
Dakota, 1922-1947" /"unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University,
Columbus, 1949 7, pp. 111-13; Charles S. Popple, Development of Two Bank
Groups in the Central Northwest /"Cambridge, Mass., 1944 11.
13 James W. Beck, "The Post-War North Dakota Economy," North Dakota
Business, V, No. 1 (Oct., 1958), 1.
14
Robert H. Bahmer, "The Economic and Political Background of the Non-
partisan League" (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of History,
University of Minnesota, 1941), pp. 220-74, esp. 249. Duluth and Superior
were also important to North Dakota but did not have nearly the importance
of the Twin Cities. In occupying a colonial status North Dakota shares
the experience of most regions. For centuries the Americas were colonies
of Europe, subject to decisions in Madrid, Paris, or London. Within the
United States the South was long subject to Northern centers of industry,
trade, and finance; the Erie Canal and then the railroads made much of the
region about the Great Lakes a hinterland of New York City; the Twin Cities
themselves were, of course, subordinate to New York and Chicago. As North
Dakotans went hat in hand to James J. Hill, SO Hill went hat in hand to
J. P. Morgan.
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Perhaps the very first expression of resentment against outside ex-
ploitation was seen in the attitude of some of the Indians toward their
traders. Alexander Henry's favorite adjective for his Indian customers
was "insolent. 1115 But the first organized expression of revolt against
exploitation was the formation of the Dakota Farmers Alliance in the early
1880's.16 The Alliance sought, according to its constitution, "protection
against
the encroachments of concentrated capital.' Its slogan was
a "free market." It failed in its effort to build a terminal elevator in
Minneapolis, tried co-operative purchasing and insurance with some success,-
and agitated against railroad and grain-elevator abuses. The Alliance went
into politics, formed the Independent party, and elected many legislators
and, in 1892, a governor. But its legislative efforts against exploitation
were a failure; generally the laws it secured were defective; sometimes
they were stolen after their passage but before the governor could sign them.
This was a scandalous but common maneuveur by the McKenzie machine--the un-
scrupulous minions of the "interests" exploiting the state. 17
The Farmers Alliance and the Independent party died, but radicalism
persisted. In 1906 a combination of Democrats and progressive Republicans
overthrew the McKenzie machine by electing "Honest John" Burke as governor.
They re-elected Burke twice, and in 1909 the legislature enacted a broad
progressive program. 18
In 1915 the Nonpartisan League took up the battle against exploitation
by the "interests," or "Big Biz" as they were pictured in the League car-
toons. In 1918 the League gained complete control of the state government.
Its platform, enacted to bring a "New Day" to North Dakota, launched the
state upon a program of state socialism with a state-owned bank with a farm
mortgage department, a state mill and elevator, a state-owned home building
15coues, I, 105, 251.
16 Strong resentment at colonial status had been expressed earlier. In
1877 the Yankton Press and Dakotaian exclaimed: "We are so heartily dis-
gusted with our dependent condition, with being snubbed at every turn in
life, with having all our interest subjected to the whims and corrupt acts
of persons in power that we feel very much as the thirteen colonies felt
when they flung away their dependent condition and asserted their position
among nations" (quoted in Lamar, p. 205). When a leader stirred up a revolt
in Egypt, the Grand Forks Herald, Dec. 13, 1882, expressed its sympathy with
a local twist: "Arabi Pasha feels like a Dakota patriot. He was oppressed
by carpet-baggers, and assigns it as the principal cause of his rebellion.
He howls, ... and there is a grand army of Dakota victims who can come in
with 'amens'' (Note from Dr. Robert P. Wilkins).
Glenn L. Brudvig, "The Farmers' Alliance and Populist Movement in
North Dakota (1884-1896)" (unpublished M.A. thesis, Department of History,
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, 1956) covers the subject thoroughly.
18 Charles N. Glaab, "The Revolution of 1906--N.D. vs. McKenzie,' North
Dakota Quarterly, XXIV (Fall, 1956), pp. 101-109; Charles N. Glaab, "John
Burke and the North Dakota Progressive Movement: 1906-1912" (unpublished
1952). M.A. thesis, History Department, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks,
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association, and a state hail insurance plan. 19 North Dakotans opposed
entry into the First World largely because war seemed to mean profits for
the hated interests. 1120
Since 1921, when the Nonpartisan League lost control of the state
government, a series of organizations have led the fight against outside
exploitation. Through most of the 1920's the North Dakota Wheat Growers
Association sought a fair price for the farmer through wheat pools. In
the 1930's the more militant North Dakota Farmers Union and the Farm Holiday
Association became active, and William Langer revived the Nonpartisan
League. Langer's moratorium on farm debts was important, but probably the
greatest successes were achieved by the Farmers Union with the passage of
anti-corporation farming and anti-deficiency judgment laws and the growth
of its co-operative elevator and oil companies. The Farmers Union was more
successful in organizing the farmers in North Dakota than in any other state.
From 1941 to 1957 the number of stockholders in co-operatives in North
Dakota increased three-fold and the amount of business transacted four-fold.
In 1957 North Dakota co-operatives transacted over $283,000,000 worth of
business, a sum equal to about half of the annual cash farm income of the
state. 21 The growth of co-operatives is the result of a determined effort
by North Dakotans to control the markets in which they buy and sell. It
is now the most important expression of the theme of radicalism.
Many North Dakota conservatives and businessmen believe that there is
a threat to their own businesses and to free enterprise in general in the
growth of Farmers Union co-operatives. But throughout the history of the
state all classes have beeen influenced or infected by the spirit of radical-
ism. In North Dakota even the conservatives have been liberal and progres-
sive in their outlook. Rich and poor, businessmen, professional men, and
farmers--all have taken part in movements against outside exploitation.
A roster of the active leaders in the battle illustrates the point.
George Winship was the editor and owner of the Grand Forks Herald; John Burke
was a well-paid attorney of Devils Lake; Asle J. Gronna a wealthy businessman
of Lakota; Eli Shortridge and John Miller successful farmers; Edwin F. Ladd
a professor of chemistry at the Agricultural College; Charles Fremont Amidon
a federal district judge. Winship long preached Robert M. La Follette's
reforms in the Herald; the progressives made Burke governor three times;
Gronna, though first sent to Congress by the McKenzie machine, became a
close associate of the radical La Follette in the Senate. The Alliance made
Miller and Shortridge governors. Ladd crusaded tirelessly against exploita-
tion through adulteration by manufacturers and fought for wheat grades based
on protein content. Amidon powerfully aided Ladd and the radical cause in
general by his court decisions.
19 Robert L. Morlan, Political Prairie Fire: The Nonpartisan League,
1915-1922 (Minneapolis, 1955).
20
Robert P. Wilkins, "North Dakota and the European War, 1914-1917"
(unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of History, West Virginia Uni-
versity, Morgantown, 1954).
21
N.D. Department of Agriculture and Labor, Division of Cooperatives,
Sixteenth Annual Statistical Report, 1957, p. 15.
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For years the whole state seethed with anger at the cheating practices
of the grain trade, at the extortionate interest rates charged by money
lenders, at the high freight rates and ruthless tactics of the mighty rail-
road corporations. In 1887 the Right Reverend William D. Walker, Episcopal
bishop of North Dakota, was SO infected by the radical spirit of the time
that he referred to bankers as "human vampires" in an address to a church
convocation. 22
In such an emotional climate of opinion persons usually thought of as
conservatives made valuable contributions to the revolt against outside
exploitation. James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern, liked to
boast of his repeated voluntary railroad rate reductions. In 1906 the North
Dakota Bankers Association began an investigation of the grain trade which led
led to the proposal for a state-controlled terminal elevator. 23 Rangvold
Nestos, elected governor by opponents of the League in 1921, completed the
construction of the State Mill and Elevator. It was the conservative gover-
nors George Shafer, John Moses, and Fred Aandahl who made a financial success
of that experiment in state socialism. George Duis, wealthy Grand Forks
businessman, started the North Dakota Wheat Growers Association. The Fargo
Chamber of Commerce led the fight for lower railroad rates in the famous
Fargo Rate Case of 1925, and the Greater North Dakota Association, a union
of conservatice business interests, has also helped to secure very import-
ant rate reductions. 24 The North Dakota Bankers Association has repeatedly
won national recognition for its members' work in promoting the well-being
of the farmers.
Such efforts came from the universal recognition of the necessity of
raising and stabilizing the income of North Dakota. Throughout its history
the state has occupied a position of economic disadvantage. Economic dis-
advantage, the fourth great theme of North Dakota history, is the result of
two facts: the subhumid nature of the country and the dominance of agri-
culture in the state's economy. In common with most raw-materials-producing
regions, it suffers from a relatively low income. The plain but disagreeable
fact is that farmers are not so well compensated for their efforts as are
men in other occupations.
22protestant Episcopal Church, Missionary District of North Dakota,
Journal of Convocation, 1887, p. 31, in a note from Dr. Robert P. Wilkins
who is writing a history of the Protestant Episcopal Church in North Dakota
to be published in May, 1959. Bishop Walker said in part: "You and I know
how thoroughly this whole territory is loaded with mortgage; how merchant,
farmer, professional man, mechanic, politician, is at the mercy of shy-lock
money-loaners who, by a pleasing fiction, are called bankers. You know how
men are straining every nerve to pay ruinous interest and bonuses; how
families are comfortless and homes are ragged and hearts are weary, because
these human vampires have fastened themselves on the very hearth-stones."
23 Bahmer, pp. 243-64.
(Oct., 1940), p. 3, has a valuable summary of fourteen rate cases brought
24 North Dakotan (Greater North Dakota Association, Fargo) XV, No. 10
by business organizations since 1930. It stated that these reductions had
saved North Dakota $125,946,226, and boasted that business men had saved
the state these millions while the "professional saviors of the farmer" were
only making promises.
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In 1954, for example, about 55 per cent of North Dakota farm families
had a net cash income of less than $2,500, or less than enough for a minimum
satisfactory American standard of living. In 1950 40.5 per-cent of all
families and unrelated individuals in North Dakota had incomes of less than
$2,000; a larger percentage of farm families than urban families were in this
group. In 1955 the net farm income in North Dakota per farm, after the
deduction of operation expenses, was $2706.25 Since an average of two persons
worked on each farm, the average net income per farm worker was only $1353.
This was about what farm workers earned in other states but it was only a
third of the average income received in the nation by workers in manufacturing,
transportation, wholesale trade, finance, and public administration. 26 The
difference in income is a shocking fact of the greatest importance in the
history of North Dakota--the most agricultural state in the nation.
Besides this constant economic disadvantage, North Dakota has suffered
from wide fluctuations in crop yields (often caused by drought), wide fluctu-
ations in farm income. The wheat yield has ranged from a low of 19,235,000
bushels in 1936 to a high of 156,321,000 bushels in 1944; wheat prices from
a low of $0.36 a bushel in 1932 to a high of $2.53 in 1947; cash farm income
from a low of $60,729,000 in 1932 to a high of $704,366,000 in 1948. 27
As these statistics suggest, the theme of economic disadvantage runs
through the North Dakota story. To a considerable extent the history of the
state is the history of hard times. When the nation has suffered from de-
pression, North Dakota has usually suffered more intensely. But when the n
nation has prospered, North Dakota has not always shared in the prosperity.
The Indians and the fur traders lived a life in which feasting and starving
alternated rapidly. When the agricultural settlers came in the early 1870's,
grasshoppers soon ate up the crops and a national depression stopped rail-
road construction and settlement. The Great Dakota Boom (1879-86) ended with
drought, poor crops, poor prices, and the exodus of many discouraged people.
The hard times lasted from 1886 to 1899 when the second boom began.
The golden 1920's, prosperous in the nation, were in North Dakota a
time of modest yields, poor wheat prices, wholesale bank failures, and the
loss of many farms by foreclosure. In the terrible 1930's North Dakota
reeled from a one-two punch of drought and depression: a third to a half of
the population was on relief; thousands lost their farms; in 1933 the per
capita personal income was $190 or only slightly more than half the national
average of $368. The greatest prosperity the state has ever known began in
25 William E. Koenker, "Changes in North Dakota Agriculture, 1950-1954",
North Dakota Business, II, No. 5 (May, 1956); U.S. Bureau of Census, United
States Census of Population; 1950, Vol. II, General Characteristics, Part 34,
North Dakota, p. 25; North Dakota Agricultural Statistics, p. 76.
26 U.S. Bureau of Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States,
1957, p. 315.
27 North Dakota Agricultural Statistics, pp. 17, 71, 79.
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1942, but only once in these prosperous years (1947) has the per capita
personal income in the state been above the national average Often it has
been only about two-thirds of that level. 28
Low and fluctuating income made the fifth great theme, the Too-Much
Mistake, all the more serious. This theme, like the position of economic
disadvantage, is tied to the fact that North Dakota is a cool, subhumid
grassland--a natural spring wheat country. Light rainfall and frequent
drought result in a low average yield per acre. Large farms, an extensive
agriculture with a large use of machines, and consequently a sparse, thinly
spread farm population are wise adjustments to the nature of the country.
A few facts will demonstrate how this has worked out in the state. In
1957 North Dakota was fourth among the states in acres of crops harvested
but only ninth in farm income from crops 29 Iowa with 30 inches of rainfall
a year has an average farm size of 176 acres; North Dakota with 17 inches of
rainfall has an average farm size 676 acres, a round 500 acres larger than
Iowa. Subhumid North Dakota produces on an average only half as many bushels
of wheat per acre as humid Ohio. The North Dakota countryside, excluding
the towns and villages, has a population of less than four persons per
square mile.
These conditions are responses to the subhumid grassland. But pioneers
whose whole experience had been in regions with plenty of rain settled North
Dakota. They knew nothing of the imperatives of this strange new country.
Rushing in with a heady optimism, the pioneers--investors, railroad builders,
town founders, missionaries, and constitution makers as well as farmers--
set about developing it as though it were the same sort of country as they
were familiar with in the humid East--capable of producing as much per acre
and of supporting as dense a population with all its accompanying parapher-
nalia of civilization.
Again and again they made the Too-Much Mistake--truly one of the
great themes of North Dakota history. The pioneers, encouraged by the
Homestead Act, cut the grassland into too many farms and too many people
moved onto the land. The railroad promoters laid too many miles of track
and started too many towns. The lawmakers organized too many local govern-
mental units--townships, counties, school districts, and eventually a ecmplex,
overlapping maze of state agencies. They laid out too many miles of rcads,
28 James W. Beck, "The Post-War North Dakota Economy," North Dakota Busi-
ness, V, No. 1 (Oct., 1958); Statistical Abstract, 1948, p. 279, 1957, p. 303.
In 1945 the per capita personal income in North Dakota was $1,009, in the U.S.
$1234; in 1950 the per capitalpersonal income in North Dakota was $1260, in
the U.S. $1491; in 1953 $1228 in N.D., $1788 in U.S.; in 1954 $1195 in N.D.,
$1767 in U.S.; in 1955 $1372 in N.D., $1847in U.S. Per capitalpersonal in-
come by North Dakota counties is shown in Glen A. Muney, "Estimated Incomes
of North Dakota Counties, 1955," North Dakota Business, III, No. 3 (March,
1957). In 1955 the per cap ital personal income ranged from an average
of $870 in Rolette County to $2000 in Cass County.
29 North Dakota Crop and Livestock Reporting Service, North Dakota Crop
and Livestock Statistics, 1957, p. 48.
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set up too many schools, colleges, churches, and banks.
30
There were too
many because, after many of the original settlers had left the subhumid
grassland, there were too few people to be served and too few people to
bear the costs. 31
The Too-Much Mistake was a compound of several things--developments
that influenced farming in the whole nation, the subhumid nature of North
Dakota. and the inevitable bewilderment of pioneers in a strange country.
New farm machinery and the internal combustion engine in auto, truck, and
tractor changed farming and reduced the farm population everywhere in the
nation. So everywhere some of the rural roads, churches, schools, railroad
branch lines, and villages that once had been essential were no longer SO.
But in North Dakota and in the Great Plains generally the problem was much
more serious and the cutting back of the excess supply much more drastic.
30
In 1895 Governor Eli C.D. Shortridge told the legislature that the
state had more public institutions than it needed or could support (North
Dakota Legislative Assembly, House Journal, 1895, pp. 18-22). C.A. Armstrong
in his History of the Methodist Church in North Dakota (Fargo, 1946), pp.
20, 34-36, has told something of the process and results. The missionaries
of the Methodists, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists were, Armstrong
wrote, in "a wild scramble to hold the first service in as many towns as
possible. One Methodist missionary, Jabez G. Moore, helped to build seventy
churches and seventy-two parsonages. The first services were held in stores,
dance halls, pool rooms, barns, and tents. It was easy to establish churches
even though a community held few church members. "The country was new, people
optimistic in support of new things. Townsite companies gave free lots to all
churches. The lumber yards were trusting and willing to sell lumber for a
new church on a promise, or less, in many cases. The Mission Boards had funds
from eastern donors to convert the Indians, the cowboys, and the outlaws of
the new west. The result was that many churches were built on less than a
'shoe string,' and located where there were few members and no permanent con-
stituency. Armstrong concluded that the "extravagant waste of missionary
funds was one of the major scandals of religion in our state. The petty
proselyting, the heartaches of defeated ministers and church boards, the
weakened and divided state of religion in the community, the rush to be first
to call on the new family in the community, the accusations and counter accusa-
tions, were repeated in community after community." It is difficult to read
Armstrong's account and not believe that the Too-Much Mistake was a reality.
31 The Too-Much Mistake theme is not an attack upon the pioneers. We shall
long remember that with hardship and toil they brought the panoply of civil-
ization to the vast, empty grassland. But no one can foresee the future
clearly; few can adapt to strange, new conditions without some suffering. Un-
less we today see the Too-Much Mistake clearly, we will not understand one of
the significant aspects of the state's history. We are still making adjust-
ments to correct the Too-Much Mistake and we are still constantly in danger
of making it again. There is scarcely a message of a governor to the legis-
lature from 1889 to the present that does not by its exhortations for economy,
by implication if not directly, give warning of the danger.
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The pioneers of North Dakota and the Great Plains made the Too-Much
Mistake in part because they were not familiar with the subhumid country.
Their whole experience in life had been in humid regions. The importance
of this fact is one of the central ideas of the two outstanding books on
the region: Walter P. Webb's The Great Plains and Carl F. Kraenzel's The
Great Plains in Transition.
Moreover, the land laws of the United States that largely set the
original size of farms were passed by a Congress which knew nothing of
the western country. The Homestead Act of 1862, under which much of
North Dakota passed into private ownership, provided for farms of only
160 acres--much too small for the subhumid region. In 1878 John Wesley
Powell, the first man to see that the subhumid West needed different in-
stitutions than the humid East, recommended homesteads of four sections
(2560 acres) but Congress turned down his recommendation.
The proof that the Too-Much Mistake was a real mistake lies simply in
the evidence of too little use, of too heavy cost per capita--needs pres-
sing too hard upon limited income, and, most irrefutably, in the record
of retrenchment and abandonment. The basic mistake was too many small
farms--farms too small for a family to make a living on in a subhumid
country. This was in part the fault of the Homestead Act. But many pioneers
did not take an additional 160 acres under the Timber Culture Act and another
160 acres under the Pre-emption Act which they could have had; their farms
were often smaller than they needed to be. In 1920, after thousands of
farms had already disappeared and thousands of families had left the farming
country, there still were 77,690 farms in North Dakota with an average size
of 466 acres and a farm population of 395,000. Then agriculture became more
mechanized, farms were enlarged, and the farm population inevitably declined.
In 1955 there were only 61,943 farms, with an average size of 676 acres, and
a farm population of less than 250,000.32
With the advent of the automobile and the sharp decline in farm popula-
tion, North Dakota had far more of many things than it needed. By 1915 the
state had three times as many miles of railroads in proportion to its pop-
ulation as the United States as a whole had, creating a problem of small use
and high cost; by the 1950's North Dakota had almost six times as much rail-
road mileage in proportion to its population as the nation. 33
There were also more small towns than could thrive. After 1930 half
the towns were losing population; the smaller the town the more likely it
was to decline. 34 Many country churches closed. By 1945 the Methodists
had abandoned 49 per cent of the 131 places where they were conducting re-
ligious services in 1897. By 1953 the Presbyterians had still open only
102 of the over 300 churches that they had organized in the state. In 1916
32 North Dakota Agricultural Statistics, p. 9; Baldur H. Kristjanson and
C.J. Heltemes, Handbook of Facts about North Dakota Agriculture, North Dakota
Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 357 (Fargo, June, 1950), p. 90;
U.S. Census of Population: 1950, Vol. II, Characteristics of the Population,
Part 34, North Dakota, p. 25. In 1950 the rural farm population in North
Dakota was 254, 487.
33 Statistical Abstract, 1957, p. 563.
34 U.S. Census of Population: 1950, Vol. I, Number of Inhabitants,
Part 34, North Dakota, pp. 18-19.
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the Episcopal Church had parishes or organized missions with church build-
ings in 48 places; by 1958 it had abandoned 21 of these. 35 The number of
newspapers in the state declined from 357 in 1911 to 120 in 1958. 36 In
1920 North Dakota had 898 banks, more in proportion to its population than
any other state; in 1958 it had only 154 banks--744 had disappeared. 37
Some that disappeared had doubtless once been justified, but many others
had been founded in anticipation of needs which never developed. In 1942 the
state government had over sixty agencies, many of them working in overlapping
fields; Governor John Moses called it "a hodge-podge. "38 In 1958 government
work (all kinds - federal, state, local, schools, health, highway, etc.) is
the second larges class of nonagricultural employment in North Dakota, stand-
ing only below trade. 39 About a fourth of the nonagricultural workers are
employed by government or almost an eighth of all employed persons in the
state.
Roads and schools, the most costly of government services, are absolute
necessities, yet in a sparsely settled country the financial burden of main-
taining them becomes very heavy and their use can be but small. North Dakota
has about 114,000 miles of rural roads, or almost a mile per family or two
35 Armstrong, pp. 35-37, 77-86; Marian E. McKechnie, "Spiritual
Pioneering: A History of the Synod of North Dakota, Presbyterian Church,
U.S.A., 1885-1954" (unpublished M.A. thesis, History Department, University
of North Dakota, 1955), pp. 67, 125, 126; note from Dr. Robert P. Wilkins.
Apparently the Lutheran and Roman Catholics did not have to close nearly as
large a proportion of their churches as did those mentioned which suffered
as many pioneers of Canadian and older American stocks left the state. The
Lutherans of the Missouri Synod had 171 congregations and preaching stations
in 1917 and 136 in 1952 (Lambert J. Mehl, "Missouri Grows to Maturity in
North Dakota: A Regional History of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod"
[unpublished M.A. thesis, Department of History, University of North Dakota,
1953_7, 182-83). In 1926 there were 2,272 churches in North Dakota; in the
next ten years 721 disappeared and 546 new ones were established, SO in 1936
there were 2,097 churches (Dondald G. Hay, Social Organizations and Agencies
[Fargo, 1937_7 , p. 40).
in North Dakota, North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 288
36 N.W. Ayer and Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory. Published
annually in Philadelphia with some variation in title. See volumes for 1911
and 1958 under North Dakota.
37 Koenker, pp. 70-100. In pioneer days banks were often established in
fiercely for deposits and in the making of loans; by 1920 North Dakota had
advance of settlement; a village of 200 might have three banks competing
of one bank for every 750 persons. For the number of banks in 1958 see Abstract
Report of State Bank Examiner.
State Public Service Administration, The Organization and Administration of the
38 Message to the Legislature by John Moses, 1943, pp. 20-22; 1945, p. 8;
Government of North Dakota (2 vols.; Chicago, 1942), I, i, 2, 5, 59-60.
bulletin published by the Unemployment Compensation Division and the State
39 North Dakota Labor Market Trends, November 1958. This is a monthly
Employment Service, Bismarck, North Dakota. The Statistical Abstract, 1957,
pp. 206-07, shows that North Dakota has a higher percentage (22.3%) of its
nonagricultural workers employed by government than most of the states.
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miles per farm. Some 43,000 miles are unimproved prairie trails on which no
money has ever been spent. In 1952 North Dakota had fewer persons and fewer
automobiles per mile of rural road than any neighboring state. In 1941
Governor Moses, worrying about highway finance, told the legislature: "We
are maintaining the largest highway system in point of mileage per car of any
state in the union. Yet in 1952 25,000 miles carried 85 per cent of all
rural travel, and the remaining 89,000 miles only 15 per cent.
Though many roads are little used, they have cost much money. By 1957
North Dakota had spent about $320,000,000, a staggering sum, on rural high-
way construction. Yet the state had only 3,955 miles of hard-surfaced rural
highways. The funds had been spread over a great mileage, mostly for grading
and graveling. Proper maintenance of such a large mileage is very difficult;
in 1957 almost half of the 484 miles in the state highway system, the best
cared for in the state, was in poor condition.
Does the state need all its rural roads? In 1946 there were only 29,171
miles of rural postal routes in North Dakota, yet these routes presumably
reached virtually every farm home. In 1952 a painstaking study of North
Dakota highways, prepared for the Legislative Research Committee, recommended
that the state highway system be reduced by more than one-third - from 6,844
to 4,200 miles of rural roads. The study also estimated that a third of the
46,000 miles of township roads only duplicated the service of other roads
and SO were little used and unnecessary. 40
In the schools a similar situation prevails. There are, and long have
been, too many schools with low enrollments and high costs per pupil. One
result has been the disappearance of many of them. In 1920 there were 372
one-room schools in North Dakota; in 1957 there were 2,075. In 1956-57 North
Dakota ranked fourth among the states in percentage of personal income pay-
ments spent on education; yet it was only 44th in salaries paid to teachers.
40
Highway Planning Survey of the North Dakota State Highway Department,
North Dakota Highway Statistics, 1957, pp. 1, 8, 23, 28; Report of the High-
way Commissioner, 1940, p. 57; North Dakota Legislative Assembly, House
Journal, 1941, pp. 37-38; Automotive Safety Foundation, An Engineering Study
of North Dakota's Roads and Streets, prepared for the North Dakota Legislative
Research Committee (Bismarck, 1952), pp. 26, 57-70; Automotive Safety Foun-
dation, Better Roads for North Dakota, prepared for the North Dakota Legis-
lative Research Committee (Bismarck, 1952); James C. Nelson, Financing North
Dakota's Highways, Roads and Streets, prepared for the North Dakota Legis-
lative Research Committee (Bismarck, 1952), p. 4; Statistical Abstract, 1948,
p. 489. The rural postal routes amount to nearly one mile for each two farms.
Farms now average over a square mile, so a mile of highway could serve two
farms, or theoretically, 35,000 miles of highway could about connect each of
the 70,054 square miles of land surface in the state with towns. At present
6,484 miles of rural roads are in the state system and miles in the
county system. The remainder are under the care of the townships or are
uncared for prairie trails. In 1957 townships spent $4,212,100 for highway
purposes, counties spent $12,220,777, and the state spent $30,327,319 (North
Dakota Highway Statistics, 1957, pp. 8, 23, 28). Rural roads, the most
costly public service in the state, cost much more than public education in
North Dakota. In fiscal 1957 the public elementary and high schools cost
$36,912,795; and half the biennial appropriation for higher education was
$5,904,626. Department of Public Instruction, Summary of Facts, as of
June 30, 1957; North Dakota Legislative Assembly, Session Laws, 1955, p. 73.
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In 1957-58 half of the 380 four-year high schools had less than fifty pupils.
Education costs in these small high schools, considered the weakest point in
the educational system by State Superintendent of Public Instruction M.F.
Peterson, ran as high as $1050 per pupil per year. 41 Some sort of adjust-
ment is needed in the matter of the small and hence expensive high schools,
in the maintenance of expensive roads for the use of a few, and in many
other problems created by the sparseness of the population.
Adjustment to conditions created by the cool, subhumid grassland is the
sixth great theme in the history of the state. Retrenchment--the cutting
back of the excess in farms, schools, banks, towns, newspapers, and churches-
has been a necessary but painful and negative sort of adjustment. It has
come more rapidly in private than in government areas: unsound banks soon
closed but in North Dakota no county--however uneconomical because of its
small population--has been consolidated with another. Private colleges have
closed but none of the state colleges. It has taken nearly fifty years to
make much progress in school district reorganization, but a measure for state
wide redistricting was defeated on November 4, 1958.
Many adjustments, however, to life on the subhumid grassland have come.
Long ago the native plant and animal life adapted itself to the necessities
of the cold, dry, level plain; they became sparing in the use of water, great
travellers (tumbleweed and buffalo alike); they gathered into flocks or herds
or large plant communities; they went underground to escape cold and enemies.
To counteract the remoteness and isolation of the vast grassland, the people
have been quick to make use of horses (a great boon to the Plains Indians),
keelboats, canoes, steamboats, railroads, and automobiles. All these means
of conquering distance have played an unusually significant part in the his-
tory of the state. At an early date North Dakotans, along with the other
people of the North Central states, had more automobiles in proportion to
the population than the people in other sections. In 1956 North Dakotans
were still 21 per cent ahead, owning 467 motor vehicles per thousand persons
to 385 per thousand in the United States. 43
Farmers have adapted their practices to the nature of the country. They
have concentrated on wheat, other small grains, and cattle--natural products
for a cool, subhumid grassland. They have steadily enlarged their farms,
from an average of 271 acres in 1880 to 676 in 1955. More and more they
have adopted practices to conserve soil and water and to check the damage
of wind and drought. In the good times since 1942 they have rapidly built
up financial reserves to protect themselves against future reserves. By the
end of 1945 North Dakotans owned $398,000,000 worth of government bonds and
had bank deposits of $425,000,000. In 1958 they had bank deposits of
$696,000,000 and the state itself holds reverses in various special funds
of almost $140,000,000 in cash and securities.
41
Educational Statistics of Interest of North Dakota Teachers," North
Dakota Teacher, XXXVII, No. 7 (March, 1958), 18-20; Richard B. Klein, "The
Future is Now, ibid., pp. 24-25; John C. Brady and James Thornton, "A
Review of Education in North Dakota," College of Education Record (University
of North Dakota), XLII, No. 4 (Jan., 1957).
42 Wallace Craig, "North Dakota Life; Plant, Animal and Human," Bulletin
of the American Geographical Society, XL (July, 1908), 321-415, is a bril-
liant account of biological adaptations.
43
Statistical Abstract, 1922, p. 291; 1957, p. 553.
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In other ways North Dakotans have made great progress in the prosperous
years since 1945. They have steadily earned a gross farm income per farm
well above the national average. They have sharply reduced farm tenancy
and farm mortgage indebtedness. They have created a more diversified agri-
cultural economy. They have increased farm facilities, most notably in
electrification. They have had a part, along with outsiders and outside
capital, in creating an oil industry in the state and in the building of
Garrison Dam. They have built many miles of hard-surfaced highways, many
homes, many schools, many hospitals and other public buildings. They have
greatly improved the treatment of the mentally ill. Through the Legislative
Research Committee they are making real progress in dealing with many problems
of the state government. They are sending their children to college in in-
creasing numbers. They have increased pensions for the aged, given generous
medical care to dependent persons, and in other ways made advances in creating
a more decent and humane society. All these things are related to a better
adjustment to the imperatives of the subhumid grassland; they are matters
for pride and satisfaction on the part of all North Dakotans. It is signi-
ficant, however, that much of the progress has been the result of federal
programs and federal money. In 1957 the federal government returned to North
Dakota in the form of grants 71 per cent of the federal tax collections in
the state. 44 This percentage was larger than for any other state except South
Dakota.
For all this recent progress and largely because of the subhumid
character of the country, opportunities in North Dakota, both in agriculture
and other pursuits, have been and still are limited. For many people the
adjustment has been simply to leave the state. People began to leave in
substantial numbers even before 1915 when the last free land was taken up.
From then until 1930 the population grew at only about a third of the rate
of natural increase. From 1930 to 1950 the population actually declined.
In 1950 45.5 per cent of the people born in North Dakota were living outside
the state. Only two other states have a higher percentage who have left their
native state. 45
Over 360,000 native-born North Dakotans live in other states. They left
to seek opportunities North Dakota could not offer. Many have made dis-
tinguished names for themselves. What Eric Severeid, the distinguished
radio and television news commentator, has written of his native Velva is
true for many another town in North Dakota: "Hungey young brains must have
food to work on and Velva cannot provide it; it has not the industries, the
laboratories, the law courts and colleges for young brains to flourish and
ambitions come true
For Velva is small, the world calls, the gate is
open and they are young; go they must and always will. "46
The heavy loss of population has stimulated efforts to give the state a
more diversified economy. Diversification would create more opportunities
and start the population rising again. Diversification would also modify
North Dakota's status as a colonial hinterland, help to raise it from its
position of economic disadvantage, and possibly make it more conservative.
44
William E. Koenker, "Federal Tax Collections from and Payments to North
Dakota, " North Dakota Business, IV, No. 3 (April, 1958).
45
Statistical Abstract, 1957, pp. 10, 11, 37. The Census Bureau has
estimated that 41,000 persons left North Dakota from 1950 to 1955, but that
the population of the state rose 37,000.
46
You Can Go Home Again," Collier's, May 11, 1956, p. 67.
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Irrigation, long promoted but slow in coming, would further diversify agri-
culture and increase the farm population. For many years the hope, yet to
be realized, has been that lignite, by furnishing cheap power, would bring
industry to North Dakota. The development of the oil industry has been a
step, and perhaps the St. Lawrence Seaway will hasten industrialization.
Remoteness, dependence, radicalism, economic disadvantage, the Too-
Much Mistake, and adjustment: such, I believe, are the six great themes of
the state's most significant experiences. I have tried to show that they
spring from the fundamentals--the cool, subhumid grassland at the center of
the continent, that they are tied to one another, and that they run through
the state's history, virtually from the beginning to the present day. They
represent my understanding of the North Dakota story--the story of a big
spring wheat country. They are hard, disagreeable truths--hurting our self-
esteem; yet, I believe, we must face them honestly if we would use the lessons
of the past to make a better future.
One thing more, however, remains to be said. The themes, the fundamentals,
and probably the winnowing process of pioneer settlement itself have placed
stamp upon the people, producing the North Dakota character. What is the
typical North Dakotan? He is, I believe, friendly and warm-hearted--ready
to lend a helping hand. 47 He has a strong loyalty to the state. He is
democratic, suspicious of the "interests," and something of a radical. He
has an independent, courageous, stubborn, and aggressive spirit; he admires
a fighter. He can endure hardship and suffering, and these have often made
him pessimistic and cautious. He is an energetic person, full of hustle,
and takes pride in withstanding the rigors of the North Dakota weather. He
is intelligent and alert. Perhaps none of us are exactly the typical North
Dakotan, yet I believe that we all share many of his qualities and attitudes.
Indeed, we can scarcely help ourselves, for they spring from the North
Dakota experience and environment. Remoteness with its inevitable isolation
placed a premium on friendliness and courage--the great virtue of the wilder-
ness with all its dangers. Dependence made the North Dakotan radical, sus-
picious of the "interests," aggressive, independent, and a loyal member of a
self-conscious minority group. The position of economic disadvantage accus-
tomed him to hardship; retrenchment after the Too-Much Mistake made him
pessimistic and cautious. The cool, dry climate is responsible for his unusual
energy, and perhaps a combination of the original stock, the invigorating
climate, and challenging conditions gave him a high level of intelligence.
There is much evidence that these qualities and attitudes are fairly
typical of North Dakotans. In 1933 North Dakota ranked a proud fifteenth
among the states on an index of cultural development prepared by Frederic
Osburn of the American Museum of Natural History of New York City. Osburn
used such things as intelligence test scores, illiteracy rates, teachers'
salaries, and magazine subscriptions to construct the index. By it North
Dakota, for all its position of economic disadvantage, ranked ahead of,
47 Here is a statistic for doubters. A sociological study found, to the
surprise of the investigator, that 96 per cent of the old residents of
Williston thought that the newcomers brought in by the oil boom had been
they had been accepted (Robert B. Campbell, Samuel C. Ross
accepted into the community and 95 per cent of the newcomers thought that
Talbot, and Bernt L. Wills, The Williston Report: The Kelley, of Jr., Oil on B. the
Williston 129-30). Area of North Dakota L University of North Dakota, Impact 1958 pp.
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48
among others, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa.
In 1956 only
five states had a smaller percentage than North Dakota of selective service
registrants disqualified by the mental test. 49 The distinguished achieve-
ments of many University alumni and other native sons and daughters tell
something of the capacity of the people from whom they sprang.
The character of a people may be reflected by the character of their
leading men--if you will, their heroes. It is significant, I believe, that
for many years tens of thousands of North Dakotans admired the courageous,
crusading reformers Edwin F. Ladd, Theodore Roosevelt, "Fighting Bob" La
Follette, and Bill Lemke.
Friendliness, courage, energy, loyalty, radicalism as it was in North
Dakota--a militant fight for simple justice and a stubborn independence of
spirit--these are good words; the North Dakotans whom they describe were
and are a good people. You and I--native or adopted children--can well be
proud of our heritage as we face the problems confronting us.
NORTH DAKOTA STATE LIBRARY
BISMARCK
48
p. 188.
Sidney F. Markham, Climate and the Energy of Nations (London, 1947),
49
North Dakota Teacher, XXXVII, No. 7 (March, 1958), 18-20.
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DAKOTA
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1989 - NORTH DAKOTA'S CENTENNIAL
NORTH DAKOTA'S CENTENNIAL COMMISSION
The North Dakota Centennial Commission is a temporary unit of state government created
by legislative action in 1981 with the following statement of purpose:
"The North Dakota Centennial Commission shall serve to stimulate, coordinate,
conduct and assist activities relating to 100 years of statehood involving as many
citizens as possible with the aims of celebrating our state's birthday, instilling
pride in our state, profitting from the past and preserving a legacy for the future."
The commission's 18 volunteer members are the policy makers of the Centennial. Policy
decisions are carried out by a full-time professional staff headed by Executive Director
S.F. "Buckshot" Hoffner.
Commission administration is funded by a biennial appropriation from the state
legislature. Operating expenses are generated by the sale of commemorative items, the
collection of Centennial vendor royalty fees, and donations and gifts.
The commission operates a sanctioning program for use of the Official North Dakota
Centennial logo, the Native People's Centennial logo, and the Great Seal of the State on
products and projects. The commission also sanctions the Centennial projects of hundreds
of local communities, associations and businesses.
During 1988, the Centennial Commission will distribute about $950,000, in matching grants
for Centennial projects which celebrate the cultural heritage of North Dakota during the
year-long celebration between November 2, 1988, and STATEHOOD DAY, November 2, 1989.
FACTS ABOUT NORTH DAKOTA "THE PEACE GARDEN STATE"
Statehood:
November 2, 1889, the 39th State
Area:
70,665 square miles
Population: 652,695 (1980)
Major Cities: Fargo, 61,383; Bismarck, 44,485; Grand Forks, 43,765; Minot, 32,843
Capital:
Major Lakes:
Bismarck
Sakakawea, Oahe, Devils,
Metigoshe
High Point:
White Butte, 3504 feet
National Park:
LOW Point:
Theodore Roosevelt
Pembina, 750 feet
National Park
North
Major Rivers:
Federal Sites:
Dakota
Missouri, Red, Souris,
CENTENNIAL
Knife River Indian
James, Sheyenne
Villages, Fort Union
NORTH DAKOTA CENTENNIAL DECADE TREES PROGRAM
As a lasting legacy of the North Dakota Centennial, the commission has designated a decade-long
Centennial tree planting effort as its focal project. Aiming to strengthen North Dakota's annual tree planting
traditions, the commission encourages the creation of "living legacies" through tree planting by groups,
individuals and communities. By working in close cooperation with city, state, and federal agencies, the
goal is to increase annual tree plantings over the next decade to reach a total planting of 100 million
trees before the year 2000.
MAJOR CENTENNIAL EVENTS
Government Day
February 22, 1989
Constitution Day
July 4, 1989
Native American Day
April 5, 1989
Citizen's Day
October 1, 1989
Founders Day
May 14, 1989
Statehood Day
November 2, 1989
NORTH DAKOTA BIBLIOGRAPHY
General History:
Elwyn B. Robinson. North Dakota History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966
Robert P. Wilkins & Wynona H. Wilkins. North Dakota: A Bicentennial History. New York; W.W. Norton & Co., 1977
Bruce Nelson. Land of the Dacotahs. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1973; first pub. 1946
Exploration:
Russel Reid, ed. Lewis and Clark in North Dakota. Bismarck: State Historical Society of ND, 1947; reprint ed. 1988
G. Hubert Smith. The Journals of La Verendrye. Edited by W. Raymond Wood. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.
David Thomas & Karin Ronnefeldt, eds. People of the First Man: Life Among the Plains Indians in Their Final Days of Glory. New
York: Promontory Press, 1982.
Frontier Military:
Evan S. Connell. son of the Morning Star. Harper & ROW, 1984.
Elizabeth Bacon Custer. Boots and Saddles.
Larry Remele. ed. Fort Buford and the Northern Plains Military Frontier, 1850-1900. Bismarck: SHSND, 1987.
Larry Remele, ed. Fort Totten: Military Post and Indian School, 1867-1959. Bismarck: SHSND, 1986.
Native Peoples:
Mary Jane Schneider. North Dakota Indians: An Introduction. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt, 1986.
Carolyn Gilman & Mary Jane Schneider. The Way to Independence: Memories of a Hidatsa Indian Family, 1840-1920. St. Paul:
Minnesota Historical Society, 1987.
C. L. Dill. Early Peoples of North Dakota (Before 1858). Bismarck: SHSND, 1983; reprint ed. 1988.
Settlement & Statehood:
William C. Sherman & P. V. Thorson, eds. Plains People: North Dakota's Ethnic Heritage. Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional
Studies, 1987.
Era Bell Thompson. American Daughter. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1986; first pub. 1947
William C. Sherman. Prairie Mosiac: An Ethnic Atlas of North Dakota. Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1983.
Post-Settlement:
Lois Phillips Hudson. The Bones of Plenty. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1985; first pub. 1963.
D. Jerome Tweton & Daniel F. Rylance. The Years of Despair: North Dakota in the Depression. Grand Forks: Oxcart Press, 1973.
Ann Marie LOW. Dust BOWI Diary. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.
Politics:
Robert Loren Morlan. Political Prairie Fire: The Nonpartisan League, 1915-1922. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955,
reprint ed, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1985.
Thomas Howard, ed. The North Dakota Political Tradition. Ames: lowa State University Press, 1981.
Edward C. Blackorby. Prairie Rebel: The Public Life of William Lemke. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963.
Nature:
Robert Stewart. Breeding Birds of North Dakota.
O. A. Stevens. Handbook of Prairie Plants.
Wilmon H. Droze. Trees, Prairie, and People: Tree Planting in the Plains States. 1977.
Contemporary Literature:
Larry Woiwode. Beyond the Bedroom Wall. 1975.
Richard Critchfield. Those Days: An American Album. 1986.
Thomas McGrath. Letter to an Imaginary Friend. (3 vols.)
Louise Erdrich. Love Medicine. Bantam Books, 1984.
Children:
Project Study. The History and Current Status of North Dakota. Harvey, ND: Harvey Public Schools, 1979. (20 booklets; 4th grade level)
Erling Nicolai Rolfsrud. Notable North Dakotans. Farwell, MN: Lantern Press, 1987.
Erling Nicolai Rolfsrud. Copher Talls for Papa. Farwell, MN: Lantern Press, 1987; first pub. 1954.
E. Palmer Rockswold. Per, A Norwegian Immigrant. Staples, MN: Adventure Publications, 1976.
Periodicals:
North Dakota History: Journal of the Northern Plains (State Historical Society of North Dakota; quarterly)
North Dakota Horizons (Greater North Dakota Association; quarterly)
North Dakota Outdoors (North Dakota Game and Fish Dept; monthly)
North Dakota Quarterly (University of North Dakota; quarterly journal of literature and literary criticism)
Plainswoman (Plainswoman, Inc.; bi-monthly)
Former North Dakota Gov. Arthur A. Link, chairman of the state's Centennial Commission, plants the first centennial tree at the University
of North Dakota in Grand Forks as members of the commission look on. The planting occurred in December 1987 after commission members
voted unanimously to name tree planting the focal centennial project.
Trees: Our living legacy to the centennial
even the once-in-a-lifetime centennial
Purpose: Strengthen planting tradition
by Raylene Frankhauser Nickel
celebration should include something
Since the purpose of the program is to
which lasts when the party is over," he
strengthen the tradition of planting trees in
veryone knows North Dakota has a
writes. "That notion is the seed for the
the state-and because tradition takes some
great deal to celebrate this year, the year
Centennial Tree Program."
time to establish-the Centennial Tree Pro-
that marks its 100th birthday. To pay tribute
The beauty of the idea is that it celebrates
gram is designed to run an entire decade.
to this long-awaited centennial, there will
the tradition of tree planting in North
The goal is to plant 100 million trees by
be great fanfare and a myriad of festivities
Dakota-which actually began with the set-
the year 2000: That means we need to plant
held across the state: fireworks, speeches,
tlers-while contributing to the future by
10 million trees every year for the duration
dedications, presentations and re-enact-
leaving generations to come with a living
of the next decade.
ments from the pages of North Dakota's
legacy of trees. In addition, it's a celebra-
While 10 million may sound like a stag-
colorful past.
tion project every person in the state can
gering number of trees to plant in one year,
Besides participating in all these celebra-
take part in. You can either plant trees in
it's not an impossible task. North Dakota
tions, you can honor the centennial in.
your own yard, on your own farm, con-
already plants 3,500,000 trees on average
another, more long-lasting fashion, too.
tribute a tree to a city or state park, or even
every year. And back in the 1950s and '60s,
How? You can plant trees.
start or join an organization planning to do
when farm and field shelterbelt plantings
The North Dakota Centennial Commis-
some sort of centennial tree planting.
reached a high point, the state planted 6
sion designated tree planting as the "focal
"The program really calls for us to try
million per year. North Dakota soil con-
centennial project" in late 1987. Dennis
and increase the plantings that are made in-
servation districts alone have planted more
Neumann, deputy director of the North
programs that already exist," explains
than 215 million trees since 1937.
Dakota Centennial Commission, tells why
Neumann. Some of the programs he refers
But in spite of such plantings, North
in a booklet explaining the Centennial Tree
to have been in place for several decades
Dakota's tree population has not grown
Program.
through the Soil Conservation Service
significantly. That's because millions of our
"North Dakota common sense says that
(SCS) and the Forest Service.
trees fall prey to disease and development
April 1989/ND REC Magazine-45
every year. As a result, the large numbers
and shelterbelts-as well as the wildlife tree
of trees we plant in the next decade will
plantings.
simply replace the number of trees that will
"The difference between a wildlife plant-
be lost during the same period.
ing and one of the forest tree plantings is
The good new is that trees established
that the wildlife planting would include
in the centennial decade are likely to be
more shrubs. We would use shrubs in our
placed in areas where we can enjoy them.
plantings as well, but we'd plant more trees
"The trees planted in the next 10 years will
that would have eventual potential for wood
be in very visible places," says Neumann.
products," Harsel says.
"The promoters of these programs-the
To individuals who want to plant trees
cities, the parks districts, the centennial
through the Forest Service, Harsel says,
committees-are going to plant their trees
"The landowner should contact us, and
in ways that are going to bring a great deal
then we can help plan and design their tree
of recognition to their projects."
plantings. We would order the tree stock
for them and provide the tree planting ser-
Struggle part of state history
vice."
The struggle to establish and maintain
trees on the North Dakota prairie is part
Plantings may qualify for benefits
and parcel of the state's history. When the
Harsel adds that landowners should con-
pioneers came to this land, they found it
tact their local Agricultural Stabilization
barren of trees save for those along creek
and Conservation Service office or SCS
or river bottoms. As a result, tree establish-
office to see how they might qualify for
ment became an important goal, and the
cost-sharing benefits. (Cost-share programs
federal government initiated an incentive
don't apply to evergreen stands established
program where settlers could acquire free
for eventual harvest of Christmas trees.)
land if they agreed to establish a stand of
In the same vein, district soil conserva-
trees on the acreage.
tion personnel will advise landowners who
"In the 1870s there was a program called
want to plant additional field windbreaks
the Timber Culture Act," Neumann ex-
or strengthen existing shelterbelts. With the
plains. "It allowed settlers to gain free
advent of new tree varieties, new shelterbelt
tracts of land if they promised to plant a
designs and extensive soil and groundwater
certain number of acres of trees on it. Some
information, the SCS will be able to help
of those shelterbelts and windbreaks still
ning large-number tree plantings is weed
you plan a tree planting strategy tailored
control. "If you keep the weeds out for the
stand."
specifically to your farm.
But the Timber Culture Act was discon-
first five years, you're going to end up with
According to Gary Puppe, executive vice
tinued in the late 1800s because some set-
some pretty nice trees," says Puppe. "And
president of the North Dakota Association
if you keep the weeds out continuously.
tlers took the land but failed to establish
of Soil Conservation Districts, tree plant-
you'll end up with an even nicer shelter-
and maintain the required acres of trees.
ing really begins a year before you put the
belt-one that will live longer, too."
Some years later, however, came a renewed
trees in the ground. That's because the
Cultivation is the usual method used for
interest in tree planting.
planting site you select should be summer-
weed control in tree plantings. However.
"In the 1930s we learned that soil ero-
fallowed for a season to conserve moisture
Puppe notes there is a granular herbicide
sion was a real problem," Neumann relates.
and control weeds. That is. unless the site
"And so North Dakota was one of those
available which can be applied on top of
is exceptionally sandy and carries a native
the ground in the fall and will provide
states that really threw itself into tree plant-
grass cover. In that case you may choose
ing throughout the '30s, '40s and on up into
season-long weed control the following
not to summerfallow to prevent wind ero-
year.
the '50s. Even into the 1960s we were one
sion. Harsel points out that in sandy land
of the leading states in planting field wind-
trees can be planted directly into the sod
Early planning needed
breaks." Tree planting since then has grad-
by a process called scalping. "Scalping
ually fallen back to its present level of
Homeowners who decide to plant trees
is where you dig a trench in the sod, and
3,500,000 trees a year.
need to do some early planning, too., Steve
the trees get planted right into the trench,"
Becker, president of the North Dakota
The advent of the Centennial Tree Pro-
he explains.
gram will realign the direction of that trend
Nursery and Greenhouse Association, says
Another reason large-scale tree planting
upward, however. It is expected that the
the first step is an early-season visit to your
plans need to be made in the year before
local nursery to get ideas and to order trees.
largest increases in tree plantings will occur
you plant is to ensure there will be stock
"Don't wait until the middle of May be-
as a result of landowner participation in
available to fill your order. Puppe recom-
either SCS programs or the Forest Service
fore you go to your nursery or greenhouse
mends that tree stock orders placed through
and say, 'I want to do a centennial tree
programs. Both have plans that qualify for
the soil conservation districts be made in
federal cost-share benefits.
planting. Help me out,' he advises.
the fall of the previous year.
Bob Harsel, district forester with the
"First of all, the people at the nursery
Harsel adds. that orders placed through
probably won't even have time because
North Dakota Forest Service at Lisbon, ex-
the Forest Service need to be in place by
they're very busy in the spring. And
plains the difference between the types of
Jan. 1 in order to provide trees for spring
secondly, depending on the size of your
tree plantings the two organizations do:
planting. He notes that because demand is
order and the size of the nursery, they
"We do forest-type, block tree plantings
already higher than usual, the Forest Ser-
that are intended to provide multi-use
may not have the trees to fill your order.'
vice is booked up for this spring.
benefits, while the SCS does windbreaks
Becker, part-owner of S&B Landscaping
Another factor to consider when plan-
& Nursery, Bismarek. says nursery profes-
46-April 1989/ND REC Magazine
CAPING
Steve Becker (left photo), part-owner of S&B Landscaping & Nursery, Bismarck,
says nursery professionals can advise tree planters what varieties of trees or shrubs
might work best in their situation. He is shown pruning evergreens at the com-
pany's nursery. Gary Puppe (top photo), executive vice president of the North
Dakota Association of Soil Conservation Districts, checks for rodent damage in
a heeling bed. Tree seedlings are placed in these beds after being dug in the fall
and are stored there over winter. In the spring, they will be delivered directly to
customers from this bed.
sionals can advise you about what varieties
planting a one-year deal, make it a 10-year
forester's offices, from city mayors and
of trees or shrubs might work best in your
plan."
through chairmen of centennial commit-
situation. They can also give you ideas
tees.
about how to choose the location for your
Plantings in state parks
tree or shrub that will enhance your yard
Participating in state park plantings is
If you plant (or pledge to plant) either
the most.
one more way you can contribute to the
a centennial woods or centennial forest
Pointing out some common sense guide-
centennial. "We are always here, and we
rural wildlife planting on your farm or
lines you should follow when deciding
always need plants," stresses Doug Prchal
ranch during North Dakota's 100th birth-
where to plant a tree or shrub, Becker says,
of the North Dakota Parks and Recreation
day, you'll be eligible for special recog-
"Don't plant under overhead wires; don't
Department. He adds, however, that you
nition in the form of an attractive
plant over sewer lines; always call your
must contact park officials with your ideas
18-by-24-inch weather-resistant sign-a
local utility company before you dig so you
to ensure that plantings are consistent with
thank you for your birthday gift to the state.
don't cut into your phone wire or your cable
each park's long-range plans.
The signs will be presented at your local
TV wire; and don't plant right next to your
To create more awareness of its Arbor
rural electric cooperative's (REC's) annual
garden." Becker explains that if you water
Day activities, Prchal adds that each year
meeting, on behalf of the North Dakota
your garden but not your yard, a tree
throughout the next decade the Parks and
Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives,
planted near the garden will send its
Recreation Department-through the
a sponsor of the project and a member of
growing roots toward the wetter soil and,
media-will highlight one park each year.
the Centennial Decade Trees Committee.
as the tree grows larger, will take the
This Arbor Day, Fort Lincoln State Park
In addition, you'll receive an official
moisture from the garden's borders.
south of Mandan will be the featured park.
centennial woods or forest certificate
Becker cautions homeowners who plan
Prchal stresses, however, that Arbor Day
honoring you for planting a living legacy
to purchase their tree stock from catalogs
plantings will continue in all the parks.
on your very own piece of North Dakota
to make sure the varieties they've selected
"People can participate in these," Prchal
soil.
are native to cold-weather areas. "If they're
adds, "whether as a civic club or whatever
To receive your award, send your name
not, they won't be genetically cold-hearty
it may be. However, if we can't get a local
just as you want it to appear on the sign
enough to be planted up here," he explains.
group to participate, we'll go ahead with
and certificate, to: North Dakota Associa-
Because the goals of the Centennial Tree
the planting ourselves."
tion of Rural Electric Cooperatives, P.O.
Program cover a 10-year-span, Becker en-
The booklet, "The Centennial Tree Pro-
Box 727, Mandan, N.D. 58554. You'll then
courages all tree planters to plan on a large
gram," can tell you about the variety of tree
be notified by mail as to time and place of
scale. Yearly plantings should be aimed to
plantings that will be officially recognized
your local REC annual meeting, at which
contribute to a long-range scheme. "Think
as centennial contributions. It will also tell
time the centennial tree planting signs will
big and divide by 10," urges Becker, a
you where to go to find the technical in-
be presented.
member of the Centennial Decade Trees
formation you need. These booklets are
Committee. "Instead of making your tree
available at district SCS offices, at city
April 1989/ND REC Magazine-47
A man has made at
least a start on
discovering the
meaning of human
life when he plants
shade trees under
which he knows
full well he will
never sit.
Elton Trueblood
Arbor Day Message 2
You can take an extra measure of pride in participating in the Centennial
Tree Program because North Dakota is on the leading edge of a world-wide, tree
planting movement. Tree planting is considered the best low cost method for
combating rising levels of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere, known as
the "greenhouse effect."
When compared with national goals, North Dakota's tree planting commitment
is truly outstanding. In the year 2000 North Dakotan's will have planted
100,000,000 trees...one-million trees for each year of statehood. That
represents about 150 trees for each man, woman and child in North Dakota.
Spread over ten years that amounts to only 15 trees per person per year.
The key to meeting our ambitious goal is to start projects this year that
you and your friends, relatives, co-workers and classmates will add to every
spring. Tree planting professionals all across the state are waiting to assist
you. City foresters, county agents, soil conservationists, wildlife specialists
and many others can help design projects and assist you with cost sharing.
The North Dakota Centennial Commission urges you to become involved this
spring. You can plant trees, or make a donation so that others can plant trees,
or do both. Donations go into the Centennial Trees Trust Fund created by action
of the State Legislature. Contributions of any size should be made out to the
NORTH DAKOTA CENTENNIAL COMMISSION, 2204 East Broadway, Bismarck, ND, 58501.
Tree planting is satisfying work. As the 19th century poet Lucy Larcom
wrote, "Heaven and earth help those who plant a tree, and his work his own
reward shall be."
So, get your hands dirty this spring. Let the planting begin!
(More information: Dennis Neumann 224-2589)
North Dakota Centennial Commission
100th
S.F. "BUCKSHOT" HOFFNER, EXEC. DIR.
NORTH
1889-1989
DAKOTA
2204 EAST BROADWAY
BISMARCK, ND 58501
PHONE: 701-224-2589
CENTENNIAL
1985 North Dakota Centennial Commission
1989 ARBOR DAY MESSAGE
from the
Mr. Arthur A. Link
NORTH DAKOTA CENTENNIAL COMMISSION
Chairperson
Bismarck. ND 58501
224-1624
Lt. Governor
North Dakota Arbor Day is May 5, 1989
Lloyd B. Omdahl
Honorary Member
224-2200
Mr. Larry Erickson
Arbor Day is the time to take action to begin your annual tree
Vice Chalrperson
Minot, ND 58701
722-3335
planting project. The 1989 spring planting season is the time to begin
Mr. Woody Gagnon
Secretary
Bismarck, ND 58501
planting trees as a living legacy for the state Centennial.
255-1751
Mr. Jim Fuglie
Ex-officio member
By now everyone knows that tree planting is the most important
Bismarck, ND 58505
224-2527
thing you can do for the state Centennial. Beautifying and improving
Mr. Harold A. (Hal) Gershman
Grand Forks, ND 58201
O-772-2671: H-775-9732
our surroundings with trees and shrubs is the best way to say happy
Representative John M. Hokana
Oakes, ND 58474
O-783-4328: H-783-4489
100th birthday.
Senator Ray Holmberg
Grand Forks, ND 58201
775-9656
Tree planting has been important since before North Dakota became a
Mr. William C. Kelsch
Mandan. ND 58554
state in 1889. Pioneers, farmers and thoughtful city folks have planted
O-663-9818; H-663-8065
Mr. Peter Kelly McKenzie
nearly all the trees that aren't along the rivers or creeks. Endless
Michigan. ND 58259
259-2214
Senator Corliss Mushik
benefits have come to agriculture and business. North Dakota's abundant
Mandan. ND 58554
663-3115
wildlife depend on trees. And we rely on them for our own personal
Mr. Vem C. Neff
Williston. ND 58801
O-572-3794: H-572-3836
well-being and physical comfort.
Ms.Sher L. Quaday
Fargo. ND 58108
237-3832
Standing tall on the prairie today, many of these beautiful and
Representative Cathy Rydell
Bismarck. ND 58501
useful reminders of the vision of your ancestors were planted on or
255-0733
Mr. Larry Schneider
Bismarck, ND 58501
around Arbor Day.
258-9438
Ms. Shirley Simmons
The Centennial Trees program is rooted in North Dakota's past, but
West Fargo. ND 58078
282-8445
Mr. James E. Sperry
it aims at North Dakota's future. Your efforts should be designed so that
Ex-officio member
Bismarck. ND 58505
224-2667
you can return to plant more trees every year for the next 10 years. By
Ms. Mary Louise Defender Wilson
Shields, ND 58569
854-3861
the turn of the century, in the year 2000, the tradition will be going
strong and North Dakota will have millions of Centennial trees.
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Draft Agenda 14APR89 dn
CENTENNIAL GROVE
DEDICATION
24APR89 2:00pm
((((date and time))))
State Capitol Grounds, Bismarck, ND
Music
A Band to be playing 30 minutes prior to start
Master of Ceremonies
S. F. "Buckshot" Hoffner, Executive Director
NORTH DAKOTA CENTENNIAL COMMISSION
NORTH DAKOTA'S CENTENNIAL TREE PROGRAM
Rural/Wildlife Tree Planting
Arthur A. Link
Community Tree Planting
(((a mayor yet to be selected)))
Individual Tree Planting
Governor George Sinner
TREE PLANTING FOR THE WORLD
Introduction of keynoter
Thomas Kleppe
Keynote speech
President George Bush
Drawing for free tree
CENTENNIAL GREEN ASH
donated by S & B Landscaping of Bismarck
Music
During the musical selection, please follow
the (((Boy Scout))) color guard to the site
of the plaque unveiling.
CENTENNIAL GROVE plaque
Unveiled by President
(Program note: CENTENNIAL GROVE plaque
donated by L & H Manufacturing Co. of
Mandan)
Ceremonial Tree Planting
President leads shoveling followed by
other officials
Tree blessing by a Native American
Free Spruce Seedlings
North Dakota Forest Service
Free balloons
North Dakota Centennial Commission
CENTENNIAL GROVE DEDICATION
SPEECH CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS 17 April 1989 NDCC dn
MASTER OF CEREMONIES, S. F. "Buckshot" Hoffner
Welcome
Program cues & instructions
North Dakota Centennial remarks
Introductions of Centennial Tree Program speakers
RURAL/WILDLIFE TREE PLANTING SPEAKER, Arthur A. Link
Rural and wildlife plantings for the ND Centennial Trees Program
COMMUNITY TREE PLANTING SPEAKER, (((a mayor))
Community involvement in the ND Centennial Trees Program
Significance to cities of CENTENNIAL GROVE designation
INDIVIDUAL TREE PLANTING SPEAKER, Governor George Sinner
Individual tree planting committment for the ND Centennial Trees Pgm.
100,000,000 trees goal by the year 2000
Signing of or that he will sign HB-2114, Towner Nursery Expansion bill
Proclaim the month of May as North Dakota Tree Planting Month
INTRODUCTION OF KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Thomas Kleppe
Welcome and thanks for visiting
Recognition of ND position in relation to national tree effort
Introduction of keynoter
KEYNOTE SPEAKER, President George Bush
Happy 100th birthday North Dakota
Recognition of North Dakota's leadership in creating a far reaching
tree planting program during the state Centennial
Recognition of the public sector/private sector organizational concept
of the ND Centennial Tree Program
Connect tree planting to world-wide environmental need
Announce any program or funding initiatives to assist tree planting,
such as applicable CRP emphasis
Announce applicable Federal appointments
North
Dakota
CENTENNIAL
NATIVE AMERICAN CENTENNIAL LOGO
1889 - 1989
NORTH DAKOTA
Logo artwork by:
Wallace "Butch" Thunderhawk, Jr. - Standing Rock
Logo developed by:
Catherine Fox Harmon - Fort Berthold
Pemina Yellow Bird - Fort Berthold
Charles Gourneau - Turtle Mountain
Mary Louise Defender Wilson - Standing Rock
Explanation by
Mary Louise Defender Wilson
Honorary Centennial Chairperson, Native American Day
written by
James Fenelon
GENERAL PHILOSOPHY
The Centennial Commission's Native American logo represents major
features of the indigenous people who inhabited the area now
called North Dakota.
A close relationship to the land and other natural elements of
life on the northern prairies were, and are, an integral aspect
of everyday life, cultural celebration and spirituality of the
native people. The logo presents some of this philosophy through
the symbols in the pictorial design.
FEATURES OF THE LOGO
Seven elemental symbols are featured in the Native American logo.
Double Hills: the land. Buffalo head: food, philosphy and the
nation. Water: rivers and lakes. Indian Singer: songs and life.
Corn: food and farming. Sun and Moon: the seasons and community
celebration. Pipes: spirituality and the circle of life.
1
DOUBLE HILLS
Native American people understood the earth and its topography to
be organized into patterns with specific influence on life,
culture and origins. An oral tradition says the Hidatsa people
respected life and their origins through the pattern of double
hills, or buttes, found in the western Dakotas. ( A more
complete description, with photos, of the Double Hill pattern and
its geography is included in the addendum. )
This pattern originates from a place, now called Bear Butte, near
the Black Hills in present-day South Dakota. This place is known
as the origin for thunder and lightning energy. The double hills
located near Raleigh, North Dakota, are used by some modern-day
Sioux as a place for inspiration and creative visions. Other
double hills can serve for differ sacred or ceremonial
functions.
BUFFALO HEAD
The buffalo, who once roamed the Dakota plains in herd of great
numbers, were a source of food, shelter, utensils and reverence
for the native people who hunted them.
The Dakota, or Sioux, call the buffalo pte (p tay, see
addendum for other words and explanations), and believe humans
came from the buffalo nation. The skull, as the central image of
the logo, represents the importance of the buffalo in relation to
the earth and the spirituality of the people. It is used in
ceremonies to symbolize this sacred relationship.
Although the great herds of buffalo are now gone, Native
Americans continue to practice the traditional ways. Some tribes
have small herds on their reservations, using the meat for feasts
and celebrations, such as graduation ceremonies. Like Indian
people, the American buffalo are experiencing a revival.
2
WATER
The blue in the front of the logo represents water, the substance
of life for the native people in North Dakota. Besides the great
river Missouri, and the only northward flowing water in North
America the Red River, numerous rivers, creeks and streams
throughout the state have been central to most Indian activities,
such as earth lodge villages and transporation routes.
The Chippewa, or Ojibway people, often live around lakes and in
wooded areas, such as found in the Turtle Mountains. Bodies of
water are thought to have special properties. One such example
is Minnewaukon, a Dakota word meaning powerful and mystical
waters, which in English is called Devil's Lake. (see addendum
for information on translation, stories and Native American
philosophy)
The Missouri, an important traditional boundary for many native
peoples, has been dammed to form huge reservoirs which have
negatively affected American Indian people.
INDIAN SINGER
The spirit of the American Indian people, as well as oral
traditions, ceremonies and history, lives in song. On the logo,
the Indian singer with the hand drum represents all the nations
found in North Dakota. Every tribe has strong traditions rooted
in ceremonial, social and sacred singing and drumming.
Today, Indian people come together to sing, dance and socialize
at pow-wows, held in most communities on every reservation.
Modern drum groups compete in singing contests, such as at United
Tribes in Bismarck, one of the largest pow-wows in North America
were tribes from all over the continent gather.
Sacred songs are still used in traditional ways, such as the
sweat lodge and healing ceremonies. These and other songs
enabled Indian people to survive the hardships of reservation
life, preserving culture for Native Americans to share and
maintain good relationships.
3
CORN
People indigenous to the Dakotas grew many different crops.
One of the most cultivated plants was corn which could be dried
and stored for long periods of time. Many varieties of corn were
grown near villages located on the rivers and tributaries in the
northern plains. Colored flint corn, yellow sweet and flour corn
are some examples.
The Mandan were known to be great farmers, often singing to
plants to improve productivity, such as the Corn song which could
also represent the values and community spirit of an agragarian
society. Plants, expecially corn, were used for other purposes
as well as for food. Husks could become decorations, silk was a
sweetener, pollen became medicine and kernels for ceremonies.
Oral history among Native Americans accounts for the gift of
edible plants having their origins in the Dakota plains. (please
see addendum for one example and its location.) The life spirit
of plants was observed in other crops as well, such as the
sunflower, beans, squash and melons.
SUN AND MOON
The sun and the moon are important cultural symbols for all
Native American people. On the logo, the two are together in the
center with rays spreading throughout the other elements.
With the rising sun begins the day, usually with a prayer of
thanks and blessings for all the activities taking place. As the
sun sets, so do the daily labors among the people. With the moon
comes story-telling and oral history extending back before the
elders memories.
In the northern plains the sun holds a special place for seasonal
celebrations. Wi-wang wacipi, a Sioux word now called the
Sundance, demonstrates this symbiosis between the sun, the moon
and the people. During this time, usually four days in duration,
many powerful and important sacrifices are made by the
participants for the continuance of life and the good of the
people. The Anishinabe, including the Ojibwa or Chippewa, have
continued to practice their four day ceremony acknowledging the
forces of the moon and sun. The Mandan and Hidatsa have revived
their traditions as well, called 0-kee-pa by early white visitors
to the earth lodge dwellers.
All over North Dakota are stone circles, signs of the ancient
traditions which studied the stars, the earth and the seasons.
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PIPES
Encircling the entire logo, much as spirituality is all around
life, are two pipes of peace. The pipe is an integral part of
Indian reverence as well as a symbol for community relations.
The bowl of the pipe is made of stone, the heart of the earth.
Rocks also contain spiritual significance, such as Medicine Rock
and Writing Rock with hieroglyphs from ancient times (see
addendum for pictures and locations). The stem of the pipe is
made of wood and runs in a straight line like the words and deeds
of an honorable person.
There are many traditions concerning the origination of the pipe,
most showing people the way of truth and good intentions. When
white people first came to the Dakotas, the pipe was offered in
this spirit. Later, in the making of peace treaties between
nations, the pipe further represented these honorable qualities
and the promise not to spill blood between those who smoke
together.
Native American Indians have kept this sacred tradition alive,
rejuvenating the sense of community spirit, sharing, truth,
justice and the circle of life.
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ADDENDUM MATERIAL
Contents: #1 ) Double Hills - patterns
#2 ) Buffalo Head - Pte Oyate
#3 ) Water - Minnewakan
#4 ) Corn - Looks like Corncob
#5 ) Pipes - hieroglyphic rock
#1) Double Hills - pattern in North Dakota
A pattern of double hills (or twin buttes) exists in South-
Western North Dakota. This is exemplary of how Native
American people view the earth as being organized. The
locations shown on the map include: at Cannonball, near
Raleigh, Hettinger, Bowman, Dickinson, Twin Buttes and rural
locations (Coffin Buttes and Rainy Mountain).
Please see following map
Photo: Double Hills near Raleigh
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#2) Buffalo Head - Pte
Oral history and creation legends all refer to the original
people and their descendants as "Pte Oyate".
In 1658, the French explorer Radisson, who was the first
European to meet the "Sioux" specifies that "they call
thenselves Tatanka, buffalo" and consequently always refers
to them in his diaries as "the nation of the buffalo".
#3) Water - Devil's Lake
See Eastman story on following five pages, taken from
"Indian Boyhood" by Charles Eastman.
#4) Corn - plant origins
Near present-day Harvey in Wells County, a low and long
butte called "Looks Like a Corncob Hill" by indigenous
people, is an origin place of corn. It is identified as
DeMorales Butte because of a Frenchman's death in 1840.
(see reference map for location)
5) Pipes - hieroglyphic rocks
Three known writing rocks in North Dakota are found near
Leith (Medicine Rock), near Grenora (Writing Rock), and in
Fort Ransom Park (hieroplyphic rocks).
(see reference map for locations)
Photo: Symbols found on Medicine Rock
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The following story, A Legend Of Devil's Lake, is an excerpt
I: A Legend of Devil's Lake
FTER the death of Smoky Day,
old Weyuha was regarded as the
greatest story - teller among the
Wahpeton Sioux.
"Tell me, good Weyuha, a le-
gend of your father's country," I
said to him one evening, for I knew the country
# 3) Water - MINNEWAKAN (Devil's Lake)
which is now known as North Dakota and South-
ern Manitoba was their ancient hunting-ground.
I was prompted by Uncheedah to make this re-
INDIAN BOYHOOD
Charles A. Eastman
Dover Publications
New York, New York
quest, after the old man had eaten in our lodge.
"Many years ago," he began, as he passed the
"Ohiyesa"
pipe to uncle, " we traveled from the Otter-tail to
Minnewakan (Devil's Lake). At that time the
mound was very distinct where Chotanka lies
buried. The people of his immediate band had
taken care to preserve it.
" This mound under which lies the great medi-
cine man is upon the summit of Minnewakan
by
Chantay, the highest hill in all that region. It is
from :
shaped like an animal's heart placed on its base,
with the apex upward.
" The reason why this hill is called Minnewa-
kan Chantay, or the Heart of the Mysterious
Land, I will now tell you. It has been handed
down from generation to generation, far beyond
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Indian Boybood
A Legend of Devil's Lake
165
the memory of our great-grandparents. It was
days. Into this tent he invited the different bands,
in Chotanka's line of descent that these legends
and when they came out they were greatly changed,
were originally kept, but when he died the stories
and some could not talk at all after that. How-
became everybody's, and then no one believed in
ever, there is a sign language given to all the ani-
them. It was told in this way."
mals that no man knows except some medicine
I sat facing him, wholly wrapped in the words
men, and they are under a heavy penalty if they
of the story-teller, and now I took a deep breath
should tell it.
and settled myself so that I might not disturb him
'The buffalo came out of the darkened tent
by the slightest movement while he was reciting
the clumsiest of all the animals. The elk and
his tale. We were taught this courtesy to our
moose were burdened with their heavy and many-
elders, but I was impulsive and sometimes forgot.
branched horns, while the antelope and deer were
" A long time ago," resumed Weyuha, the
made the most defenseless of animals, only that
red people were many in number, and they inhabi-
they are fleet of foot. The bear and the wolf
ted all the land from the coldest place to the re-
were made to prey upon all the others.
gion of perpetual summer time. It seemed that
" Man was alone then. When the change
they were all of one tongue, and all were friends.
came, the Great Mystery allowed him to keep his
" All the animals were considered people in those
own shape and language. He was king over all
days. The buffalo, the elk, the antelope, were
the animals, but they did not obey him. From
tribes of considerable importance. The bears were
that day, man's spirit may live with the beasts be-
a smaller band, but they obeyed the mandates of
fore he is born a man. He will then know the
the Great Mystery and were his favorites, and for
animal language but he cannot tell it in human
this reason they have always known more about
speech. He always retains his sympathy with
the secrets of medicine. So they were held in
them, and can converse with them in dreams.
much honor. The wolves, too, were highly re-
I must not forget to tell you that the Great
garded at one time. But the buffalo, elk, moose,
Mystery pitched his tent in this very region.
deer and antelope were the ruling people.
Some legends say that the Minnewakan Chantay
"These soon became conceited and considered
was the tent itself, which afterward became earth
themselves very important, and thought no one
and stones. Many of the animals were washed
could withstand them. The buffalo made war up-
and changed in this lake, the Minnewakan, or
on the smaller tribes, and destroyed many. So one
Mysterious Water. It is the only inland water
day the Great Mystery thought it best to change
we know that is salt. No animal has ever swam
the people in form and in language.
in this lake and lived."
He made a great tent and kept it dark for ten
"Tell me," I eagerly asked, is it dangerous
to man also?"
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Indian Boyhood
A Legend of Devil's Lake
167
"Yes," he replied, we think so; and no In-
dug some roots and ate them and she was well
dian has ever ventured in that lake to my know-
again.' It was thus that Chotanka was first taught
ledge. That is why the lake is called Mysterious,"
the use of certain roots for curing wounds and
sickness," Weyuha added.
he repeated.
"I shall now tell you of Chotanka. He was
One day' "-he resumed the grizzly's story
the greatest of medicine men. He declared that
___ when I was out hunting with my mother-
he was a grizzly bear before he was born in human
my father had gone away and never came back
-we found a buffalo cow with her calf in a
form." Weyuha seemed to become very earnest
when he reached this point in his story. " Listen
ravine. She advised me to follow her closely,
to Chotanka's life as a grizzly bear."
and we crawled along on our knees. All at once
" As a bear,' he used to say, my home was
mother crouched down under the grass, and I did
in sight of the Minnewakan Chantay. I lived
the same. We saw some of those queer beings
with my mother only one winter, and I only saw
that we called two legs," riding upon big-tail
my father when I was a baby. Then we lived a
deer (ponies). They yelled as they rode toward us.
little way from the Chantay to the north, among
Mother growled terribly and rushed upon them.
scattered oak upon a hillside overlooking the
She caught one, but many more came with their
Minnewakan.
dogs and drove us into a thicket. They sent the
" When I first remember anything, I was
red. willows singing after us, and two of them stuck
playing outside of our home with a buffalo skull
in mother's side. When we got away at last she
that I had found near by. I saw something that
tried to pull them out, but they hurt her terribly.
looked strange. It walked upon two legs, and it
She pulled them both out at last, but soon after
carried a crooked stick, and some red willows with
she lay down and died.
feathers tied to them. It threw one of the wil-
I stayed in the woods alone for two days
lows at me, and I showed my teeth and retreated
then I went around the Minnewakan Chantay on
within our den.
the south side and there made my lonely den.
Just then my father and mother came home
There I found plenty of hazel nuts, acorns and
with a buffalo calf. They threw down the dead
wild plums. Upon the plains the teepsinna were
calf, and ran after the queer thing. He had long
abundant, and I saw nothing of my enemies.
hair upon a round head. His face was round, too.
One day I found a footprint not unlike my
He ran and climbed up into a small oak tree.
own. I followed it to see who the stranger might
" My father and mother shook him down, but
be. Upon the bluffs among the oak groves I dis-
not before he had shot some of his red willows
covered a beautiful young female gathering acorns.
into their sides. Mother was very sick, but she
She was of a different band from mine, for she
wore a jet black dress.
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Indian Boybood
A Legend of Devil's Lake
169
"At first she was disposed to resent my intru-
old, old wrinkled man came to Chotanka's door.
sion; but when I told her of my lonely life she
He leaned forward upon his staff.
agreed to share it with me. We came back to my
My son,' he said to him, 'I don't want to
home on the south side of the hill. There we
make you a coward, but this young man is the
lived happy for a whole year. When the autumn
greatest gambler of the universe. He has pow-
came again Wōshepee, for this was her name, said
erful medicine. He gambles for life; be careful !
that she must make a warm nest for the winter,
My brothers and I are the only ones who have
and I was left alone again.'
ever beaten him. But he is safe, for if he is
"Now," said Weyuha, " I have come to a part
killed he can resurrect himself-I tell you he is
of my story that few people understand. All the
great medicine.
long winter Chotanka slept in his den, and with
'However, I think that I can save you-lis-
the early spring there came a great thunder storm.
ten ! He will run behind you all the way until
He was aroused by a frightful crash that seemed
you are within a short distance of the goal. Then
to shake the hills; and lo ! a handsome young
he will pass you by in a flash, for his name is Zig-
man stood at his door. He looked, but was not
Zag Fire ! (lightning). Here is my medicine.' So
afraid, for he saw that the stranger carried none of
speaking, he gave me a rabbit skin and the gum
those red willows with feathered tips. He was
of a certain. plant. When you come near the
unarmed and smiling.
goal, rub yourself with the gum, and throw the
" I come,' said he, with a challenge to run a
rabbit skin between you. He cannot pass you.'
race. Whoever wins will be the hero of his kind,
" And who are you, grandfather Chotanka
and the defeated must do as the winner says there-
inquired.
after. This is a rare honor that I have brought
I am the medicine turtle,' the old man re-
you. The whole world will see the race. The
plied. 'The gambler is a spirit from heaven, and
animal world will shout for you, and the spirits
those whom he outruns must shortly die. You
will cheer me on. You are not a coward, and
have heard, no doubt, that all animals know be-
therefore you will not refuse my challenge.'
forehand when they are to be killed ; and any man
No,' replied Chotanka, after a short hesita-
who understands these mysteries may also know
tion. The young man was fine-looking, but
when he is to die.'
lightly built.
"The race was announced to the world. The
We shall start from the Chantay, and that will
buffalo, elk, wolves and all the animals came to
be our goal. Come, let us go, for the universe is
look on. All the spirits of the air came also to
waiting !' impatiently exclaimed the stranger.
cheer for their comrade. In the sky the trumpet
"He passed on in advance, and just then an
was sounded-the great medicine drum was struck.
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It was the signal for a start. The course was
around the Minnewakan. (That means around
the earth or the ocean.) Everywhere the multi-
tude cheered as the two sped by.
" The young man kept behind Chotanka all the
time until they came once more in sight of the
Chantay. Then he felt a slight shock and he threw
his rabbit skin back. The stranger tripped and fell.
Chotanka rubbed himself with the gum, and ran on
until he reached the goal. There was a great shout
that echoed over the earth, but in the heavens there
was muttering and grumbling. The referee de-
clared that the winner would live to a good old age,
and Zig-Zag Fire promised to come at his call. He
was indeed great medicine," Weyuha concluded.
" But you have not told me how Chotanka be-
came a man," I said.
" One night a beautiful woman came to him in
his sleep. She enticed him into her white teepee
to see what she had there. Then she shut the
door of the teepee and Chotanka could not get
out. But the woman was kind and petted him so
that he loved to stay in the white teepee. Then
it was that he became a human born. This is a
long story, but I think, Ohiyesa, that you will re-
member it," said Weyuha, and so I did.
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P.O. Box 238
(Leather)
& SPECIALTY'S
Payson, UT 84651
Mary Simonson
Larry Duhamel
1-800-262-5394
209 Second Street SE
P.O. Box 2107
Valley City, ND 58072
Minot, ND 58702
BILLFOLDS
(701) 845-1124
(701) 839-8916
OPEN DOOR CENTER
PRAIRIE LEATHER STUDIO
(Leather)
(Leather-Attache Case)
CHECKBOOK COVERS
Mary Simonson
Robb Barr
PRAIRIE LEATHER STUDIO
209 Second Street SE
1611 North 16th Street
(Leather)
Valley City, ND 58072
Bismarck, ND 58501
Robb Barr
(701) 845-1124
(701) 223-8303
1611 North 16th Street
PRAIRIE LEATHER STUDIO
CALENDARS
Bismarck, ND 58501
(Wallet-Leather)
(701) 223-8303
*
Robb Barr
CENTENNIAL ART CALENDAR, INC.
1611 North 16th Street
(ND Centennial Art Calendar of Events)
CHEESE BOARDS
Bismarck, ND 58501
Marilyn Shine
OPEN DOOR CENTER
(701) 223-8303
P.O. Box 12
Hazen, ND 58545
Mary Simonson
(701) 748-6878
209 Second Street SE
BLANKETS
Valley City, ND 58072
G. R. HERBERGERS, INC.
*
FLINT COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
(701) 845-1124
(Biederlack Throws)
(The Centennial Calendar of North Dakota
Jim D. Helphrey
History, The Official North Dakota History
CIGARETTE CASES
P.O. Box 6267
Calendar)
PRAIRIE LEATHER STUDIO
Bismarck, ND 58502
Roger A. Reierson
(Leather)
(701) 223-4665
Black Building Suite 206
Robb Barr
Fargo, ND 58102
BONNETS
1611 North 16th Street
SELF-HELP ASSOCIATION
Bismarck, ND 58501
SELF-HELP ASSOCIATION
(Cloth Printed)
(701) 223-8303
Corrine Keiser
Corrine Keiser
P.O. Box 5072
P.O. Box 5072
Grand Forks, ND 58206
Grand Forks, ND 58206
(701) 775-9556
(701) 775-9556
CLOCKS
COOLERS
DUSTERS
A & B CRAFTS
SALES INCORPORATED
COUNTRY CREATIONS
(Display Clock)
(Pocket Super Cooler & Small Super Cooler)
(Cowboy Old Time Canvas-Trim: Corduroy,
Burton Borgerson
Bryce Risser
Elk Leather)
908 Second Street East
P.O. Box 506
A. C. Lane
West Fargo, ND 58078
Valley City, ND 58072
P.O. Box 148
(701) 282-4943
Victor, MT 59875
COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY
COUNTED CROSS-STITCHED LOGO KITS
(406) 642-3751
Ron Hohbein
L N L DESIGNS
P.O. Box 856
ENVELOPES
Ellen Lange, Lois Schwarz
Bismarck, ND 58502
R.R. 3, Box 176
CURTIS 1000
(701) 222-1200
Jamestown, ND 58401
(Drive-in Envelopes)
LASERFORM
(701) 763-6544
Joel Whitmore
(Laser-Engraved Clocks)
P.O. Box 64109
Tom Laber
CREAM & SUGAR SETS
St. Paul, MN 55164
22359 Meekland Avenue
(612) 483-6651
AUDREY CHINA
Hayward, CA 94541
Audrey Savelkoul
MAIL-WELL ENVELOPE COMPANY
1-800-523-4604
R.R. 1, Box 85
(Envelopes with inside tint.)
NATURAL ART
Lansford, ND 58750
Bill Noble
(Centennial)
(701) 784-5495
3500 Rockmont Drive
Robert L. Meter
Denver, co 80202
PERMANENT MEMORIES
619 North Hannifin
(303) 455-3505
(Porcelain)
Bismarck, ND 58501
Ed Westfall
(701) 255-4273
FLAGS
P.O. Box 646
JED ALAN SWEGARDEN
Cooperstown, ND 58425
* ND CENTENNIAL COMMISSION
(Centennial Oak Clock)
(701) 797-2545
S. F. "Buckshot" Hoffner
Jed Alan Swegarden
2204 East Broadway
P.O. Box 554
CUPS
Bismarck, ND 58501
Casselton, ND 58012
(701) 224-2589
COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY
(701) 347-5584
(20 oz. Plastic Reusable Cup)
VIP INSPIRATIONS, INC.
WOODCRAFT
Ron Hohbein
(Centennial Car Flags)
Lyle M. Berg
P.O. Box 856
Kathie Larson
207 Arbor Avenue, #302
Bismarck, ND 58502
P.O. Box 88411
Bismarck, ND 58504
(701) 222-1200
Atlanta, GA 30356-8411
(701) 223-1345
(404) 395-1172
DAKOTALAND MARKETING
(Native American Centennial Logo; Ceramic
FOODS
COASTER SETS
& Tin)
PRAIRIE LEATHER STUDIO
David Garner
BRIDGEMAN CREAMERIES
3535 East Divide
(Ice Cream)
(Leather)
Bismarck, ND 58501
Charles Stein
Robb Barr
(701) 223-1937
P.O. Box 488
1611 North 16th Street
Grand Forks, ND 58201
Bismarck, ND 58501
CUP & SAUCER SETS
(701) 775-4301
(701) 223-8303
AUDREY CHINA
BUXTON FOODS
COIN CASES
(French Limoge, Demi Tasse)
(Combination Baked Pinto Beans & Clover-
Audrey Savelkoul
dale Polish Sausage)
PRAIRIE LEATHER STUDIO
R.R. 1, Box 85
Paul Siewert
(Leather)
Lansford, ND 58750
401 Broadway
Robb Barr
(701) 784-5495
Buxton, ND 58218
1611 North 16th Street
(701) 847-2110
Bismarck, ND 58501
PERMANENT MEMORIES
(701) 223-8303
(Porcelain)
MYERS MEATS & SPECIALTIES
Ed Westfall
(Beef Jerky & Beef Sausage Sticks)
P.O. Box 646
Calvin Myers
COINS
Cooperstown, ND 58425
R.R. 1, Box 132
* ND Centennial Commission
(701) 797-2545
Parshall, ND 58770
S. F. "Buckshot" Hoffner
(701) 743-4451
2204 East Broadway
DECALS
SONNE LABS, INC.
Bismarck, ND 58501
(701) 224-2589
SURPLUS TRACTOR PARTS CORP.
(ND Nuts)
Stanley Goodman
Jay Schuler
P.O. Box 310
3215 West Main Avenue
COFFEE CUPS & MUGS
Fargo, ND 58103
Wahpeton, ND 58074
(701) 642-3068
BLAKETCH
(701) 235-7503
(Glass Coffee Mug)
FORKS
Blake Running
DECANTERS
315 Ninth Avenue
RAINBOW FUND RAISERS
Helena, MT 59601
CONGRESS INC./McCormic Distilling Co.
(Silverplated)
(406) 443-6468
(Custer Centennial Decanter)
Cheryl Gjevre
W.M. Register
P.O. Box 159
BRICKMAN BUSINESS FORMS &
P.O. Box 399
Drayton, ND 58225
SPECIALTY'S
Grand Forks, ND 58201
(701) 454-3891
(Centennial Logo & Native American
(701) 775-7141
Centennial Logo; Scarborough Collection)
GLASSWARE
Larry Duhamel
DOLLS
P.O. Box 2107
BRICKMAN BUSINESS FORMS &
Minot, ND 58702
NANCY EAGLESON
SPECIALTIES
(701) 839-8916
(Porcelain Dolls)
(Starburst Glass Tankard)
100A HCR1
Larry Duhamel
PERMANENT MEMORIES
Milton, ND 58260
P.O. Box 2107
(Coffee Cup-Milk Glass Style)
(701) 496-3243
Minot, ND 58702
Ed Westfall
P.O. Box 646
JoAnn Wakeford
(701) 839-8916
Cooperstown, ND 58425
Osnabrook, ND 58269
O'BRIAN'S TAVERN, LTD
(701) 797-2545
Gloria O'Keefe
Robert Martinson
Crystal, ND 58222
1059 East Interstate Avenue
SELF-HELP ASSOCIATION
Bismarck, ND 58501
(Coffee Mugs)
MARY SIMONS & SANDY KREIN
(701) 258-5700
Corrine Keiser
(Porcelain)
P.O. Box 5072
Mary Simons & Sandy Krein
Grand Forks, ND 58206
110 Avenue D East
(701) 775-9556
Bismarck, ND 58501
(701) 258-6155
HANGERS
LIEN GAMES, INC.
LETTER OPENERS
OPEN DOOR CENTER
(Charitable Gaming Tickets)
(Wood)
Ken Lien
DAKOTALAND MARKETING
Mary Simonson
P.O. Box 564
(Native American Centennial Logo)
David Garner
209 Second Street SE
Fargo, ND 58107
3535 East Divide
Valley City, ND 58072
(701) 232-7755
Bismarck, ND 58501
(701) 845-1124
PALACE SUPPLY INC.
(701) 223-1937
Kristi Nogowski
RAINBOW FUND RAISERS
HATS
1002 43rd Street SW
ALLARD TROPHY COMPANY
Fargo, ND 58103
(Silverplated)
(701) 281-0408
Cheryl Gjevre
(Gatsby)
P.O. Box 159
Roger Bischoff
KERCHIEF SLIDE
Drayton, ND 58225
P.O. Box 412
(701) 454-3891
Valley City, ND 58072
DAKOTALAND MARKETING
(701) 845-3303
(Native American Centennial Logo)
LETTER WRITING FOLDERS
David Garner
MICHAEL P. DANER
PRAIRIE LEATHER STUDIO
3535 East Divide
(Straw Fishing Hat)
(Leather)
William J. Daner
Bismarck, ND 58501
Robb Barr
(701) 223-1937
1013 East Highland Acres Road
1611 North 16th Street
Bismarck, ND 58501
Bismarck, ND 58501
KEY HOLDERS & RINGS
(701) 223-8983
(701) 223-8303
BRICKMAN BUSINESS FORMS &
LICENSE PLATES
HONEY POTS
SPECIALTIES
* ND CENTENNIAL COMMISSION
ARLENE'S CERAMICS
(Key Tag)
(Ceramic)
Larry Duhamel
(Commemorative)
P.O. Box 2107
S.F. "Buckshot" Hoffner
Arlene Tvedt
R.R. 3W, Box 212
Minot, ND 58702
2204 East Broadway
(701) 839-8916
Bismarck, ND 58501
Williston, ND 58801
(701) 224-2589
(701) 572-7573
DAKOTALAND MARKETING
(Native American Centennial Logo; Key Fob)
LOGOS
JACKETS
David Garner
GARY SATERN
3535 East Divide
ALLARD TROPHY COMPANY
(Framed-Embroidered)
(Silkscreened)
Bismarck, ND 58501
(701) 223-1937
Gary Satern
Roger Bischoff
1017 East Bowen
P.O. Box 412
DAVIS & ASSOCIATES
Bismarck, ND 58504
Valley City, ND 58072
(ND Centennial License Plate Key Chains)
(701) 258-3307
(701) 845-3303
Eric Davis
ND STATE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
P.O. Box 238
AUDREY CHINA
(Framed)
Audrey Savelkoul
Payson, UT 84651
1-800-262-5394
Walt Odegaard
R.R. 1, Box 85
Mandan, ND 58554
Lansford, ND 58750
J-MONT BUSINESS SERVICES
(701) 667-1401
(701) 784-5495
(Key Chain-Button Style)
Doug Skroch
MAGNETS - REFRIGERATOR
CAPSCO PRODUCTS INC.
1506 North 21st Street
AUDREY CHINA
(Silkscreened, Embroidered; ND Great Seal)
P.O. Box 30
Bismarck, ND 58501
(Flat, Oval, & Round Mixture; Round Plate
(701) 223-6332
Bismarck, ND 58502
Style)
(701) 222-4484
LASERFORM
Audrey Savelkoul
DAKOTA COLLECTIBLES
(Key Tags, Laser Engraved)
R.R. 1, Box 85
Tom Laber
Lansford, ND 58750
(Embroidered)
22359 Meekland Avenue
(701) 784-5495
Gerald Westphal
604 Kirkwood Plaza
Hayward, CA 94541
J-MONT BUSINESS SERVICES
1-800-523-4604
Bismarck, ND 58504
(Button Style)
(701) 224-9061
OPEN DOOR CENTER
Doug Skroch
(Leather Key Holders & Wood Key Rings)
1506 North 21st Street
DAKOTA MONOGRAMMING/DAKOTA
Mary Simonson
Bismarck, ND 58501
CLOTHING
209 Second Street SE
(701) 223-6332
(Embroidered)
Valley City, ND 58072
SELF-HELP ASSOCIATION
Bruce G. Quale
(701) 845-1124
Corrine Keiser
P.O. Box 493
Watford City, ND 58854
PRAIRIE LEATHER STUDIO
P.O. Box 5072
(701) 842-2275
(Leather Key Case & Key Tab)
Grand Forks, ND 58206
Robb Barr
(701) 775-9556
DAKOTALAND MARKETING
1611 North 16th Street
(Native American Centennial Logo;
MAPS
Bismarck, ND 58501
Silkscreened, 3 Styles)
(701) 223-8303
ROBERT J. MCTIGUE
David Garner
(Early ND Map)
3535 East Divide
RAINBOW FUND RAISERS
Robert J. McTigue
Bismarck, ND 58501
(Silverplated)
204 Beech Street
(701) 223-1937
Cheryl Gjevre
Mankato, MN 56001
P.O. Box 159
S & S SPECIALTY'S, INC.
(507) 387-2570
(King Louie; Vermont Style; Screenprinted)
Drayton, ND 58225
(701) 454-3891
MATS - ENTRY
Brad Ness & Ken Toszek
P.O. Box 2923
AMERICAN LINEN SUPPLY COMPANY
KNIVES
Fargo, ND 58108
Reuben Mohn
(701) 280-1916
RAY ENNIS
P.O. Box 2033
Ray Ennis
Bismarck, ND 58502
JARS
509 South Third Street
(701) 258-6505
Grand Forks, ND 58201
DART, INC.
(701) 772-1625
MIRRORS
(1 qt. High Stone Jar)
GUN & REEL SPORTS, INC.
J-MONT BUSINESS SERVICES
R. Charles Adams
(Buck Knife)
(Button Style)
P.O. Box 220
Henderson, NE 68371
Douglas Schlager
Doug Skroch
P.O. Box 1957
1506 North 21st Street
1-800-228-0086
(402) 723-5395
Jamestown, ND 58402
Bismarck, ND 58501
(701) 252-2850
(701) 223-6332
JAR TICKETS
MUGS
LETTER HOLDERS
AMUSEMENT INC.
AUDREY CHINA
(Jar-O-Do Jar Tickets)
AUDREY CHINA
(Plain, Covered-China)
Michael Fugere
Audrey Savelkoul
R.R. 1, Box 85
Audrey Savelkoul
P.O. Box 7223
Lansford, ND 58750
R.R. 1, Box 85
Fargo, ND 58103
(701) 784-5495
Lansford, ND 58750
(701) 237-6858
(701) 784-5495
CAPSCO PRODUCTS INC.
RAINBOW FUND RAISERS
RAINBOW FUND RAISERS
(ND Great Seal)
(3" Christmas Ball Ornament)
Cheryl Gjevre
P.O. Box 30
Cheryl Gjevre
P.O. Box 159
Bismarck, ND 58502
P.O. Box 159
Drayton, ND 58225
(701) 222-4484
Drayton, ND 58225
(701) 454-3891
DAKOTALAND MARKETING
(701) 454-3891
PEN & PENCIL SETS
(Native American Centennial Logo; Ceramic
SPORTS PROMOTIONS II
& Glass)
(Christmas Ornaments)
BRICKMAN BUSINESS FORMS &
David Garner
Ed Trombley
SPECIALTY'S
3535 East Divide
4958 North County Road 18
(2 Kt. Gold Plated)
Bismarck, ND 58501
New Hope, MN 55428
Larry Duhamel
(701) 223-1937
(612) 535-8983
P.O. Box 2107
Minot, ND 58702
DART, INC.
OX-YOKES
(701) 839-8916
(12 oz. Black Ceramic Mug)
R. Charles Adams
BRUGY-WOOD
HAMILTON INDUSTRIES
P.O. Box 220
(Redwood Ox-Yokes)
(Lucite Pen Set)
Henderson, NE 68371
David A. Bruggeman
Tom Hamilton
1-800-228-0086
P.O. Box 88443
711 Colton Avenue
(402) 723-5395
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
Burlington, ND 58722
(605) 336-6235
(701) 838-2267
PERMANENT MEMORIES
(Porcelain)
OPEN DOOR CENTER
PAINTINGS
Ed Westfall
Mary Simonson
P.O. Box 646
AGNES'S ARTS & CRAFTS
209 Second Street SE
Cooperstown, ND 58425
(Reversed Glass Painting; State Flower
Valley City, ND 58072
(701) 797-2545
& Bird)
(701) 845-1124
Agnes Leik
RAINBOW FUND RAISERS
RAINBOW FUND RAISERS
610 Kirkwood Plaza
(Colbolt Blue-Porcelain)
Bismarck, ND 58504
(Wood-Laser Engraved)
Cheryl Gjevre
(701) 258-0988
Cheryl Gjevre
P.O. Box 159
P.O. Box 159
Drayton, ND 58225
ALLEY BERTSCH
Drayton, ND 58225
(701) 454-3891
("ND Architects")
(701) 454-3891
Alley Bertsch
WOODCRAFT
MINIATURES
1720 Fourth Street
Minot, ND 58701
(Single & Double Pen Sets)
(Wooden Miniatures)
(701) 852-1885
Lyle M. Berg
Sandi Weisenberger
207 Arbor Avenue, #302
301 Nova Drive
GENEVIEVE DUFFEY
Bismarck, ND 58504
Bismarck, ND 58501
(Meadowlark-Oil)
(701) 223-1345
(701) 222-8348
Genevieve (Jenny) Duffey
R.R. 1
PENCIL HOLDERS
NAPKIN HOLDERS
Esmond, ND 58332
AUDREY CHINA
AUDREY CHINA
(701) 249-3487
(Pencil Holder)
Audrey Savelkoul
PANS
Audrey Savelkoul
R.R. 1, Box 85
R.R. 1, Box 85
Lansford, ND 58750
PERMANENT MEMORIES
Lansford, ND 58750
(701) 784-5495
(Crumb-Porcelain)
(701) 784-5495
Ed Westfall
NAPKINS
P.O. Box 646
OPEN DOOR CENTER
ED PHILLIPS & SONS OF ND
Cooperstown, ND 58425
Mary Simonson
(701) 797-2545
209 Second Street SE
(Cocktail & Dinner-Centennial)
Valley City, ND 58072
Vance O. Sannes
PAPER CLIP HOLDERS
(701) 845-1124
P.O. Box 1978
Fargo, ND 58107
AUDREY CHINA
(701) 232-2533
Audrey Savelkoul
PHOTO ALBUMS
R.R. 1, Box 85
PRAIRIE LEATHER STUDIO
NOTE CARDS
Lansford, ND 58750
(Leather)
GALLERY WEST
(701) 784-5495
Robb Barr
(Box of 8)
OPEN DOOR CENTER
1611 North 16th Street
George Rohde
Mary Simonson
Bismarck, ND 58501
West Acres Shopping Center
209 Second Street SE
(701) 223-8303
Fargo, ND 58103
Valley City, ND 58072
(701) 282-7181
(701) 845-1124
PINS
PRAIRIE LEATHER STUDIO
BRICKMAN BUSINESS FORMS
PAPERWEIGHTS
(Box of 12 Centennial Note Cards)
& SPECIALTY'S
Robb Barr
DART, INC.
(Native American Centennial Logo Lapel Pin)
1611 North 16th Street
(Walnut Paperweight with Bronze Centennial
Larry Duhamel
Bismarck, ND 58501
Buckle; Centennial Logo & ND Great Seal)
P.O. Box 2107
(701) 223-8303
R. Charles Adams
Minot, ND 58702
P.O. Box 220
(701) 839-8916
NOTE PAD HOLDERS
Henderson, NE 68371
J-MONT BUSINESS SERVICES
OPEN DOOR CENTER
1-800-228-0086
(Button Style)
Mary Simonson
(402) 723-5395
Doug Skroch
209 Second Street SE
S & S SPECIALTY'S, INC.
1506 North 21st Street
Valley City, ND 58072
(Lucite)
Bismarck, ND 58501
(701) 845-1124
Brad Ness & Ken Toczek
(701) 223-6332
P.O. Box 2923
* ND CENTENNIAL COMMISSION
ORNAMENTS
Fargo, ND 58108
(Lapel Pin)
AUDREY CHINA
(701) 280-1916
S. F. "Buckshot" Hoffner
(Christmas)
PATCHES - LOGO
2204 East Broadway
Audrey Savelkoul
Bismarck, ND 58501
R.R. 1, Box 85
CAPSCO PRODUCTS INC.
(701) 224-2589
Lansford, ND 58750
P.O. Box 30
(701) 784-3495
Bismarck, ND 58502
PISTOLS
NANCY EAGLESON
(701) 222-4484
S & S SPECIALTY'S, INC.
(Porcelain)
Nancy Eagleson
PENS
(Ruger 44 Magnum Super Blackhawk Pistol)
Brad Ness & Ken Toczek
100A HCR1
D & S ENTERPRISES
P.O. Box 2923
Milton, ND 58260
(Centennial)
Fargo, ND 58108
(701) 496-3243
Sharon A. Murphy
(701) 280-1916
Gloria O'Keefe
P.O. Box 1718
Crystal, ND 58222
Dickinson, ND 58601
(701) 225-4320
PITCHERS
VIKI ANN SPECIALTIES
NELLIE SOLBERG STUDIO
ARLENE'S CERAMICS
(ND State Seal; 3 Limited Editions,
(ND Wild Prairie Rose Print)
(China)
Numbered Collectors)
Nellie Solberg
Arlene Tvedt
Geneva Linington
925 North Sixth Street
R.R. 3W, Box 212
818 Fourth Avenue NW
Bismarck, ND 58501
Williston, ND 58801
Minot, ND 58701
(701) 223-1778
(701) 572-7573
(701) 839-2477
* PERCEPTION WEST
(Official Centennial Prints; Limited Edition)
DART, INC.
PLATTERS
Burdette Calkins
(1 qt. Stone Pitcher)
LEE WAYNE COMPANY, INC.
1127 Jefferson Avenue
R. Charles Adams
(Pewter)
Bismarck, ND 58504
P.O. Box 220
Mark Forkner
(701) 255-1889
Henderson, NE 68371
1337 Tenth Street South
1-800-228-0086
PRAIRIE LEATHER STUDIO
(402) 723-5395
Fargo, ND 58103
Robb Barr
(701) 232-4355
1611 North 16th Street
PLACEMATS
PERMANENT MEMORIES
Bismarck, ND 58501
ED PHILLIPS & SONS OF ND
(Large, Small-Porcelain)
(701) 223-8303
Ed Westfall
(Centennial)
P.O. Box 646
PURSES
Vance O. Sannes
Cooperstown, ND 58425
P.O. Box 1978
PRAIRIE LEATHER STUDIO
(701) 797-2545
Fargo, ND 58107
(Ladies Clutch Also-Leather)
(701) 232-2533
Robb Barr
POST CARDS
1611 North 16th Street
PLAQUES
WALLY KRAMER
Bismarck, ND 58501
LEONARD BECKLER
(Post Cards of Stained Glass Windows)
(701) 223-8303
(ND Soil Plaque-Wood)
Wally Kramer
Leonard Beckler
330 Winnipeg Drive
PUZZLES
HCR 2, P.O. Box 52
Bismarck, ND 58501
CENCO PUZZLES
St. Anthony, ND 58566
(701) 258-8624
Cherry A. Monson
(701) 445-7464
SAKS NEWS, INC.
R.R. 1, Box 8-A
WALLY KRAMER
(Centennial Logo & Native American
Warwick, ND 58381
(Bronze, Silver)
Centennial Logo)
(701) 294-2396
Wally Kramer
Arnold Dockter
OPEN DOOR CENTER
3301 Winnipeg Drive
P.O. Box 1857
Mary Simonson
Bismarck, ND 58501
Bismarck, ND 58502
209 Second Street SE
(701) 258-8624
(701) 223-0818
Valley City, ND 58072
LASERFORM
(701) 845-1124
POSTERS
(Laser Engraved)
Tom Laber
ADVERTISING MANAGEMENT
RECIPE BOXES
22359 Meekland Avenue
SERVICES, INC.
OPEN DOOR CENTER
Hayward, CA 94541
Robert Saueressig
Mary Simonson
1-800-523-4604
207 East Broadway
209 Second Street SE
Bismarck, ND 58502
OPEN DOOR CENTER
Valley City, ND 58072
(701) 255-3067
(Wood)
(701) 845-1124
Mary Simonson
MARK HAMILTON ENTERPRISES
209 Second Street SE
Mark Hamilton
REFERENCE BOOKS ON TRACTORS
Valley City, ND 58072
711 Colter
SURPLUS TRACTOR PARTS CORP.
(701) 845-1124
Burlington, ND 58722
Stanley Goodman
(701) 838-2267
RAINBOW FUND RAISERS
3215 West Main Avenue
(Wood-Laser Engraved)
NODAK PRINTING
Fargo, ND 58103
Cheryl Gjevre
Mike Gackle
(701) 235-7503
P.O. Box 159
R.R. 1, Box 24
Drayton, ND 58225
Garrison, ND 58540
RIBBONS & ROSETTES
(701) 454-3891
(701) 337-5439
BUTTONS BY FISH
Frank Fish
PLATES
POTTERY
P.O. Box 338
AUDREY CHINA
KEN'S FLOWER SHOP
Watford City, ND 58854
(Colbolt Blue, Collectors, Beaded)
Bruce Rittel
(701) 842-2304
Audrey Savelkoul
214 East Main
RIFLES
R.R. 1, Box 85
Bismarck, ND 58501
Lansford, ND 58750
(701) 255-1130
DUMONT COMMEMORATIVE RIFLES
(701) 784-5495
(1866 Winchester "Yellowboy")
PRINTS - ART
Charles Schafer
NANCY EAGLESON
P.O. Box 1263
(Porcelain)
CREATIVE UNIT
Minot, ND 58702
Nancy Eagleson
("Early ND Print")
(306) 664-4514 (Canada)
100A HCR1
George M. Fredin
Milton, ND 58260
508 Sixth Street South
OUTDOORSMAN
(701) 496-3243
Moorhead, MN 56560
(Browning Model 71)
Gloria O'Keefe
(218) 236-7492
Kevin Steen & Jack Engan
Village West Shopping Center
Crystal, ND 58222
JAMES R. DAWSON
Fargo, ND 58103
PERMENANT MEMORIES
("Weapons of A Democracy and Tools of
(701) 282-0131
(Limited Edition; Porcelain)
Protection")
Ed Westfall
James R. Dawson
S & S SPECIALTY'S, INC.
P.O. Box 646
P.O. Box 1820
(Winchester Model 94)
Cooperstown, ND 58425
Fargo, ND 58107
Brad Ness & Ken Toczek
(701) 237-3311
P.O. Box 2923
(701) 797-2545
Fargo, ND 58108
RAINBOW FUND RAISERS
WALLY KRAMER
(701) 280-1916
(4 Collectors; Porcelain)
(Prints of Stained Glass Windows)
Cheryl Gjevre
Wally Kramer
SALT & PEPPER SHAKERS
P.O. Box 159
3301 Winnipeg Drive
AUDREY CHINA
Drayton, ND 58225
Bismarck, ND 58501
(701) 454-3891
(701) 258-8624
Audrey Savelkoul
R.R. 1, Box 85
SELF-HELP ASSOCIATION
MARK HAMILTON ENTERPRISES
Lansford, ND 58750
Corrine Keiser
(Mini Prints)
(701) 784-5495
P.O. Box 5072
Mark Hamilton
SELF-HELP ASSOCIATION
Grand Forks, ND 58206
711 Colton
Corrine Keiser
(701) 775-9556
Burlington, ND 58722
(701) 838-2267
P.O. Box 5072
Grand Forks, ND 58206
(701) 775-9556
SCULPTURES
DAKOTALAND MARKETING
TEAPOTS
L & J ENTERPRISE
(Native American Centennial Logo)
PERMANENT MEMORIES
(Theodore Roosevelt Bronze Sculpture)
David Garner
(Porcelain)
Lynn & Jeff Meiers
3535 East Divide
Ed Westfall
P.O. Box 955
Bismarck, ND 58501
P.O. Box 646
New Town, ND 58763
(701) 223-1937
Cooperstown, ND 58425
(701) 755-3489
RAINBOW FUND RAISERS
(701) 797-2545
JAMES McCULLOCH
(4 Silver Collectors; Nickel Plated Cloisonne;
(8 Bronze Sculptures)
Sterling Silver-Set of 4)
TELLER HELPERS
James McCulloch
Cheryl Gjevre
MAIL-WELL ENVELOPE COMPANY
Star Rt. 7A
P.O. Box 159
Bill Noble
Almont, ND 58520
Drayton, ND 58225
3500 Rockmont Drive
(701) 843-8004
(701) 454-3891
Denver, CO 80202
WESTERN IMPRESSIONS
TOY FARMER LTD.
(303) 455-3505
(Personalized Metal Sculptures with Centen-
(Pewter)
nial Coin)
Claire D. Scheibe
THIMBLES
Tom Neary
R.R. 2, Box 5
AUDREY CHINA
P.O. Box 325
LaMoure, ND 58458
(701) 883-5206
Audrey Savelkoul
Washburn, ND 58577
R.R. 1, Box 85
(701) 462-3306
Lansford, ND 58750
SPOON RACKS
(701) 784-5495
SHIRTS
RAINBOW FUND RAISERS
PERMANENT MEMORIES
CAPSCO PRODUCTS INC.
Cheryl Gjevre
(Porcelain)
(Golf; Old Timers)
P.O. Box 159
Ed Westfall
P.O. Box 30
Drayton, ND 58225
P.O. Box 646
Bismarck, ND 58502
(701) 454-3891
Cooperstown, ND 58425
(701) 222-4484
(701) 797-2545
STICKERS
DAKOTA COLLECTIBLES
(Golf; Embroidered)
FRS INDUSTRIES
TIE TACKS
604 Kirkwood Plaza
(Lapel Stickers)
BRICKMAN BUSINESS FORMS
Bismarck, ND 58501
Dennis Gabriel
& SPECIALTY'S
(701) 224-9061
64 North Fourth Street
Fargo, ND 58102
Larry Duhamel
DAKOTA DENIM COLLECTION
P.O. Box 2107
(701) 235-5347
(Denim Pullover, Various Styles)
Minot, ND 58702
Jan Dralle
SURPLUS TRACTOR PARTS CORP.
(701) 839-8916
3255 Montreal Street
(I Love My Toy Tractors Stickers)
Bismarck, ND 58501
Stanley Goodman
TIES
(701) 222-8202
3215 West Main Avenue
ALLARD TROPHY COMPANY
Fargo, ND 58103
(701) 235-7503
(Centennial Bola String)
DAKOTALAND MARKETING
Roger Bischoff
(Native American Centennial Logo; 4 Styles)
P.O. Box 412
David Garner
SUNCATCHERS
Valley City, ND 58072
3535 East Divide
GENI SUE'S SUNCATCHERS
(701) 845-3303
Bismarck, ND 58501
(701) 223-1937
Geneva Umpleby & Sue Brady
DAKOTALAND MARKETING
1725 Kennedy Avenue
(Native American Centennial Logo; Bola Tie)
SHOT GLASSES
Bismarck, ND 58501
David Garner
(701) 222-2807
3535 East Divide
BLAKETCH
Bismarck, ND 58501
Blake Running
SWEATS
(701) 223-1937
315 Ninth Avenue
Helena, MT 59601
* CAPSCO PRODUCTS, INC.
TINS
(406) 443-6468
(Official Centennial Sweatshirts/Sweatsuits;
BRICKMAN BUSINESS FORMS &
ND Great Seal, Native American Centennial
THE JUDGES CHAMBERS
Logo)
(Tin of Cookies, Tin of Almond Roca Candy)
SPECIALTIES
P.O. Box 30
Bon Schumacher
Larry Duhamel
Bismarck, ND 58502
P.O. Box 409
P.O. Box 2107
(701) 222-4484
Napoleon, ND 58561
Minot, ND 58702
(701) 754-2797
(701) 839-8916
DAKOTA COLLECTIBLES
(Hooded Sweatshirts-Embroidered; ND
TOOTHPICK HOLDERS
SHOTGUNS
Great Seal)
Gerald Westphal
DART, INC.
S & S SPECIALTY'S, INC.
604 Kirkwood Plaza
(Glass)
(Hand-Engraved Nickel; 24K Gold Plated)
Bismarck, ND 58501
R. Charles Adams
Brad Ness & Ken Toszek
(701) 224-9061
P.O. Box 220
P.O. Box 2923
Henderson, ND 68371
Fargo, ND 58108
DAKOTALAND MARKETING
1-800-228-0086
(701) 280-1916
(Native American Centennial Logo; Ex Long
(402) 723-5395
(Fanny Warmer Sweats), Bat Wing Sweat-
shirt, Crew Neck Sweatshirt, Hooded
SPOONS
TOWELS
Sweatshirt, Sweatpants, Muscle Sweatshirt)
AUDREY CHINA
David Garner
DAKOTALAND MARKETING
(Gold Metal)
3535 East Divide
(Native American Centennial Logo; Sport
Audrey Savelkoul
Bismarck, ND 58501
Towels)
R.R. 1, Box 85
(701) 223-1937
David Garner
Lansford, ND 58750
3535 East Divide
ROSS SPORTSWEAR, INC.
(701) 784-5495
Bismarck, ND 58501
(ND Great Seal)
(701) 223-1937
BRICKMAN BUSINESS FORMS
Michael Ross
& SPECIALTY'S
8379 Tenth Avenue North
TOYS
(Centennial; Gold & Silver Plated)
Golden Valley, MN 55427
Larry Duhamel
(612) 545-9544
DRIFT PRAIRIE WAGONS
P.O. Box 2107
(Covered Wagon)
Minot, ND 58702
Scott Beirerie
TANK T'S
(701) 839-8916
809 West Sweet Avenue
DAKOTALAND MARKETING
Bismarck, ND 58504
DAKOTA COLLECTIBLES
(Native American Centennial Logo)
(701) 223-3968
(Pewter)
David Garner
Gerald Westphal
SURPLUS TRACTOR PARTS CORP.
3535 East Divide
604 Kirkwood Plaza
Bismarck, ND 58501
(Minneapolis Moline UTS Wide Front
Bismarck, ND 58504
Tractor)
(701) 223-1937
(701) 224-9061
Stanley Goodman
3215 West Main Avenue
Fargo, ND 58103
(701) 235-7503
TNT TOYS
DAKOTALAND MARKETING
WATER PITCHERS
(Semi Trailer Truck - 1/64 scale)
(Native American Centennial Logo)
Steven Flanderka
David Garner
RAINBOW FUND RAISERS
R.R. 1, P.O. Box 80A
3535 East Divide
Cheryle Gjevre
Chamberlain, SD 57325
Bismarck, ND 58501
P.O. Box 159
(605) 734-6783
(701) 223-1937
Drayton, ND 58225
(701) 454-3891
GALT SAND COMPANY
TRIVETS
(ND Great Seal, Native American Centennial
AUDREY CHINA
WINDBREAKERS
Logo)
Audrey Savelkoul
Pete Mathison
DAKOTA COLLECTIBLES
R.R. 1, Box 85
2525 18th Street SW
(Embroidered-Back Logo; Silkscreened-Left
Lansford, ND 58750
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
Chest Logo)
(701) 784-5495
(319) 365-0389
Gerald Westphal
OPEN DOOR CENTER
604 Kirkwood Plaza
ROSS SPORTSWEAR, INC.
Mary Simonson
Bismarck, ND 58504
(ND Great Seal)
209 Second Street SE
(701) 224-9061
Michael Ross
Valley City, ND 58072
8379 Tenth Avenue North
(701) 845-1124
Golden Valley, MN 55427
WINDSOCKS
(612) 545-9544
TRUNKS
PRAIRIE WINDS
(Large, Small)
COUNTRY MEMORIES, INC.
VASES
Raenay A. Smith
(Northern Birch)
2702 North Elm Street
G. A. Lappin
KEN'S FLOWER SHOP
Fargo, ND 58102
P.O. Box 368
Bruce Rittel
(701) 293-1125
Onalaska, WI 54650
214 East Main
(608) 783-7433
Bismarck, ND 58505
(701) 255-1130
WINE GLASSES
T-SHIRTS
BLAKETCH
* CAPSCO PRODUCTS INC.
VISORS
(Crystal Stemware)
(Official Centennial T-Shirt; ND Great Seal,
ALLARD TROPHY COMPANY
Blake Running
Native American Centennial Logo)
315 Ninth Avenue
Roger Bischoff
P.O. Box 30
P.O. Box 412
Helena, MT 59601
Bismarck, ND 58502
(406) 443-6468
Valley City, ND 58072
(701) 222-4484
(701) 845-3303
DAKOTA COLLECTIBLES
(ND Great Seal)
Gerald Westphal
604 Kirkwood Plaza
Bismarck, ND 58504
(701) 224-9061
100th
ANNIVERSARY
NORTH
1889-1989
DAKOTA
CENT
ENNIAL
©1985 North Dakota Centennial Commission
1989 North Dakota
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JANUARY
1
Embossed Bottles from ND Drug Stores Display (to 12/31)
Beulah
19
Hazen Concert Series Performance, The Tom Prin Trio
Hazen
1
Grain Elevator Display, PSC, State Capitol (to 3/31)
Bismarck
20
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?"-A Play
Fargo
1
ND Centennial Photography Show (to 6/6)
Washburn
20
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, UND
Grand Forks
2
Centennial High School Band
Pasadena, CA
21
ND Paleontological Society (to 12/16)
Bismarck
2
Rose Bowl Parade Equestrian Unit
Pasadena, CA
21
Wingra Woodwind Quintet
Bismarck
2-28
ND Centennial Juried Art Exhibition, Museum of Art
Grand Forks
23-29
Wahpeton Winter Wonderland
Wahpeton
1-31
March of Civilization Exhibit, Heritage Center (to 5/31)
Bismarck
26
Governor's Awards for the Arts
Bismarck
5
Amateur Radio Clinic (to 4/20)
Bismarck
26
Agriculture Show/Farmer Appreciation
Garrison
6-8
Heritage Centennial Arts Festival, Kirkwood Motor Inn
Bismarck
26-28
KMOT-TV/ND Ag Expo '89
Minot
6-8
8-Ball Pool State Singles Tournament
Grand Forks
27-29
Centennial Winterfest
Casselton
8-31
Minot Daily News Photo Exhibit, MSU
Minot
27
20th Annual Winterfest, (to 2/5)
Minot
9-27
Bela Petheo:A Retrospective
Valley City
29
Ethnic Food Fair
Langdon
9-29
DSU Art Faculty/Biennial Exhibit, DSU
Dickinson
30
Barnett Quintet in Concert
Lidgerwood
13
84th Annual Chamber of Commerce Meeting
Grand Forks
30
St. Alphonsus School Heritage Celebration (to 2/3)
Langdon
14-16
ND Grocers Association Annual Convention
Bismarck
Equally
free&
independent."
Taken from the Declaration of Rights
of the North Dakota Constitution
1889-1989
FEBRUARY
1-14
Harvey Winter Carnival
Harvey
17
1-24
Annual Fireman's Dinner Dance, City Hall
Hazen
Emerging Artists II/DSU National Art Invitational, DSU
Dickinson
17
1-24
Dickinson
Drama & Supper, City Hall
Rutland
Metalworking
18
1-28
Winterfest
Minot Symphony Concert, MSU
Minot
Garrison
21
1-28
ND Centennial Juried Art Show, NDSCS
Centennial Stamp-First Day of Issue, State Capitol
Bismarck
Wahpeton
21-25
3-5
Government Week, State Agencies
Bismarck
International Silver Cup Down Hill Ski Race
Walhalla
3-12
Fargo Winter Festival
22
Fargo
GOVERNMENT DAY, State Capitol
Bismarck
5
Hazen Concert Series Performance, Larry Logan
Hazen
OFFICIAL CENTENNIAL EVENT
7-9
36th Annual Hard Red Spring Wheat Show
Williston
23
Governor's Centennial Chorus, Heritage Center
Bismarck
8-11
ND Elementary School Principals, Ramada Inn
Grand Forks
23-24
Ag Expo, KFYR-Radio
Bismarck
10-19
Winter Daze
Mandan
23-25
ND High School Hockey Tournament, Winter Sports Center
Grand Forks
11
Dinner Theatre
Hettinger
24-25
Symposium on the Future of ND, Heritage Center
Bismarck
11-12
Winter Festival. Brown Memorial
New Rockford
MARCH
1
Women's History Month, Kirkwood Motor Inn
Bismarck
11
1989 Mexican Blast
Hebron
1-17
Badlands Art Association Group Exhibit, DSU
Dickinson
11
Pysanky (Ukrainian), DSU (to 4/1)
Dickinson
2-12
Annual ND Winter Show
Valley City
17
St. Patrick's Day Celebration
Wishek
2-12
A Century of Quilts
Valley City
17-19
Garrison Boat Show
Garrison
3-11
The Red Shoes-A Play
Fargo
17-19
Gun & Reel, Boat & Recreation Show
Jamestown
3-31
ND Centennial Juried Art Exhibition, NDSU
Fargo
17-19
Williston Hospitality Bureau Sports & Rec Show
Williston
4
Women's Network Meeting
Bismarck
18
ND Centennial Arm Wrestling Tournament
Bismarck
5-18
Landscape Photography Exhibit
Cando
19
Devils Lake Community Orchestra Concert
Devils Lake
5-24
12th ND National Juried Exhibition
Minot
19
Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Concert
Moorhead, MN
6-8
Upper Midwest Aviation Symposium
Bismarck
25
Easter Egg Hunt/Photos with Easter Bunny
Garrison
6-23
Two Perspectives in Clay
Valley City
28
Handmade Paper Images (to 4/21)
Dickinson
7
1989 State Mathcounts
Bismarck
30
ND Chapter Grand Royal Arch Masons (to 4/1)
Bismarck
7
West Point Glee Club Symphony
Bismarck
30
New Works (to 4/3)
Fargo
10-12
KXMC Sport Show
Minot
31
ND Square/Round Dance Clubs Convention (to 4/1)
West Fargo
11
Daughters of Revolution Genealogy Lineage Research
Bismarck
31
ArtFest (to 4/2)
Minot
APRIL
1
ND Optometric Association
Grand Forks
13-15
Southern ND Women's Aglow Retreat
Jamestown
1
Minot Symphony Pops Concert, City Auditorium
Minot
14
Golf Club Annual Tee-off Banquet
Hazen
1
"Evolution of Mining in ND", PSC, State Capitol (to 6/31)
Bismarck
15
Press Mans Day
Garrison
1
Round Barns, Heritage Center (to 12/31)
Bismarck
15-16
Mandan Art Show, Community Center
Mandan
1-22
Stutsman County Student Art Show
Jamestown
15-16
Annual Arts/Photo/Poetry Show
Rugby
1-30
Tree Planting & City Cleanup
Casselton
19
Flasher Old & New Quilt Club Pioneer Days, School
Flasher
2
Hazen Concert Series Performance The Shanghai Quartet
Hazen
19
Flasher Public School Open House, School
Flasher
2-9
Centennial Lewis & Clark Trail Run
Olympia, WA
21-23
Old Armory Anniversary, Old Armory
Williston
2-15
2nd Annual Student Art Show
Cando
21
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (to 5/6)
Fargo
2-30
Contest Drawing/Acrylics/Needlework
Minot
22-23
Rutland State Centennial Style Show, City Hall
Rutland
2-30
ND Centennial Juried Art Exhibition
Oakes
23-24
Annual Fine Arts, Photography, Poetry Show
Rugby
3-4
ND State VICA Conference
Wahpeton
23
Student Exhibitions, DSU (to 5/11)
Dickinson
3-7
UND Writer's Conference
Grand Forks
24
Taste of the Century
Fargo
3-9
Native American Time Out Week
Grand Forks
26
All-Star Salute to Secretaries
Grand Forks
3-21
16th Biennial National Juried Art Exhibit
Valley City
26
A Century of Quilts (to 5/3)
Williston
5
NATIVE AMERICAN DAY, UND
Grand Forks
27
All-Star Salute to Secretaries
Bismarck
OFFICIAL CENTENNIAL EVENT
27-29
ND Academy of Science Annual Meeting
Grand Forks
27
LCT Productions: Homesteaders (to 5/6)
Fargo
5-7
ND Nurses Association
Grand Forks
28
All-Star Salute to Secretaries
Fargo
6
1989 State Spelling Bee
Bismarck
29
April Half-Day Bird Count
Bismarck
6
ND Young Citizen's League Convention
Bismarck
29
Frontier Army Ball
Bismarck
7
West Point Glee Club
Bismarck
29
Southeast Region Callers Square Dance
Edgeley
7-8
20th Annual Country Western Jamboree, DSU
Dickinson
29
Parent/Youth Retreat
Jamestown
7-16
Charley's Aunt-A Play
Williston
30
Miss Indian America Honor Pow Wow (to 5/1)
Bismarck
10
25th Anniversary Dance
Guelph
30
Symphony String Spectacular
Bismarck
North
Dakota
CENTENNIAL
MAY
1
ND Centennial Run, Bismarck to Elgin
Bismarck
15
ND Centennial Run, 10 mi. S of Devils Lake to 5 mi. E
1
Saving the Diabetic Eye
Fargo
of Langdon
Devils Lake
1-26
ND Centennial Juried Art Exhibition, Art Center
Jamestown
15-16
Bismarck-Mandan Centennial Concert
Bismarck
1-30
Centennial Display
Hettinger
15-21
Centennial Conference Senior Services
Fargo
1
Horton Asso. Architectural Exhibit, Art Center (to 6/30)
Jamestown
16
ND Centennial Run, 5 mi. E of Langdon to Bowesmont
Langdon
2
ND Centennial Run, Elgin to 9 mi. W of Hettinger
Elgin
17
ND Centennial Run, Bowesmont to Thompson
Bowesmont
3
ND Centennial Run, 9 mi. W of Hettinger to New England
Hettinger
17
Centennial Park Dedication
Casselton
4
ND Centennial Run, Junction of Hwys 85 & 21 to Dickinson
Junction
17
Dedication of the Custer Home, Ft. Abraham Lincoln Park
Mandan
4-5
North Dakota Music Program, High School Gym
Tioga
17
Ethnic Festivals
Rutland
5
Arbor Day Centennial Tree Planting
Bismarck
18
ND Centennial Run, Thompson to Gardner
Thompson
5
ND Centennial Run, Killdeer to 10 mi. W of Watford City
Killdeer
19
ND Centennial Run, Gardner to 10 mi. S of Jct. I-29 & Hwy 13
Gardner
6
ND China Painters Guild Show
Bismarck
20
National Band Festival
Fargo
6
Minot Symphony, "Centennial Kickoff Concert", MSU
Minot
20
Birding Long Lake
Moffit
6
ND Centennial Run, 10 mi. W of Watford City to Ray
Watford City
20
Williston Band Day
Williston
6-20
VCSU Senior/Student Art Exhibit
Valley City
20-21
Spring Planting with Horses, Ft. Ransom State Park
Fort Ransom
7-28
Tapestries/Watercolors
Minot
20-21
Williston Air Show, Sloulin International Field
Williston
8
Minot RR Museum Cent. Train & Driving of the Golden Spike
Minot
21
Bismarck-Mandan Bird Clubs Spring Count
Bismarck
9
ND Centennial Run, Ray to Burlington
Ray
22
ND Centennial Run, 10 mi. S of Jct. I-29 & Hwy 13 to 8 mi. N
10
ND Centennial Run, Burlington to Rugby
Burlington
of Lisbon
Jct. I-29
10
Dedication of Crystal Springs
Crystal Springs
23
ND Centennial Run, 8 mi. N of Lisbon to Jamestown
Lisbon
10-20
A Century of Quilts
New Rockford
24
ND Centennial Run, Jamestown to Napoleon
Jamestown
11
ND Centennial Run, Rugby to Mylo
Rugby
24-26
UND Alumni Days
Grand Forks
12
Nursing Heritage: NW North Dakota, MSU
Minot
25
ND Centennial Run, Napoleon to 10 mi. N of Hazelton
Napoleon
12
ND Centennial Run, Mylo to 10 mi. S of Devils Lake
Mylo
26
ND Centennial Run, 10 mi. N of Hazeiton to Bismarck
Hazelton
13
A. W. Doc Hill Band Day Parade
Bismarck
26-27
ND HS Track & Field Championships, UND
Grand Forks
13
Plymouth/AAA Trouble Shooting
Bismarck
26-29
4th Annual Charlie May Benefit Poker Run, 4 mi. Creek
Ft. Yates
13
Youth Day
Bismarck
26
A Century of Quilts (to 6/4)
Dickinson
13
GFWC-ND Youth Centennial Statue Dedic., Capitol Grounds
Bismarck
27
Voyage of Centennial Messenger
Riverton, WY
13-14
Pioneer Days
New Rockford
27-28
Cannon Ball Rodeo
Cannon Ball
13-14
Rough Rider International Art Show
Williston
27-28
Dakota Cowboy Poets Reunion
Medora
13
Early Dakota Quilting, DSU (to 6/23)
Dickinson
27-29
Mercer Centennial Celebration
Mercer
14
May "Big Day Bird Count"
Bismarck
27
Lewis & Clark Trail Museum Displays (to 9/4)
Alexander
14
FOUNDER'S DAY
Dickinson
27
Goose River Heritage Center Museum Displays (to 9/4)
Mayville
OFFICIAL CENTENNIAL EVENT
28
Icelandic State Park Kite Festival
Cavalier
29
14
75th Anniversary/1st Lutheran Church
Memorial Day Program
Bismarck
Hoople
29
Lansford Centennial Celebration:Charles Connis, School
Lansford
14-16 FOUNDER'S DAY
New Rockford
29
Memorial Day Celebration
Sherwood
OFFICIAL CENTENNIAL EVENT
31
Salute ND Fire Fighters Convention
Fargo
14-27
Water Color Exhibit
Cando
31
International Trade Show (to 6/4)
Fargo
17
Centennial Bird Field Trip
Medina
17
Summer Arts & Crafts Festival
Valley City
17
ND State Horse Pull
Tower City
17
Air Show
Walhalla
17-18
Pioneer Heritage Days, Gundlogson Homesite
Cavalier
17-18
Summerthing-Music in the Park, Riverside Park
Grand Forks
17-18
ND State Centennial Celebration
Hunter
17-18
Military Weekend, Ft. Abraham Lincoln State Park
Mandan
JUNE
17-18
Manvel Pioneer Days, Park & Museum
Manvel
17-18
Page Community Days & Parade, Main Street
Page
17-18
Sheldon Centennial Hometown Reunion
Sheldon
1
Brown Bag Lunch & Commission Historical Lecture
Bismarck
17-18
White Earth Valley Rodeo
White Earth
1
Country Fair & Quilt Auction, Ft. Abraham Lincoln State Park
Mandan
17-19
Father's Day Weekend
Enderlin
1
Custer Run/Walk, Ft. Abraham Lincoln State Park
Mandan
17-19
Wagon Train Days
Grand Forks
1
Railroad Museum Ground Breaking, Roosevelt Park
Minot
17-24
Centennial Men's & Women's Golf Tournament
Hettinger
1-3
ND State P.E.O., Kirkwood Motor Inn
Bismarck
17-25
Pari-Mutuel Horse Races
Fessenden
1
Pioneer Days (to 7/9)
Hettinger
18
Old-Time Centennial Co. Fair Festival, Fair Grounds
Bottineau
1
Christian Dinner Theatre (to 8/31)
Grand Forks
18
Father's Day Open, Golf Curse
Bowman
1
An Evening in the Park (to 8/31)
Turtle Lake
18
Softball Tournament
Manvel
2
Lewis & Clark Adventures with Marionettes
Elgin
18
All Faith Church Services
Tower City
2-4
ND Trapshooting Asso. Centennial Trapshoot
Bismarck
18
International Marathon Run
Walhalla
2-4
Centennial Museum & Library Grand Opening
Bowdon
18-23
National Grasslands Symposium
Bismarck
2-4
Art Exhibit
Elgin
18-24
ND Centennial Celebration
Lakota
2-4
Elgin Days
Elgin
18-24
Watford City's Diamond Jubilee
Watford City
2-4
ND VFW
Grand Forks
18-25
Annual Ft. Seward Wagon Train
Jamestown
2-4
22nd Annual Art Show
Hazen
18-25
Wagon Train Days
Jamestown
2-4
Centennial Irrigation Days
Oakes
20
Red River Wagon Train (to 7/4)
Fort Abercrombie
2-17
True West
Fargo
21-25
Heritage Hjemkomst Festival
Fargo
2
Prairie Patterns: ND Traditional Craftsmanship (to 11/2)
Bismarck
21-25
Fessenden High School Reunion
Fessenden
3
Celebration of Fargo Diocese, St. James Church
Fargo
22-25
Wells County Fair, Fair Grounds
Fessenden
3
Birding at Salyer Refuge
Upham
22-25
Centennial Musical Pageant, LaMoure Co. Memorial Park
Grand Rapids
3-4
Elgin Rodeo
Elgin
22-25
Parshall Diamond Jubilee
Parshall
3-4
ND Special Olympics, UND
Grand Forks
23
Lansford Centennial Pioneer Days Musical, School Gym
Lansford
3-4
Bad Lands Film Festival
Medora
23
Fireworks Display, Ball Park
Litchville
3-28
ND Centennial Juried Art Exhibition, Medora Community Center
Medora
23-24
Grafton Heritage Festival & Pageant
Grafton
4
Bowman Lioness Tournament, Golf Course
Bowman
23-24
Walsh County Heritage Village
Grafton
4
Stone Church Services, Stone Church
Elgin
23-24
Bad Lands Antique Auto Show
Medora
4
Wagon Train
Elgin
23-24
Watford City Rodeo
Watford City
4
Bicycle Race, Lake Metigoshe
Bottineau
23-25
Come Home Days
Bowbells
4
Dunn County Centennial Picnic, Scott's Grove
Manning
23-25
Ellendale Centennial Celebration
Ellendale
4-25
Beverly Sacoman/Serigraphs
Minot
23-25
Prairie Arts Festival, Recreation Park
Williston
5-9
ND State FFA Convention, NDSU
Fargo
23-25
Williston Centennial Celebration
Williston
5-10
Elderhostel
Dickinson
23
Saga of "Doc" Zahl Musical (to 7/2)
Zahl
5
Summer Reading Program, West Fargo Public Lib. (to 8/7)
West Fargo
24
ND Centennial Concert Band
Bottineau
6-11
Fargo Fire Festival
Fargo
24
Centennial Parade, Main Street
Fessenden
7
Golden Rule Day
Lisbon
24
Forman's ND Centennial Celebration
Forman
8-10
Lions International Multi-District Convention
Grand Forks
24
Hensler Centennial Celebration
Hensler
8-11
Missouri River Expo
Bismarck
24
Old Fashion Centennial Games, Main Street
Lansford
8-11
Annual Riverboat Days
Washburn
24
Milton's ND Centennial Celebration
Milton
9
Centennial Ball, Park & School
Montpelier
24
Gandy Dancers Ball, Uptown Minot
Minot
9-10
Square Dancing
Abercrombie
24
Celebration, Parade
Nome
9-10
Annual Intern'l Old Time Fiddlers Contest, Peace Garden
Dunseith
24
Noonan Centennial
Noonan
9-11
Cannon Ball Celebration
Cannon Ball
24
Full Day Celebration
Streeter
9-11
Dodge Jubilee
Dodge
24
All School Reunion
Valley City
9-11
Mott Centennial Celebration
Mott
24
Watford City Diamond Jubilee
Watford City
9-11
ND Centennial Photography Show
Washburn
24-25
McQuade Budweiser Slowpitch Softball Tournament
Bismarck
9-16
Centennial Touring Musical Group
Bismarck
24-25
Blaisdell Rodeo
Blaisdell
9-28
Intern'l Festival of the Arts Series
Dunseith
24-25
State 100th, Town 109th, Buffalo Village
Buffalo
10
Block Long Hot Dog
Garrison
24-25
Conway Reunion & Centennial Celebration
Conway
10
Tractor Pull, Park & School
Montpelier
24-25
Scandinavian Festival, Trollwood Park
Fargo
10-11
XL Stampede
Bismarck
24-25
Medina All School Reunion, School
Medina
10-11
Haying with Horses, Ft. Ransom State Park
Fort Ransom
24-25
Early Bird Walleye Derby
New Town
10-11
Bad Lands Music Festival
Medora
24-25
Shields Celebration & Porcupine Pow Wow
Shields
10-12
Casselton Community Days
Casselton
25
ND Centennial Concert Band
Cando
10-12
ND Elks Annual Convention
Bismarck
25
Christine Lutheran Church-100th Anniversary
Christine
10-17
Red River Canoe Marathon
Fargo
25
ND Centennial Concert Band
Devils Lake
10-18
Medora Heritage & Cultural Affairs Week
Medora
25
Centennial Celebration, Wells Co. Fair Grounds
Fessenden
10-18
Ft. Union Trading Post Centennial Rendezvous
Williston
25
ND Nature Conservancy Annual Mtg., Cross Ranch State Park
Hensler
10
Centennial Medora Musical (Labor Day)
Medora
25
Community Picnic, City Park
Maxbass
11
Kids Day
Arvilla
25
Centennial Celebration for Church
Milton
11
Parade, Church Services, Park & School
Montpelier
25
Community Church Service, Pot Luck Picnic
Noonan
11
Pembina Centennial Celebration Aviation Day
Pembina
25
Bismarck Diocese Town & Country Centennial Celebration
Strasburg
11-30
Gallery Exhibits Members Art, VCSU
Valley City
26
ND Centennial Concert Band
Aneta
11
Intern'l Music Camp Summer School Fine Arts, (to 8/1)
Dunseith
26
ND Centennial Concert Band
Langdon
12
Niagara Centennial Celebration
Niagara
27
ND Centennial Concert Band
Carrington
13-15
Steele Centennial Rodeo, Rodeo Grounds
Steele
27
ND Centennial Concert Band
Fargo
14
Dedication of Lawton School Bell
Lawton
27
ND Centennial Bicycle Tour (to 7/1)
Dickinson
14-16
ND State Bar Association
Grand Forks
28
Grand Forks Fair & Exhibition, Fair Grounds
Grand Forks
15-17
Grand Lodge A.F. & A.M. of ND
Bismarck
28
ND Centennial Concert Band
Jamestown
15-18
A Century of Quilts
Mayville
28
Kulm Centennial Celebration
Kulm
15-18
Valley City Community Days
Valley City
28
ND Centennial Concert Band
Wahpeton
16
State High School Rodeo Finals, Fair Grounds
Bowman
28-29
Wagon Train Camp-A-Roo, Centennial Park Camp Ground
Flasher
16
All School Reunion, Banquet
Dazey
28
Watford City Diamond Jubilee to (7/1)
Watford City
16
McLain Family Band
Lidgerwood
29
ND Centennial Concert Band
Dazey
16
All School Reunion
Tower City
29
ND Centennial Concert Band
Hazen
16
Dairy Day
Tuttle
29
Ashley Summer Festival, ND Centennial Concert Band to (7/1)
Ashley
16-17
29th Annual Summer Festival & Turkey Bar-B-Q
Aneta
29
Carson Wagon Train (to 7/2)
Carson
16-18
ND Centennial Celebration
Dazey
29
All School Reunion (to 7/2)
Hettinger
16-18
Devils Lake Western Arts Festival
Devils Lake
29
All School Reunion, Street Dance (to 7/3)
Garrison
16-18
Centennial Celebration
Fordville
30
ND Centennial Concert Band
Bowman
16-18
Glen Ullin's Centennial Celebration
Glen Ullin
30
ND Centennial Concert Band
Dickinson
16-18
Hazelton's Centennial Celebration
Hazelton
30
Killdeer Musical, School Gym
Killdeer
16-18
Hunter's 1989 Centennial Celebration
Hunter
30
Mandan Jaycees Major Concert, Rodeo Grounds
Mandan
16-18
4th Annual ND Farm Toy Show
LaMoure
30
1938 & 1939 Class Reunion (to 7/2)
Mandan
16-18
Reunion Days at MSU
Minot
30
MSU Centennial Celebration (to 7/2)
Mayville
16-18
Annual Championship Horse Show
Rugby
30
Centennial Celebration (to 7/2)
Portal
16-18
All School Reunion
Scranton
30
Powers Lake Centennial Festival (to 7/2)
Powers Lake
16-18
Tower City Centennial Celebration
Tower City
30
All School Reunion (to 7/2)
Tioga
16-18
1940's Class Reunion
Valley City
30
All School Reunion (to 7/2)
West Fargo
16-18
Centennial Photography Show
Washburn
30
Centennial Celebration (to 7/3)
Harvey
16-18
Riverboat Days
Washburn
30
Beulah's Diamond Jubilee (to 7/4)
Beulah
16-19
Abercrombie Community Celebration, Wagon Train
Abercrombie
30
Mandan Jaycees 4th of July Rodeo, Rodeo Grounds (to 7/4)
Mandan
16-25
LaMoure Centennial Celebration
LaMoure
30
Centennial Relay Run (to 7/5)
Pembina
Party
OF
THE
©1988 ND Centennial Commission
JULY
1-4
PARTY OF THE CENTURY
Bismarck
OFFICIAL CENTENNIAL EVENT
4
Flea Market & Outdoor Barbecue
Hatton
1-4
Dakota Centennial Folklife Festival,
4
July 4th Rodeo, Rodeo Grounds
Marmarth
Capitol Grounds
Bis-Man
4
Old Fashioned County Fair
Walhalla
6-9
1
Railroad Industry Historical Display
Bismarck
Minot State Summer Theatre, MSU
Minot
7-8
Palermo's ND State Centennial Celebration
1
Brinsmade Gopher Day Centennial
Brinsmade
Palermo
7-8
1
Annual Roughrider Days
Dickinson
All School Alumni Reunion, City Hall
Rutland
7-9
ND Centennial Celebration
1
East River Wagon Train (Fargo-Minot)
Fargo
Goodrich
1
Heart River Folk Fest & Great Race 3, Ft. Abraham Lincoln
7-9
Mandan
Napoleon Centennial Celebration
Napoleon
7-9
1
Governor's Cup Walleye Fishing Tourney
Lake Sakakawea
Turtle Days & School Reunion
Turtle Lake
1
ND Centennial Concert Band
7-9
Medora
White Shield Pow Wow
White Shield
8
1
17th Annual Festival in the Park
Minot
July 4th Centennial Parade & Picnic, Main Street
Golva
PSC Joint Commission Meeting with State of Montana
8-9
1
Williston
Alice Centennial Celebration, Park & Alice Hall
Alice
1
ND Centennial Concert Band
8-9
Williston
Columbus Centennial Celebration
Columbus
1-2
8-9
Medora Ukrainian Festival 1989, Community Center
Medora
Drayton Centennial Celebration, Drayton Heritage
Drayton
All Sanish Reunion
8-9
1-2
New Town
Cutting & Shocking Grain, Fort Ransom State Park
Fort Ransom
8-9
1-2
Our Savior's Lutheran Church's 100th Anniversary
Park River
Annual Walleye Derby
Lake Sakakawea
8-9
Alumni Reunion
1-2
Sentinel Butte Centennial Celebration
Sentinel Butte
Turtle Lake
1-3
All School Reunion
8-9
Marmarth
Wing NDRA Rodeo, Rodeo Grounds
Wing
8-9
1-4
All Class Reunion
Old Timer's Baseball Game
Bowman
Wishek
8-10
1-4
Stutsman County Fair
Jamestown
City Centennial
Bisbee
8-10
1-4
Kenmare Centennial Celebration
Burke County Fair
Flaxton
Kenmare
9
1-4
Killdeer Centennial Celebration
Killdeer
Friends & Neighbors Day, Grand Forks AFB
Grand Forks
9
1-4
Linton Centennial Celebration
Linton
G. Forks Co. Hist. Soc. Ice Cream Social, Myra Museum
Grand Forks
9
1-4
Centennial Wagon Train
Mandan
Renville County Centennial Pageant, City Park
Sherwood
12-17
Red River Valley Fair
West Fargo
1-4
Mandan Jaycees July 4th Dance
13-16
Germans from Russia Intern'l Conven., Kirkwood Motor Inn
Bismarck
Rodeo Grounds
Mandan
13-16
Minot State Summer Theatre, MSU
Minot
1-4
14-15
July 4th Celebration
New Rockford
Golden Valley's Diamond Jubilee
Golden Valley
1-4
School Reunion
14-16
Pembina
St. Ann's & Turtle Mountain Days
Belcourt
1-4
Wahpeton Centennial Celebration
14-16
Wahpeton
Threshing & Antique Shows, W of Crosby
Crosby
1-7
Bowman Blue Sox Reunion, James Athletic Field
14-16
Bowman
Dunseith Days
Dunseith
1-28
ND Centennial Juried Art Show, Minot Art Gallery
Minot
14-16
Military Encampment, Ft. Buford
Williston
2
Bowman Community Band Concert, Main Street
Bowman
14-16
Larimore Days
Larimore
2
ND Centennial Concert Band
Crosby
14-16
Mandaree Pow Wow
Mandaree
2
Ice Cream Social with Old Time Music, Eielson Museum
15
Hatton
ND Centennial Car Show, Capitol Grounds
Bismarck
15
2
Art in the Park
Mandan
1989 Intern'l Good Neighbor Day, Intern'l Peace Garden
Dunseith
15
All School Reunion & ND Centennial Celebration
Dunseith
2
Mandan Jaycees July 4th Parade, Main Street
Mandan
15
65th Anniversary of Flasher Homemakers Club
Flasher
2
Centennial Celebration
Minto
15
Art in the Park, Park
Flasher
2
Diocesan Centennial Mass, Assumption Church
Pembina
15
Dedication of Russell-Rhone Centennial RR Park, Park
Flasher
2
ND Centennial Concert Band
Stanley
15
Valley City Centennial Celebration
Valley City
2
All School Reunion
Sykeston
15-16
Brocket Centennial Celebration
Brocket
2-3
Centennial Concerts in the Park, Turtle River
Grand Forks
15-16
All Towner County Tour
Egeland
2-4
Fort Ransom Living History Farm
Fort Ransom
15-16
Buffalo Trails Day
Epping
2-4
Sherwood's ND Centennial Celebration
Sherwood
15-16
Celebration of ND, Trollwood Park
Fargo
2-4
Velva Centennial Celebration
Velva
15-16
Annual Riverboat Days
Grand Forks
2-20
Centennial Show-ND Art Gallery Asso.
Minot
15-16
Summerthing-Kyds Daze
Grand Forks
3
Wagon Train Parade
Mandan
15-16
"Country Fair"
Rugby
3
Community Chorus & High School Concert, Main Street
Bowman
16
Pete Woll Open, Golf Course
Bowman
3
Garrison Celebration & ND Centennial Concert Band
Garrison
16
Marking Sites: Schools, Churches, & Courthouses, Hall
Fingal
3
Centennial Celebration
Minto
16
Annual Roast Beef Feed
McVille
3
ND Centennial Concert Band
Mohall
17
Ft. Abercrombie State Centennial Celebration
Ft. Abercrombie
3
Aggie Alumni: All Class Reunion
Park River
20-23
Minot State Summer Theatre, MSU
Minot
3-4
Mandan Jaycees Fireworks Display
21-23
Hoople Centennial Celebration
Hoople
21-23
Rodeo Ground
North American Regatta
Lake Sakakawea
Mandan
21-29
ND State Fair
Minot
3-4
SW Wagon Train (Marmarth-Mandan)
Marmarth
22
Forest River Centennial Celebration Picnic
Forest River
3-4
Raleigh Rodeo
Raleigh
22
ND State Parade
Minot
3-4
Towner Rodeo
Towner
22-23
Centennial
Cavalier
3-5
Hettinger July 4th Celebration
Hettinger
22-23
Dakota Territory Centennial Air Show
Minot
4
CONSTITUTION DAY, State Capitol
Bismarck
23
"Our Rural Heritage*-Ecumenical Church Service, State Fair
Minot
24
Crazy Days
Hillsboro
OFFICIAL CENTENNIAL EVENT
24-26
NDRA Finals Rodeo
Bismarck
4
ND OFFICIAL CENTENNIAL PARADE
Mandan
24-26
NDRA State Championship Rodeo, Minot All-Season Arena
Minot
4
KX-TV Extravaganza, Capitol Grounds
27-30
Bismarck
Hillsboro Centennial Celebration
Hillsboro
27-30
Minot State Summer Theatre, MSU
Minot
4
July 4th Celebration
Arnegard
28-30
Fort Totten Pow Wow
Fort Totten
4
ND Centennial Concert Band
Bismarck
28-30
International Golf Tournament
Walhalla
4
Identify Early Burial Grounds & Cemeteries
Bowman
28-31
Prairie Rose State Games
Bismarck-Mandan
4
Dunn Center 75th Anniversary
Dunn Center
29
Dedication-Flasher Historical Soc., Historical Soc. Bldg.
Flasher
4
Fireworks Extravaganza
Grand Forks
30
4-Eyes Photo Contest & Medora Country Western Jamboree
Medora
4
Grand Forks AFB July 4th, Riverside Park
Grand Forks
31
ND Centennial Juried Art Exhibition (to 8/25)
New Rockford
AUGUST
3-6
Centennial Air Show
Fargo
13-19
Annual Pioneer Days Review, Bonanzaville
West Fargo
4
First Union Church Centennial Informal Reception
Williston
16-18
ND Peace Officers Association, Ramada Inn
Grand Forks
4-6
Fort Yates Pow Wow & Rodeo
Ft. Yates
17-20
Grant County Fair & Rodeo
Carson
4-6
International Fireworks Competition
Walhalla
17-20
US Masters Swimming Nat'l Long Course Champ., Hyslop
Grand Forks
5-
Ethnic Days
Pembina
18
Grant County Fair-Pony Express Mail-100 mi.
Carson
5
First Union Church Centennial
Williston
18-20
Twin Butte Pow Wow
Twin Butte
5-6
Country Jamboree, Trollwood Park
Fargo
18-20
Museums Open & Historical Homes Open
Wilton
5-6
Fort Yates Rodeo
Fort Yates
19
Wagon Train from Bismarck to Wilton
Bismarck
5-6
Mandan Indian Days, Ft. Abraham Lincoln State Park
Mandan
19
Grant County Threshing Bee
Carson
5-6
Ray Rodeo
Ray
19
Wilton Centennial Celebration
Wilton
6
Schuck's Open, Golf Course
Bowman
19-20
Lewis & Clark Among the Earthlodge People, Knife River Indian
6
Lake Metigoshe Lions "Bud Light" Triathlon
Bottineau
Village
Stanton
6
Annual Rodeo
Sentinel Butte
20
Seniors Charity, Bowman Golf Course
Bowman
6
First Union Church Centennial
Williston
20
Northern Neighbor's Day, Minot AFB
Minot
6-13
Grand Forks/ND Centennial Week Celebration
Grand Forks
20
Community Worship Service
Wilton
10-12
ND Academy of Family Practitioners
Grand Forks
23
Mor-Gran-Sou Electric, Mor-Gran-Sou Electric Building
Flasher
10-13
AACA National Antique Auto Show, UND
Grand Forks
24-27
Ransom County Fair
Lisbon
11-13
Chautauqua-"Life in the Red River Valley", Univ. Park
Grand Forks
25-27
Litchville Fall Fair & Centennial Parade
Litchville
11-13
Little Shell Pow Wow
New Town
26-27
Killdeer Rodeo
Killdeer
12-13
Beulah Rodeo
Beulah
27
Belfield Centennial Park Dedication, Main Street & 4th
Belfield
12-13
Summerthing-The Final Weekend, University Park
Grand Forks
28
ND Centennial Juried Art Exhibit, Joachim Museum (to 9/22)
Dickinson
SEPTEMBER
1
Ride the River, Western ND Pro-Am Golf Tourn., Apple Creek
Bismarck
10
Gitchee Gumi Race, Missouri River
Bismarck
1
Annual Potato Bowl & ND Library Association
Grand Forks
10-11
5th Annual Pioneer Days
Dickinson
1
Traveling Exhibit-"Baggage, Peltry & Squeak" (to 11/30)
Grand Forks
10-13
ND Certified Public Accountants, Ramada Inn
Grand Forks
1-2
Labor Day Pow Wow
Belcourt
12-14
Big Iron
West Fargo
2
Old Settlers Picnic
Alexander
14
The Feast of Folkfest, Civic Center
Bismarck
2
Native American Fall Festival & Cavalry Demo.
Monango
14
NDSU Centennial Inauguration, NDSU
Fargo
2-4
Turtle Mountain Pow Wow
Dunseith
15-16
Regent Community & Area Celebration
Regent
3
County Fair: Domestic Arts, MSU (to 10/27)
Minot
15-17
Steam Threshers, Fair Grounds
New Rockford
4
Almont Labor Day Reunion
Almont
16-17
Annual Threshing Show
Fullerton
4
Rededication of Restored Barnes County Courthouse Patio
Valley City
16-17
Wheat Harvest Jamboree
New England
5-10
Miss Indian America Pageant, United Tribes
Bismarck
16
Regent's Centennial Celebration
Regent
7-9
Centennial Days
Leonard
21
Mor-Gran-Sou Elec.-Annual Meeting, School
Flasher
7-10
Tioga Farm Festival
Tioga
22-24
Dakota Centennial Arts Conference
Aberdeen, SD
8
Peace Education Day
Belcourt
22-24
Beta Sigma Phi State Convention
Bismarck
8-10
Annual United Tribes Pow Wow
Bismarck
24
Lutheran Hour Rally, Civic Center
Bismarck
8-17
Bismarck's Annual Folkfest
Bismarck
24-26
Oktoberfest
New Leipzig
9
Chili Cook Off, Kirkwood Motor Inn
Bismarck
28
1989 Student Art Show, DSU (to 10/22)
Dickinson
9-10
Threshing Demonstrations, Fort Ransom State Park
Fort Ransom
30
Annual Buffalo Days (to 10/2)
Jamestown
9-11
Bowman County Fair, Fair Grounds
Bowman
I
OCTOBER
1
CITIZENS DAY
Minot
6
164th Infantry Celebration, Old Armory
Williston
7-8
Makoti Threshing Show, Makoti Threshing Grounds
Makoti
OFFICIAL CENTENNIAL EVENT
11-14
Annual Norsk Hostfest Fall Festival, All Seasons Arena
Minot
1
Ft. Abraham Lincoln Foundation Annual Member. Mtg.
Mandan
12-14
UND Homecoming
Grand Forks
1
Polka Fest
Mandan
14-15
Uffda Days, City Hall
Rutland
1-30
ND Centennial Juried Art Exhibition
Williston
18-20
ND Education Association
Grand Forks
2-7
MSU Homecoming Week, Herb Parker Stadium
Minot
20-22
ND Quota Club, Ramada Inn
Grand Forks
5-6
YMCA Rodeo, All Seasons Arena
Minot
28
Flasher Historical Society Community Ethnic Supper
Flasher
6
1870's 20th Infantry Regimental Army Encamp., Ft. Seward
Jamestown
29-31
Haunted Forest, Ft. Abraham Lincoln State Park
Mandan
6
Log Cabin Open House & Flag Raising, Finley Courthouse
Luverne
30
Nat'l Asso. of Women Artists Traveling Painting Exhibit
6
MSU Alumni Association Gala VII, Sheraton
Minot
1988-1989 (to 11/22)
Dickinson
NOVEMBER
GREAT
1-31
ND Centennial Juried Art Exhibition, Historical Museum
Belcourt
AND
Bismarck
HON
FOREVER
SEAL
2
STATEHOOD DAY
OFFICIAL CENTENNIAL EVENT
1st
ONE
2
Grand Forks
LINION
AND
ND 100th Birthday Celebration, Civic Auditorium
2
Killdeer Interfaith Children Centennial Musical
Lansford
OCTOBER
1889
Killdeer
2
Signing of Statehood: Herbert Meschke, School Gym
AND
4
Almont Centennial Celebration
Almont
4
Torchlight Parade
Walhalla
4-30
ND Centennial Juried Art Exhibition
LIBERTY
INSEPARABLE
Belcourt
5-29
The Future of ND: Mail Art Show, MSU
Minot
6
Bowman County Homemakers Council Fling Thing Show
Bowman
10-14
American Agra-Women National Convention
Grand Forks
18
8th Annual Holiday Bazaar, City Hall
Hazen
STATE
24-25
Fun Night, VFW Club
Valley City
DISOUNT
26
Bowman Lions Club-Turkey Jamboree, Four Seasons Bldg.
Bowman
OF
27
Two Dakotas 100/Intern'l Exh. Paper Artwork, DSU (to 1-19)
Dickinson
NORTH
DECEMBER
1
Little Christmas on the Prairie, Bonanzaville, USA
West Fargo
10
Bowman Community Chorus, Lutheran Church
Bowman
17
Christmas Bird Counts, T.R. National Park-South Unit
Bismarck
17
Holiday Fantasy Concert, Gym
New Rockford
18
Christmas Bird Counts, T.R. National Park-North Unit
Bismarck
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NORTH DAKOTA CENTENNIAL COMMISSION
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
2204 EAST BROADWAY
BISMARCK, ND 58501
Published January 1989 by the N.D. Centennial
Commision, S.F. Hoffner, Executive Director
Compiled by Nancy Jo Vetter, N.D. Centennial
100th
Commission
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NORTH DAKOTA BIBLIOGRAPHY
General History:
Elwyn B. Robinson. North Dakota History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966
Robert P. Wilkins & Wynona H. Wilkins. North Dakota: A Bicentennial History. New York; W.W. Norton & CO., 1977
Bruce Nelson. Land of the Dacotahs. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1973; first pub. 1946
Exploration:
Russel Reid, ed. Lewis and Clark in North Dakota. Bismarck: State Historical Society of ND, 1947; reprint ed. 1988
G. Hubert Smith. The Journals of La Verendrye. Edited by W. Raymond Wood. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.
David Thomas & Karin Ronnefeldt, eds. People of the First Man: Life Among the Plains Indians in Their Final Days of Glory. New
York: Promontory Press, 1982.
Frontier Military:
Evan S. Connell. Son of the Morning Star. Harper & ROW, 1984.
Elizabeth Bacon Custer. Boots and Saddles.
Larry Remele. ed. Fort Buford and the Northern Plains Military Frontier, 1850-1900. Bismarck: SHSND, 1987.
Larry Remele, ed. Fort Totten: Military Post and Indian School, 1867-1959. Bismarck: SHSND, 1986.
Native Peoples:
Mary Jane Schneider. North Dakota Indians: An Introduction. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt, 1986.
Carolyn Gilman & Mary Jane Schneider. The Way to Independence: Memories of a Hidatsa Indian Family, 1840-1920. St. Paul:
Minnesota Historical Society, 1987.
C. L. Dill. Early Peoples of North Dakota (Before 1858). Bismarck: SHSND, 1983; reprint ed. 1988.
Settlement & Statehood:
William C. Sherman & P.V. Thorson, eds. Plains People: North Dakota's Ethnic Heritage. Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional
Studies, 1987.
Era Bell Thompson. American Daughter. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1986; first pub. 1947
William C. Sherman. Prairie Mosiac: An Ethnic Atlas of North Dakota. Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1983.
Post-Settlement:
Lois Phillips Hudson. The Bones of Plenty. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1985; first pub. 1963.
D. Jerome Tweton & Daniel F. Rylance. The Years of Despair: North Dakota in the Depression. Grand Forks: Oxcart Press, 1973.
Ann Marie Low. Dust BOW! Diary. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.
Politics:
Robert Loren Morlan. Political Prairie Fire: The Nonpartisan League, 1915-1922. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955,
reprint ed, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1985.
Thomas Howard, ed. The North Dakota Political Tradition. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1981.
Edward C. Blackorby. Prairie Rebel: The Public Life of William Lemke. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963.
Nature:
Robert Stewart. Breeding Birds of North Dakota.
Wilmon H. Droze. Trees, Prairie, and People: Tree Planting in the Plains States. 1977.
Contemporary Literature:
Larry Woiwode. Beyond the Bedroom Wall. 1975.
Richard Critchfield. Those Days: An American Album. 1986.
Thomas McGrath. Letter to an Imaginary Friend. (3 vols.)
Louise Erdrich. Love Medicine. Bantam Books, 1984.
Children:
Project Study. The History and Current Status of North Dakota. Harvey, ND: Harvey Public Schools, 1979. (20 booklets; 4th grade level)
Erling Nicolai Rolfsrud. Notable North Dakotans. Farwell, MN: Lantern Press, 1987.
Erling Nicolai Rolfsrud. Gopher Tails for Papa. Farwell, MN: Lantern Press, 1987; first pub. 1954.
E. Palmer Rockswold. Per, A Norwegian Immigrant. Staples, MN: Adventure Publications, 1976.
Periodicals:
North Dakota History: Journal of the Northern Plains (State Historical Society of North Dakota; quarterly)
North Dakota Horizons (Greater North Dakota Association; quarterly)
North Dakota Outdoors (North Dakota Game and Fish Dept; monthly)
North Dakota Quarterly (University of North Dakota; quarterly journal of literature and literary criticism)
Plainswoman (Plainswoman, Inc.; bi-monthly)
100lb
NORTH
1889-1989
DAKOTA
CENTENNIAL
APPROVED
NORTH DAKOTA
CENTENNIAL PROJECTS
(as of January 20, 1989)
NORTH
DAKOTA
CENTERNIAL
NORTH DAKOTA CENTENNIAL COMMISSION
S.F. "Buckshot" Hoffner, Executive Director
2204 E. Broadway
Bismarck, North Dakota 58501
Ph. (701) 224-2589
ARTS & CRAFTS
ND CENTENNIAL LOGO REPLICA
CENTENNIAL GLASS ETCHING
Project Code: 120
Project Code: 394
CENTENNIAL VISIONS ARTS SHOW
W.C. Loberg, 1224 Walnut Street, Grand Forks,
Jeffrey Pegg, Box H, Neche, ND 58265; (701)
Project Code: 0
ND 58201; (701) 772-7152
886-7604
Marilyn Shine, P.O. Box 12, Hazen, ND 58545;
Students in Industrial Arts at South Junior High,
The manufacturing class of Neche Public School
(701) 748-6878
Grand Forks, plan to construct a 6 ft. diameter
will etch a copy of the Centennial logo and frame
116 artists displays, 12 judges.
replica of the North Dakota Centennial logo to
it in North Dakota wood.
Opening February 15-28.
use as a set piece/backdrop.
BISMARCK DOWNTOWN STREET FAIR
LOGO FRAMES
DAKOTAS CENTENNIAL TRIBAL ARTS
Project Code: 403
Project Code: 30
COMPETITION
Candice Gartner, P.O. Box 521, Bismarck, ND
Walter Odegaard, SW of City, Mandan, ND
Project Code: 165
58502; (701) 223-1958
58554; (701) 667-1400
Donna Evenson, Black Building, Suite 606,
The Street Fair consists of over 120 art and craft
Provide worthwhile work for students of the State
Fargo, ND 58102; (701) 237-8962
vendors and numerous non-profit organizations
Industrial School. Oak frames in the shape of
The Dakotas Centennial Tribal Arts Competition
vending food as well as entertainment.
the state display the logo.
and Sale is a joint project of the State Arts
Councils of North Dakota and South Dakota.
IMAGINE
QUILT '89
Project will heighten an awareness of the best
Project Code: 442
Project Code: 35
Indian arts and crafts.
Lisa Bohnet Farnham, 1420 N. 8th St., Fargo,
Leona Tennyson, Box 94, Antler, ND 58711;
ND 58102; (701) 241-4799
(701) 267-3667
The Trollwood Performing Arts School will spon-
COLUMN OF THE CENTURY
To make the world's largest quilt, each North
sor a project for American-Chinese-Soviet
Project Code: 206
Dakota county will construct a section replicating
friendship.
Ida Prokop Lee, 1205 Prospect Place, Bismarck,
the county.
ND 58501; (701) 258-8190
FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
100 YEARS OF GRAFTON MURAL
A native cottonwood tree trunk will be used to
Project Code: 454
Project Code: 47
create the "Column of the Century." Life-size
Hart Edmonds, 3rd and Thayer, Bismarck, ND
Charles H. Stewart, 131 Prospect Avenue,
faces of sculptured clay will be mounted on the
58501; (701) 223-6091
Grafton, ND 58237; (701) 352-0479
column. Will honor North Dakotans.
The Festival of the Arts board will hold its 20th
Will conduct a contest to determine the design
Annual Festival of the Arts sponsored by the First
for a mural in mid-town Grafton. Painting to be
INTERNATIONAL MUSIC CAMP
Presbyterian Church of Bismarck from 11/9/88
carried out by Jaycees.
Project Code: 240
to 3/31/89.
Joseph Alme, Box 27, Bottineau, ND 58318;
ARTS & CRAFTS OF NORWAY
(701) 228-2277
ART PORTFOLIO/LEEDS GRADE SCHOOL
Project Code: 92
International Music Camp to serve as the official
Project Code: 471
Eileen Stave, R.R. 2, Box 37, Leeds, ND 58346;
Centennial Summer Arts Camp. Camp will utilize
Charles E. Schlieve, 405 E. Main St., Box 346,
(701) 466-2464
the music ambassadors from other states
Leeds, ND 58346
To acquaint North Dakota with the arts and crafts
celebrating centennials in 1989 and 1990.
The Leeds Grade School will use the logo on
of Norway. Eileen Stave describes the history
their art portfolios.
of "old arts" and displays her work.
HERITAGE CENTENNIAL ARTS FESTIVAL
QUILTING FESTIVAL
ND INDIAN ARTS ASSOCIATION
Project Code: 308
Robb Barr, Box 2567, Bismarck, ND 58502;
Project Code: 478
Project Code: 100
Tex Wounded Face, 614 West Sweet Avenue,
(701) 223-8303
Janet Kramer, 123 West Main, Sidney, MT
59270; (701) 744-3657
#19, Bismarck, ND 58504; (701) 224-2810
Heritage Arts, Inc. wishes to foster the appreci-
Will establish a non-profit mechanism for retail
tion of all forms of art, including: visual arts,
The Mon-Dak Heritage Center in Sidney, MT is
music, dance and drama. The first Heritage Arts
sponsoring a quilting festival. It will be a month-
sale and exhibition of fine quality Native
Festival will be in 1989.
long recognition of the role quilting played in
American art in and outside North Dakota to
settling the area.
generate income for artists.
A ND STORY BOOK IN PAINT
WOODBURNING OF NORTH DAKOTA
CENTENNIAL BANNER
Project Code: 383
Project Code: 489
Project Code: 117
Terrance and Donna Rockstad, 110 Weiss Ave.,
Gwyn Herman, 325 Munich Dr., Bismarck, ND
Louise M. Juliani, P.O. Box 814, Grand Forks,
Bismarck, ND 58501; (701) 258-2127
58504; (701) 221-3495
ND 58206; (701) 775-7676
Dan's Super Market, Inc. will sponsor a
The V.E. Solheim Elementary School 4th grade
Create a 39 by 54 inch applique banner
monumental display of 24 paintings giving
class will woodburn counties, county seats,
depicting a dock scene in Grand Forks 100 years
tribute to North Dakota and its people in
rivers, etc., on a 4'x8' piece of plywood cut in
ago to hang in the Myra Museum.
commemoration of its Centennial.
the shape of North Dakota.
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CONSTRUCTION &
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW LIBRARY
FOUR WINDS DANCE GROUP
RECONSTRUCTION
Project Code: 219
Project Code: 397
Warren S. Nelson, 520 Lincoln Ave., Harvey, ND
Deborah Hosie, Box 239, Fort Totten, ND 58335;
CUSTER HOUSE FLOAT
58341; (701) 324-4621
(701) 766-4282
Project Code: 65
A new public library will be constructed in
The Four Winds Dancing Group will be available
Paul E. Trauger, P.O. Box 368, Mandan, ND
Harvey. Money has been raised through dona-
for dance presentations throughout the state
58554; (701) 667-3300
tions by individuals, businesses, and associa-
upon request.
Construct a scale model reconstruction of
tions and through grants.
Custer's home at Ft. Lincoln — to be used as
a parade float.
DENHOFF COMMUNITY CENTER
DEMONSTRATIONS &
Project Code: 276
REENACTMENTS
CENTENNIAL LOG CABIN
Timothy Erdmann, Box 407, Denhoff, ND 58430;
Project Code: 89
FORT SEWARD MILITARY LIFE
(701) 884-2566
John R. Hanson, HC1, Box 27, Bowman, ND
Project Code: 5
58623; (701) 279-5501
Construction of a new building to serve as a com-
Steven Reidburn, Box 1393, Jamestown, ND
munity center. The building will be used as a
58402; (701) 252-9198
Logging camp ranch owners offer to provide
polling place and will serve many other needs
materials and to construct a log cabin made of
within the community.
Members of the regiment will wear historical
North Dakota logs on any lot chosen by the
costumes and present historical reenactments of
Centennial Commission.
the life of the soldiers, camp life, and battle
GAZEBO AND CHURCH PRESERVATION
procedures.
RECONSTRUCT CUSTER HOUSE
Project Code: 320
Project Code: 68
Arlene Hoffner, Rt. 1, Box 61, Esmond, ND
WOMEN'S DRILL TEAM ON HORSEBACK
Pat Ness, P.O. Box 836, Mandan, ND 58554;
58332
Project Code: 12
(701) 663-3013
The Evergreen City Centennial Committee plans
Jan Wiese, Rt. 3, Box 107, Eldridge, ND 58401;
Ft. Abraham Lincoln Foundation will reconstruct
to erect a gazebo and restore a church.
(701) 763-6247
the Custer house.
All women precision drill team to perform at
BLACKTAIL DAM COMFORT STATION
events - available for scheduling.
CENTENNIAL COVERED BRIDGE
Project-Code: 326
Project Code: 95
Jack K. Daniels, P.O. Box 2047, Williston, ND
TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY FASHIONS
Mark L. Beaton, P.O. Box 576, West Fargo, ND
58802-20.47; (701) 572-2062
Project Code: 17
58078; (701) 282-3232
The Williams County Park Board proposes to
Marilyn N. Niewoehner, 213 2nd Avenue SW,
A replica of a covered bridge will be erected
build a male and female bath house restroom
Rugby, ND 58368; (701) 776-2111
where 7th Avenue crosses the Sheyenne River.
facility at Blacktail Dam Park.
Historically accurate style show of women's
Funds and labor will be provided by West Fargo
garments between 1882-1907 - workshops on
citizens.
garment construction.
ENDERLIN MUNICIPAL LIBRARY
CHAHINKAPA ZOO NATURE CENTER
Project Code: 285
7TH CAVALRY HISTORY UNIT
Project Code: 156
Michael J. Martin, RR 1, Box 92, Enderlin, ND
Project Code: 87
Wayne Beyer, Parks and Rec. Dept., City Hall,
58027; (701) 437-2100
Clayton McLaen, R.R. Box 4, Rutland, ND
Wahpeton, ND 58075; (701) 642-2811
The building of a 3500 square foot one story
58076; (701) 724-3656
Nature center that enhances the educational
municipal library in Enderlin.
Promote the North Dakota Centennial through
value of the zoo at Wahpeton. Regional wildlife
"living history" activities as parades, displays,
and ecosystem displays, classroom facilities,
BURNING HILLS AMPHITHEATRE
dedications, etc. "E" Company has been in
and veterinarian center.
Project Code: 336
existence since 1967.
Harold Schafer, P.O. Box 198, Medora, ND
COMMUNITY LIBRARY
58645; (701) 623-4444
CUSTER MEMORIAL 7TH CAVALRY
Project Code: 166
Sharon Schlecht, Streeter, ND 58483; (701)
A modern, handicapped accessible 3,000-seat
Project Code: 139
424-3642
amphitheatre will be built to replace the current
Duane Striegel, RR 1, Box 152, Leith, ND 58551;
one.
(701) 622-3268
Establishment of a local library in Streeter.
Project will be funded through donations.
Horsemen performing in precision, wearing
MIRROR LAKE BANDSHELL
cavalry uniforms and equipment used by soldiers
DUNSEITH TOURIST CENTER AND MUSEUM
Project Code: 381
at time of Custer's march to Little Big Horn.
Project Code: 167
Bob Owens, RR 2, Box 126, Hettinger, ND
Helen L. Doeling, Box 9, Dunseith, ND 58329;
58639; (701) 562-2401
BISMARCK MOUNTED POLICE
(701) 244-5195
Project Code: 235
The Hettinger Centennial Committee is sponsor-
Orlin I. Lyng, 1318 20th Street No., Bismarck,
Construction of a log building that will house a
ing a project to build a community band shell
ND 58501; (701) 223-0519
tourist information center, a souvenir and con-
in Mirror Lake Park.
signment shop, and eventually, a museum/
Bismarck Mounted Police will participate in
heritage center.
parades, rodeos, flag ceremonies, horse shows,
SHOWERS AT MEMORIAL PARK
and wagon trains during the Centennial year.
GRAIN PALACE BUILDING COMPLETION
Project Code: 318
Project Code: 184
Arlene Hoffner, Rt. 1, Box 61, Esmond, ND
TACK 'N' TRAIL DRILL TEAM
Doris Langager, Box 501, Ray, ND 58849; (701)
58332
Project Code: 237
568-2229
The Esmond Evergreen City Centennial Com-
Lina Lamsters, Box 3, Stanton, ND 58571; (701)
Completion of the grain palace building, a struc-
mittee.plans to construct a building with showers
745-3213
ture to be used for exhibitions, fairs, meetings,
at Randy Marthe Memorial Park.
4-H horsemanship club will perform drill routine
etc. Landscaping around the building will also
for parades, rodeos and horse shows. Available
be completed.
DANCE
for scheduling.
PERCH CAPITOL OF THE WORLD
SQUARE DANCE CALLING
DAKOTA DANDIES
Project Code: 315
Project Code: 86
Project Code: 284
Lee Merkel, RR 5, Box 8, Devils Lake, ND
Howard Clemens, 1336 Sandstone Dr., West
Darlene Locken, 3305 SE 47th, Minot, ND
58301; (701) 662-5381
Fargo, ND 58078; (701) 282-6786
58701; (701) 838-6259
The Devils Lake Area Chamber of Commerce
North Dakota State Square Dance Callers
Dakota Dandies will perform colorful and intrigu-
wishes to erect a pre-fabricated perch on
Association will promote and teach square
ing equestrian maneuvers with musical accom-
Chamber property.
dancing at local and state gatherings.
paniment. Available for scheduling.
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JAMESTOWN DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS
WALHALLA PEOPLE'S CELEBRATION
BEYOND THE BEAR NECESSITIES
Project Code: 289
Project Code: 81
Project Code: 444
Craig M. Woodward, Box 913, Jamestown, ND
Kathy Stremick, P.O. Box 318, Walhalla, ND
Terry Lincoln, P.O. Box 711, Bismarck, ND
58402; (701) 252-2850
58282; (701) 549-2707
58502; (701) 223-7543
The Jamestown Drum and Bugle Corps
Plans to use North Dakota Centennial to build
A development project of the Dakota Zoo at
performs at local events, conventions and
enthusiasm for a series of city and area preser-
Bismarck seeking to raise funds for a bear
parades throughout North Dakota and the U.S.
vation, rennovation and economic development
habitat.
Has represented Jamestown and North Dakota
projects.
at National Legion Convention.
CHRISTMAS LIGHTING CONTEST
FUTURE CAMPAIGN FOR ND 4-H
Project Code: 486
Project Code: 155
DRESS AND MUSIC REVIEW
Gail Bergstad, Velva, ND 58790; (701) 338-2011
Paul E. Overby, Box 5436 State University
Project Code: 304
Station, Fargo, ND 58105; (701) 237-0717
The Velva Association of Commerce is holding
Ginnette Ehli, RR, Box 26A, Dodge, ND 58625;
a Christmas decorating contest to support com-
(701) 846-7370
Development campaign to provide funds for
munity holiday activities and promote community
immediate needs of the North Dakota 4-H pro-
involvement.
The Dodge Dress and Music Review will
gram as well as insure long-term stability of the
feature clothes and music from the turn of the
North Dakota 4-H program.
century.
VETS MEMORIAL LIBRARY PIANO
PUBLIC TELEPHONE & RESTROOMS
Project Code: 494
DAKOTA WINDS RIDERS DRILL TEAM
Project Code: 228
Leann Halvorson, 1610 Canyon Drive, Bismarck,
Sallie Carlson, Box 86, Regent, ND 58650; (701)
ND 58501; (701) 255-0542
Project Code: 409-
563-4454
The Bismarck-Mandan Music Teachers Associa-
Terri Bohne, RR 1, Box 115, Scranton, ND
Installation of restrooms, a drinking fountain, and
tion is sponsoring a fund drive to raise $20,000
58653; (701) 275-8244
a public telephone at the Regent City Park.
for the purchase of a 7-foot grand piano for the
The Dakota Winds Drill Team will promote
Bismarck Veterans Memorial Library.
the state of North Dakota both in-state and
out-of-state at various functions they attend.
FLAG POLE & SCENIC OVERLOOK
Project Code: 229
STREET SIGNS AND HOUSE NUMBERS
Simon J. Greff, Box 86, Regent, ND 58650; (701)
Project Code: 292
CENTENNIAL SALUTE, FLORAL TRIBUTE
563-4491
R.F. "Pete" Matejcek, Box 65, Lankin, ND
Project Code: 429
Installation of a flag pole to be used to fly the
58250; (701) 593-6291
Ruth Omdahl, 1229 W. Coulee Road, Bismarck,
North Dakota Centennial flag and enhancement
Plan to erect street signs and assign house
ND 58501
of public access to the scenic overlook at
numbers.
The Centennial logo will be described and
Buffalo Butte.
interpreted to audiences through a flower
LIGHTED FLAG POLE AND BELL
arrangement assembled as a demonstration.
STREET SIGNS PROJECT
Project Code: 317
Project Code: 230
Doris Bures, Box 74, Ross, ND 58776; (701)
Simon J. Greff, Box 86, Regent, ND 58650; (701)
755-3255
STYLES OF THE 1880's
563-4491
Project Code: 441
The Ross American Legion Auxiliary will erect
Olive Brendemuhl, Rt. 1, Box 5, Hope, ND
Installation of street signs within the city limits
a lighted flag pole at the Ross Community
of Regent. Signs to be made by the Vo-Ag class
58046; (701) 945-2302
Building and move a bell from the Ross School
at Regent High School.
to the Bethlehem Lutheran Church yard.
The costume department of the Steele County
Historical Society will sponsor a traveling style
BIS-MAN TRANSIT BOARD, INC.
show with clothes and items from the Historical
Project Code: 234
EXHIBITS AND DISPLAYS
Society.
Cheryl Wescott, Box 5503, Bismarck, ND 58502;
(701) 255-7400
FT. RANSOM LIVING HISTORY FARM
CENTENNIAL INDIAN ENCAMPMENT
Development of a full-time transportation system
Project Code: 58
Project Code: 499
for elderly and handicapped citizens of the
Kenneth Grothe, Fort Ransom, ND 58033; (701)
Bismarck-Mandan area. Will coordinate with
973-2801
Terry Bernhardt, 208 East Main, Mandan, ND
58554; (701) 663-5977
existing transportation services.
A display of equipment, machinery, and other
The Mandan Centennial Committee will organize
artifacts of early pioneer life - present a display
CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROJECT
a Centennial Indian encampment consisting of
of 1900's activities July 4th weekend, 1989.
Project Code: 271
Indians from North Dakota and surrounding
Dr. Arne Brekke, 802 North 43rd Street, Grand
areas with tee-pees, horses, games and
EXHIBIT: 100 YEARS OF ND HISTORY
Forks, ND 58201; (701) 772-8999
contests.
Project Code: 90
Brekke Travel will bring to North Dakota during
Sebastian Schumacher, Jr., 2700 State Street,
the Centennial year thousands of visitors from
Bismarck, ND 58501; (701) 222-8350
Scandinavia and Germany eager to join the
Display to inform Gateway Mall shoppers and
DEVELOPMENT
celebration.
visitors about North Dakota to heighten interest
in the Centennial.
KEEP NORTH DAKOTA CLEAN
ND HOSPITALITY TRAINING PROGRAM
Project Code: 43
Project Code: 190
Carrol E. Burchinal, Capitol Building, Bismarck,
WEST FARGO LIBRARY PROJECT
Sheila Robinson, Box 1138, Bismarck, ND
58502; (701) 442-5335
ND 58505; (701) 224-2259
Project Code: 96
Mark L. Beaton, P.O. Box 576, West Fargo, ND
Keep North Dakota Clean, Inc. will provide
This program will prepare the service industry
58078; (701) 282-3232
leadership and support to beautification pro-
in North Dakota for a banner tourism year in
grams in communities and rural areas.
1989. Vocational educators will present
A section of West Fargo library will be devoted
customer service workshops in over 60
to history of West Fargo.
communities.
BIS-MAN SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT
NEEDLEWORK, HISTORIC ART FORM
Project Code: 57
SOYOIL INK
Project Code: 102
Nancy A. Swenson, Box 2031, Bismarck, ND
Project Code: 371
Helen Parkman, Hope, ND 58046; (701) 945-2444
58502, (701) 258-8345
Mark F. Weber, 1351 Page Dr., Suite 201, Fargo,
Collect, clean and frame samples of needlework,
An endowment fund to be established to provide
ND 58103; (701) 293-3770
classify and record needlework made in North
lasting financial support for the symphony's
The North Dakota Soybean Council is promoting
Dakota. Will result in permanent traveling
future.
the use of newspaper ink made from soybeans.
exhibit.
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HERITAGE CENTER EXHIBITS
THE ARCHITECT'S EYE
EQUALLY FREE AND INDEPENDENT
Project Code: 110
Project Code: 171
Project Code: 262
C.L. Dill, North Dakota Heritage Center,
Ann Marie Beckstrom, Box 37, Moorhead, MN
Chris Dill, North Dakota Heritage Center,
Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2670
56560; (218) 236-7171
Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2670
This project will be to complete the permanent
Plains Art Museum will be showing an exhibi-
Chosen as "the Centennial traveling exhibit,"
exhibits in the Main Gallery of the North Dakota
tion of architectural drawings, each the product
Equally Free and Independent is an exhibit
Heritage Center.
of a North Dakotan or of an out-of-state designer
which tells the story of North Dakota's history
for a projected location in North Dakota.
through an inspection of the state's constitution.
SALUTE ND CENTENNIAL EXHIBIT
DAKOTA 100/INTN'L EXHIBIT
Project Code: 122
Project Code: 173
THE WAY TO INDEPENDENCE
Fred Anderson, West Acres Shopping Center,
Fargo, ND 58103; (701) 282-2222
Dennis Navrat, Dept. of Art, DSU, Dickinson, ND
Project Code: 264
58601; (701) 227-2312
Chris Dill, North Dakota Heritage Center,
West Acres plans to promote the Centennial with
Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2670
displays in '87, '88, '89. Historical societies and
An international competition of artworks on
museum are expected to be main exhibitors.
paper co-sponsored and exhibited by Dickinson
Exhibit, developed and prepared by the Min-
State University and the University of South
nesota Historical Society, tells the story of the
Dakota. 100 works will be exhibited.
Hidatsa of west-central North Dakota from 1839
"A LONG WAY TO SEE" (PHOTOS)
through 1920.
Project Code: 127
HERITAGE CENTER & TRADING POST
Wayne M. Gudmundson, 1430 7th Street South,
Project Code: 176
Fargo, ND 58103; (701) 241-4708
ROUND BARNS
Charles J. Gourneau, P.O. Box 257, Belcourt,
ND 58316; (701) 477-5605
Project Code: 265
Seeks to provide North Dakota with a new view
Chris Dill, North Dakota Heritage Center,
of prairie landscape by using photo exhibit,
Engaged in the ongoing task of preserving
Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2670
photo and poetry book, an interpretive video,
artifacts, history, music, arts, crafts, culture
lectures and video of symposium.
and talents of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa
Heritage Center exhibit celebrating the ethnic
diversity of North Dakota through a detailed
(Ojibway) tribe.
EMBOSSED BOTTLE DISPLAY
interpretation of the state's round barns.
Project Code: 133
DAY IN THE LIFE - NORTH DAKOTA
Wilbert S. Adolf, Box 398, Beulah, ND 58523;
Project Code: 201
KNIFE RIVER FLINT
(701) 873-2924
Tracy Potter, Liberty Memorial Building,
Project Code: 266
A display of embossed drug store bottles made
Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2525
Chris Dill, North Dakota Heritage Center,
before 1914.
A statewide photography project involving 50 or
Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2670
more accomplished and student photographers.
Heritage Center exhibit illustrating the centuries-
ND CENTENNIAL JURIED ART EXHIBITION
Resulting photos will appear in "Horizons
old exploitation of Knife River flint, North
Project Code: 149
Magazine" and a special traveling exhibit.
Dakota's first mining export product.
Ardyce Miller, 111 Sioux Avenue, Bismarck, ND
58501; (701) 223-3065
DAIRYING IN NORTH DAKOTA
Project Code: 214
MISSOURI RIVER EXHIBIT
A juried exhibit of 40 works will travel North
Deborah Johnson, 4023 N. State Street,
Project Code: 267
Dakota for eight months. Any artist having lived
Bismarck, ND 58501; (701) 224-3134
Chris Dill, North Dakota Heritage Center,
or still living in North Dakota is eligible. A
Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2670
poster/catalog/postcard series will be produced.
An exhibit about the history of dairying in North
Dakota. Antiques and current equipment will be
Heritage Center exhibit focusing on the finding
featured as well as literature on the industry.
and exploration of North Dakota through a
KIDDER COUNTY ANTIQUE DISPLAY
review of the Missouri River's history as a
Project Code: 159
CENTENNIAL COLT REVOLVER COLLECTION
transportation route, landmark, water source,
Susie White, Box 409, Steele, ND 58482; (701)
Project Code: 218
etc.
475-2221
Gregory M. Beach, 211 NP Ave., Fargo, ND
Remodeled Lone Steer motel, restaurant and
58102; (701) 280-0067
DOCUMENTS WEST: NORTH DAKOTA
lounge displays hundreds of antiques con-
Collection of Colt revolvers will be available for
tributed by people from throughout Kidder
Project Code: 268
display to any organization with adequate
Chris Dill, North Dakota Heritage Center,
County. Brochure available.
facilities and insurance during the Centennial
Bismarck, ND 58501; (701) 224-2670
year.
WOODLAWN HOTEL
Heritage Center exhibit focusing on the
philosophical and legal founding of the state
Project Code: 160
RESTORATION OF SOD HOUSE
Susie White, Box 409, Steele, ND 58480; (701)
through review of documents related to the
Project Code: 498
space we call North Dakota.
475-2221
Norma Brekke, 424 1st St., Milnor, ND 58060;
Owner of the historic Woodlawn Hotel will
(701) 427-9335
provide tours from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Many antique
ND/SD BANNER DISPLAY
The Milnor Centennial Committee plans to
articles and furnishings.
restore a sod house, that was built for the Milnor
Project Code: 269
Mark A. Johnson, ND Assoc. of Counties, Box
Centennial, by the end of the summer of 1989.
KIDDER COUNTY COURTHOUSE
417, Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 258-4481
Project Code: 161
ND TRADE MERCHANT TOKENS
Display to travel to county courthouses
Susie White, Box 409, Steele, ND 58480; (701)
Project Code: 250
throughout North Dakota. Featured are replica
475-2221
Russ Hornbacher, Box 456, Regan, ND 58477;
banners commemorating the 1880 convention
Historical items will be displayed in the Kidder
(701) 286-6205
during which North Dakota and South Dakota
County Courthouse in Steele. A history and self-
agreed to division.
Display of North Dakota trade merchant tokens.
guided tour are available to visitors.
Collection includes about 300 tokens.
PICTORIAL, HISTORICAL DISPLAYS
ART EXHIBIT: PRAIRIE PATTERNS
PETRIFIED TREE STUMPS
Project Code: 283
Project Code: 164
Project Code: 256
Janet Elkin, 12th Floor, State Capitol, Bismarck,
Donna Evenson, Suite 606 Black Building,
Melvin H. Anderson, Box 2445, Bismarck, ND
ND 58505; (701) 224-2409
Fargo, ND 58102; (701) 237-8962
58502; (701) 223-3558
North Dakota Public Service Commission to
The NDCA will research and design a major
Central Dakota Gem and Mineral Society is
commemorate North Dakota's Centennial by
exhibit of the traditional crafts and folk arts of
planning to place two large petrified tree stumps
developing historical, pictorial displays on sub-
North Dakota. Exhibit titled "Prairie Patterns:
on the Capitol Grounds. A plaque will provide
jects such as grain warehousing, mining and
Traveling Folk Art Exhibit."
information about geological history.
railroads.
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"NORD DAKOTA 100 AR"
CENTENNIAL DISPLAY/OPEN HOUSE
ORIGINAL WATER COLORS
Project Code: 355
Project Code: 427
Project Code: 476
Oyvind Rasmussen, Lile Ovregate 4, 5018
Bonny Fetch, Central Personnel, State Capitol,
June L. Erfert, P.O. Box 112, Plaza, ND 58771;
Bergen, Norway
14th Floor, Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-3290
(701) 497-3796
An exhibition in Norway with old photos and
Central Personnel Division will have a Centen-
Displayed at the Plaza Congregational Church
history from the first emigration from Norway to
nial "Fame and Fortune" event, an agency
Museum are matted, framed original watercolors
North Dakota. Sponsored by the Sons of
display, an open house and newsletter articles.
of birds, animals, Indian portraits, etc., by June
Norway Bergen Lodge.
L. Erfert.
NORTH DAKOTA EDUCATION DISPLAY
SPORTSMAN'S PARADISE
Project Code: 436
Project Code: 356
Bradley E. Schmidt, RR 2, Box 63, Petersburg,
MARCH OF CIVILIZATION EXHIBIT
C.L. Dill, North Dakota Heritage Center,
ND 58272; (701) 345-8453
Project Code: 484
Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2670
C.L. Dill, North Dakota Heritage Center,
The Petersburg Rural Fire Protection District will
The State Historical Society of North Dakota will
Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2670
have a permanently encased exhibit of rural
host an exhibit entitled "Sportman's Paradise"
education consisting of pictorial history and
The State Historical Society of North Dakota is
which will include hunting and fishing in North
articles on education in their area.
sponsoring an exhibit at the North Dakota
Dakota illustrated by equipment, guns and
Heritage Center about the parade in Bismarck
photographs.
COWBOY AND RANCHER DISPLAY
on July 4, 1889.
"WITH THIS RING"
Project Code: 437
Project Code: 357
J.W. Lind, 115 Prairiewood Dr., Fargo, ND
BAGG FARM EXHIBIT
C.L. Dill, North Dakota Heritage Center,
58103; (701) 293-1192
Project Code: 485
Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2670
Articles used by cowboys and ranchers in
C.L. Dill, North Dakota Heritage Center,
The State Historical Society of North Dakota will
Dakota Territory and early days of North Dakota
Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2670
host an exhibit entitled "With This Ring:
statehood will be displayed. It includes revolvers,
The State Historical Society of North Dakota will
Wedding Traditions Through the Ages," in-
rifles, saddles, chaps, spurs, etc.
sponsor an exhibit that will explore the history
cludes wedding practices, relationships and
of the Bagg bonanza farm in June and August
history.
CENTENNIAL PRIDE
1989.
Project Code: 451
CLOTHES FIT FOR A MARQUISE
Glenn E. Bertsch, 1727 N. 3rd St., Bismarck, ND
Project Code: 358
LICENSE PLATE COLLECTION
58501; (701) 221-3435
C.L. Dill, North Dakota Heritage Center,
Project Code: 495
Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2670
The 1988-89 Northridge 6th grade class of Mr.
Anton Kuntz, 100 N. Bennett, Bottineau, ND
Bertsch will put together a 6'x10' state map
58318; (701) 228-2103
The State Historical Society of North Dakota will
showing counties and county seats. Entitled
host an exhibit entitled "Clothes Fit For A Mar-
A complete collection of North Dakota license
"Centennial Pride: 53 Strong and Growing."
quise." It will contain several pieces of clothing
plates from 1911 to the present as well as from
worn by Medora at the Chateau.
every state in the union and every Canadian
BRONZE CENTENNIAL PLAQUE
province, will be available for scheduling.
LOOKING BACKWARD/WORLD OF 1889
Project Code: 453
Project Code: 365
Donald Helbling, P.O. Box 639, Mandan, ND
Everett C. Albers, P.O. Box 2191, Bismarck, ND
58554; (701) 663-9821
58502-2191; (701) 663-1948
The L&H Mfg. Company Inc. DBA Metal Arts will
The North Dakota Humanities Council will spon-
provide a bronze plaque for the State Capitol
sor a state-wide exhibit of the political events and
grounds.
cultural expression around the world in 1889.
"THEN AND NOW" NORTH DAKOTA MAP
SUITCASE EXHIBITS/S*E*N*D
Project Code: 458
Project Code: 391
Jon Sosalla, P.O. Box 593, Lisbon, ND 58054
Marcia Britton Wolter, North Dakota Heritage
The Lisbon Education Association made a map
Center, Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2799
EVENTS
that illustrates annual events, historical sites and
This project is to expand the already popular
general points of interest in the state.
FARGO SCANDINAVIAN FESTIVAL
S*E*N*D program. New topics include: Water,
North Dakota Women, 100 Years of Children
Project Code: 6
N.D.'S WATER/HIST. PERSPECTIVE
and Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara Indians.
Vince Lindstrom, P.O. Box 2164, Fargo, ND
Project Code: 465
58107; (701) 237-6134
CELEBRATION OF CHILDREN
Dennis Nelson, 900 E. Boulevard, Bismarck, ND
Project Code: 400
58505; (701) 224-4989
To celebrate Nordic heritage at the on-going
Scandinavian Festival scheduled June 21-24
Irene Sondreal, RR 1, Box 114, Buxton, ND
The North Dakota State Water Commission will
with performers from five countries. Ethnic
58218; (701) 847-2638
have a permanent display entitled "North Dakota
foods, crafts, films, and dance on last night.
This project is a "Suitcase Exhibit for North
Water: A Historical Perspective."
Dakota" with the theme, Celebration of Children.
Games, holidays, work habits, life in prairie
LIQUID TREASURE/S*E*N*D TRUNK
FARGO FIRE FESTIVAL
Project Code: 466
Project Code: 8
towns included.
Dennis Nelson, 900 E. Boulevard, Bismarck, ND
Vince Lindstrom, P.O. Box 2164, Fargo, ND
OLD WOODWORKING TOOLS DISPLAY
58505; (701) 224-4989
58107; (701) 237-6134
Project Code: 407
The North Dakota State Water Commission will
Commemorate rebuilding of Fargo after fire on
James L. Rask, P.O. Box 674, Riverdale, ND
develop a trunk for the Historical Society's
June 6, 1893. Fargo and West Fargo fire depart-
58565; (701) 654-7508
S*E*N*D program. It will include artifacts,
ments will be involved in organization. May result
A large collection of old woodworking tools will
photographs, documents and a background
in North Dakota Fire Fighters Hall of Fame.
be available for display and demonstration.
report.
FARGO WINTER FESTIVAL
UKRAINIANS IN NORTH DAKOTA HISTORY
A CENTENNIAL HOTEL
Project Code: 10
Project Code: 412
Project Code: 467
Vince Lindstrom, P.O. Box 2164, Fargo, ND
Agnes Palanuk, Dickinson State University, Box
Jill Jonason, P.O. Box 9555, Fargo, ND 58109;
58107; (701) 237-6134
6, Dickinson, ND 58601; (701) 227-8221
(701) 282-2700
Outdoor celebration with long distance dog sled
The Ukrainian Cultural Institute will have a
The Fargo Holiday Inn will have a display in their
race, cross country skiing and winter events —
display focusing on the role of Ukrainians in
lobby promoting Centennial products and
Fargo-Moorhead-West Fargo Parks and Rec.
North Dakota's 100 year history.
keepsakes.
and local chambers.
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ALL SCHOOL REUNION-WEST FARGO
CHRISTMAS ON THE PRAIRIE
DAKOTA TERRITORY CENTENNIAL
Project Code: 22
Project Code: 112
Project Code: 148
Mark L. Beaton, P.O. Box 576, West Fargo, ND
David G. Staples, P.O. Box 719, West Fargo, ND
Donald I. Larson, 14 Minot International Airport,
58078; (702) 282-3232
58078; (701) 282-2822
Minot, ND 58701; (701) 852-2018
All former students are invited to attend the All
Annual holiday kick-off event at Bonanzaville,
A two day air show will provide entertainment
School Reunion from June 30 to July 2, 1989.
USA, West Fargo.
and portray past and present aviation. Participa-
Parade, tours and other events are planned.
tion by confederate air force, current military,
ND CENTENNIAL AIR SHOW OF FARGO
"4TH OF JULY IN BISMARCK"
and civilian aviators.
Project Code: 4
Project Code: 114
Vince Lindstrom, P.O. Box 2164, Fargo, ND
Pam Davy, 1205 Glacial Dr., Minot, ND 58701;
1989 WAGON TRAIN DAYS
58107; (701) 237-6134
(701) 852-2368
Project Code: 150
Air show in June 1989 in Fargo, only as Fargo
Jim Abbott, 121 West First Street, Jamestown,
KX-TV Network will offer entertainment on the
aviators know how to do it!
ND 58401; (701) 252-4830
4th of July, 1989, on mall of state capitol in
Bismarck. Part of "The Party of the Century."
"Wagon Train Days" is an annual event which
RED RIVER VALLEY CENTENNIAL FAIR
coordinates with the annual Jamestown wagon
Project Code: 23
train.
Mark L. Beaton, P.O. Box 576, West Fargo, ND
RICHLAND COUNTY CELEBRATION
58078; (701) 282-3232
Project Code: 118
ND CENTENNIAL TRAPSHOOT
Joan Edwards, P.O. Box 715, Wahpeton, ND
The Red River Valley Centennial Fair will be held
Project Code: 154
58075; (701) 642-3033
July 12-17, 1989 at the Fairgrounds in West
Chester E. Nelson, Jr., 402 E. Brandon Dr.,
Fargo.
Richland County will celebrate July 1-4 in
Bismarck, ND 58501; (701) 224-2913
Wahpeton. County courthouse will be
Trapshoot under the auspices of the North
BIG IRON AG EQUIPMENT EXPO
rededicated and an interpretive center will be
Dakota Trapshooting Assoc. and hosted by
Project Code: 24
dedicated at city park.
Capital City Gun Club. The event will take place
Mark L. Beaton, P.O. Box 576, West Fargo, ND
June 2-4, 1989, in Bismarck.
58078; (701) 282-3232
4TH OF JULY, HETTINGER
Big Iron is a show of agricultural equipment held
Project Code: 121
A.W. "DOC" HILL BAND DAY 1989
at the Red River Valley Fair Grounds from
Bob Owens, RR 2, Box 126, Hettinger, ND
Project Code: 158
September 12-14, 1989.
58639; (701) 567-2401
Anne C. Russell, P.O. Box 1675, Bismarck, ND
Hettinger 4th of July celebrations is a five-year-
58502; (701) 223-5660
FORT UNION RENDEZVOUS
old annual event which attracts 2,000 to 4,000
All high school and junior high school bands
Project Code: 36
people. '89 edition offers activities and events
across the state are invited to particiate in the
Greg W. Hennessy, Drawer 1526, Williston, ND
in July 3, 4 and 5.
A.W. "Doc" Hill Band Day Parade scheduled
58802; (701) 572-3794
for May 13, 1989, in Bismarck.
A rendezvous during which Ft. Union will be
NORSK HOSTFEST
dedicated — 100-200 lodges expected - special
Project Code: 130
CENT. PIONEER DAYS CELEBRATION
guests.
Chester M. Reiten, P.O. Box 2111, Minot, ND
Project Code: 168
58702; (701) 852-2104
Merrill Krueger, P.O. Box 254, Rolette, ND
MCLEAN/SHERIDAN SCHOOLS
Norsk Hostfest is an annual Scandinavian
58366; (701) 246-3885
Project Code: 38
celebration held in October in Minot. Entertain-
A three-day Centennial celebration scheduled
James Fischer, McLean County Courthouse,
Washburn, ND 58577; (701) 462-8541
ment, Scandinavian foods, crafts, and music are
for the third weekend in September in 1989.
featured.
Annual academic competition will feature ques-
GANDY DANCERS BALLS
tions on North Dakota history, geography, cur-
NORTH DAKOTA STATE FAIR
Project Code: 170
rent events, agriculture, and people.
Kurt Krim, Box 940, Minot, ND 58701; (701)
Project Code: 141
852-1900
ART FAIR '89
Gerald Iverson, Box 1796, Minot, ND 58702;
(701) 852-3113
A street dance on Main Street, featuring three
Project Code: 46
Centennial year edition of the state fair, using
bands, beer gardens and other fun events. Fund
Karen F. Syvertson, 522 N. 6th St., Bismarck,
the Centennial as theme.
raiser for community projects.
ND 58501; (701) 223-5986
The on-going Art Fair will present its Centennial
Y'S MENS INDOOR RODEO
edition attracting 10,000-12,000 people - will
PIONEER DAYS
Project Code: 172
feature 130 artisans, performing groups and food
Project Code: 143
Dennis J. Nordquist, 1st St. and 1st Ave. SE,
booths on Capitol grounds.
Mary Kaye Duttenhefer, Drawer C, Dickinson,
Minot, ND 58701; (701) 852-3361
ND 58601; (701) 227-0323
CENTENNIAL CONFERENCES
34th annual PRCA sanctioned indoor rodeo to
Project Code: 73
Historic tours, craft show and demonstrations,
be held at the All Seasons Arena in Minot
Joan F. Campbell, 139 2nd Ave. SE., P.O. Box
wagon train, pioneer award banquet, food judg-
October 6-9, 1988. Proceeds to be donated to
298, Valley City, ND 58072; (701) 845-4300
ing contests, entertainment, ice cream social.
youth at the YMCA and a specified youth camp.
Three statewide conferences - Medora-June
ND CENTENNIAL HALF-MARATHON
1987, Minot-May 1988 and Fargo-May 15-21,
ROUGHRIDER DAYS
Project Code: 174
1989. Directed to elderly service providers.
Project Code: 144
Patti Norman, P.O. Box 248, Grand Forks, ND
Gary Conlon, Drawer C, Dickinson, ND 58601;
GRAND LODGES CELEBRATION
58206-0248; (701) 746-2750
(701) 225-9855
Project Code: 93
Carnival, barn dance, parade, tractor pull, rodeo,
A half-marathon through the city of Grand Forks
Paul L. Burkhardt, 201 14th Avenue North,
fireworks display, Roughrider auction, horse pull,
and outlying areas. The run will have a loop
Fargo, ND 58102; (701) 235-8321
course and will begin and end at the UND
demolition derby, 3 wheel race.
Commemorating dissolution of Grand Lodge
Memorial Stadium. Event will take place in '88
and '89.
A.F. and A.M. of Dakota Territory into Grand
Lodges A.F. and A.M. of North and South Dakota.
DAKOTA CENTENNIAL FOLK FESTIVAL
Project Code: 147
SHELDON HOMETOWN REUNION
PIONEER DAYS REVIEW
Donna Evanson, Black Bldg., Suite 606, Fargo,
Project Code: 179
Project Code: 111
ND 58102; (701) 237-8962
Marie L. Boeder, Box 33, Sheldon, ND 58068;
David G. Staples, P.O. Box 719, West Fargo, ND
The North Dakota Council on the Arts is
(701) 882-3405
58078; (701) 282-2822
sponsoring a festival celebrating ethnic, tribal
A weekend of old-fashioned community activities
Pioneer Days Review is an annual August event
and occupational cultures of North Dakota -
scheduled for June 17 and 18, 1989. Activities
conducted at Bonanzaville, USA, West Fargo.
three stages - 200 perform.
to include games, crafts, parade, picnic, etc.
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OFFICIAL JULY 4TH CENTENNIAL PARADE
WILLISTON AIR SHOW
ASHLEY CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
Project Code: 183
Project Code: 205
Project Code: 260
Chamber of Commerce, Box 546, Mandan, ND
Maria Johnson, P.O. Box G, Williston, ND
Edwin J. Kramer, 113 West Main, Ashley, ND
58554; (701) 663-5977
58802; (701) 572-3767
58413; (701) 288-3922
The official North Dakota Centennial parade on
Air show with participants from several states.
Celebration commemorating Ashley's Centen-
July 4, 1989. Floats and other units from
Attracts spectators from North Dakota, South
nial as well as the state's Centennial. 100 mile
throughout the state will illustrate and celebrate
Dakota, Montana, Minnesota and Canada.
run to kick-off celebration. Other events in-
our state's culture and heritage.
cluding wagon train, pageant demonstrations.
LAKE METIGOSHE "BUD LIGHT" TRIA.
WILLISTON'S 59TH BAND DAY
Project Code: 207
AM AGRI-WOMEN NAT'L CONVENTION
Project Code: 185
Triathlon that includes a 1/2 mile swim, a 9.75
Project Code: 280
Howard Klug, P.O. Box G, Williston, ND 58802;
mile run, and a 19.5 mile bicycle race. Open to
Evelyn Landis, Box 329, Larimore, ND 58251;
(701) 774-9041
men and women, age 14 and older, competing
(701) 343-6232
To promote Williston by bringing in bands from
in teams and as individuals.
North Dakota Agri-Women will host the American
North Dakota, Montana, South Dakota and
Canada. A parade is held in the morning and
NORTHERN BTLG. 100KM BIKE RACE
Agri-Women Convention in North Dakota in
a free concert in the park in the afternoon.
Project Code: 208
November of 1989. Highlighted will be the con-
Keith M. Jiskra, RR 1, Box 165, Bottineau, ND
tributions of farm women to our heritage.
BOWMAN CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
58318; (701) 228-2468
Project Code: 187
FLICKERTAIL WOODCARVERS EXTRAV.
100 KM bicycle race starting at Lake Metigoshe,
Opal Burns, Box 12, Bowman, ND 58623; (701)
Project Code: 288
going through Dunseith and Bottineau and
523-3309
Frank Koch, Show Chairperson, 315 Saturn Dr.,
ending at Lake Metigoshe. A 50 KM race is also
Bismarck, ND 58501; (701) 255-0280
Year long Centennial celebration consisting of
scheduled for July 4th.
such events as the county fair, rodeo finals, craft
The extravaganza will include woodcarving
show, band concerts, and an all-school reunion.
ND CENTENNIAL PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW
demonstrations, exhibition of antique wood duck
Project Code: 220
decoys and carvings from past carvers. Some
NORTHERN NEIGHBORS DAY
Mary Ellen Parker, Route 1, Box 81, Bismarck,
will have Centennial themes.
Project Code: 189
ND 58577; (701) 462-3673
Col. Bruce Twine, Minot AFB C/O CSG/CC,
LANKIN POLKA FESTIVAL
Juried Centennial photography show to feature
Minot AFB, ND 58705; (701) 723-2205
photos by North Dakota photographers. The
Project Code: 290
This annual event will include an air show, an
show, which is an annual event, will take place
Rodney W. Bosh, General Delivery, Lankin, ND
open house, and a performance by the famed
in June 1989.
58250; (701) 593-6140
"Showbirds." Scheduled for August 20, 1989.
Plans are to hold in annual polka festival in
DAKOTA CENTENNIAL ARTS CONGRESS
Lankin the second week in June 1988.
WINTERFEST
Project Code: 225
Project Code: 191
Donna Evanson, Suite 606, Black Building,
HOOPLE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
Jackie Moger, 1020 20 Ave. SW, Minot, ND
Fargo, ND 58102; (701) 237-8962
Project Code: 294
58701; (701) 857-4771
Arts Congress will be a joint meeting of North
Gene Olson and Tom Johnson, P.O. Box 233,
This will be the Minot Winterfest's 20th annual
Dakota and South Dakota artists and arts organ-
Hoople, ND 58243; (701) 894-6367
event. Many activities take place in Minot involv-
izations in Aberdeen in September of 1989. Will
Hoople is celebrating its 100th birthday in 1989.
ing all age groups.
include performances, exhibits, workshops, etc.
The biggest community project will be a
Hoople Centennial book. Beautification, tree
ROUGH RIDER INTERNATIONAL ART SHOW
TOWER CITY CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
planting and reunion are included.
Project Code: 192
Project Code: 227
Howard Klug, P.O. Box G, Williston, ND 58802;
Marcella Richman, Box 46, Tower City, ND
JUD CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
(701) 774-9041
58071; (701) 758-2687
Project Code: 297
International Art Show with artists from most of
Celebration scheduled for June 16-18, 1989,
Mark Elhard, Committee President, RR 1, Box
the western states and Canada exhibiting their
which will include an all-school reunion, state
64, Jud, ND 58454; (701) 685-2293
work. Emphasis of the show is western art and
horse pull, horseshoe tournament, and an all
Jud's Centennial celebration will include: a
wildlife.
faith church service.
parade, a play, pageant, antique show and city
WILLISTON SPORTS AND REC. SHOW
beautification project.
ND CENTENNIAL PICNIC AND BARN DANCE
Project Code: 193
Project Code: 249
Howard Klug, P.O. Box G, Williston, ND 58802;
DODGE ALL SCHOOL REUNION
Don Welsh, 454 5th Avenue, Valley City, ND
(701) 774-9041
58072; (701) 845-2274
Project Code: 299
Ginnettee Ehli, RR, Box 26A, Dodge, ND 58625;
Exhibits feature a wide variety of sports and
North Dakota Centennial picnic featuring water
(701) 846-7370
recreation items. This brings people to Williston
show, parade of boats, games, barbeque,
from Canada, Eastern Montana and Western
horseshoe tournament, etc. Centennial barn
The Dodge All School Reunion will take place
North Dakota.
dance in the state's largest barn. Scheduled for
in the Dodge High School or Dodge Auditorium.
Graduates will be introduced. There will be
July 15, 1989.
NORTH DAKOTA WINTER SHOW
speakers and a buffet lunch or supper.
Project Code: 197
CENTENNIAL CAMPORALL
Kenneth H. Hoelmer, Box 846, Valley City, ND
Project Code: 253
DODGE SADDLE CLUB RODEO
58072; (701) 845-1401
Loren Stach, 301 South 7th Street, Fargo, ND
Project Code: 300
The Centennial observance of this well-known
58103; (701) 293-5011
Ginnette Ehli, RR, Box 25A, Dodge, ND 58625;
and well-attended annual event. Among the
(701) 846-7370
Northern Lights Council of the Boy Scouts of
featured events are crop shows, commercial ex-
America will sponsor a Camporall in June of
The Dodge Saddle Club will hole a rodeo on July
hibits, livestock shows, and a rodeo.
1988. The Camporall will feature programs and
4, 1989. It will be a two or three day event.
activities with a Centennial theme.
36TH HARD RED SPRING WHEAT SHOW
DODGE PARADE
Project Code: 204
NATIONAL CIRCUIT FINALS RODEO
Project Code: 303
Maria Johnson, P.O. Box G, Williston, ND
Project Code: 254
Ginnette Ehli, RR, Box 26A, Dodge, ND 58625;
58802; (701) 572-3767
Jim Sutton, Box 33, Onida, SD 57564; (605)
(701) 846-7370
Three-day event designed to educate youth and
258-2540
The Dodge Diamond Jubilee parade will include:
adults about the field of agriculture. The event
Sutton Rodeo, Inc., is seeking to attract the
horses, old and new cars, farm machinery,
draws spectators from North Dakota, Montana
national circuit finals rodeo to the Dakotas in
public service vehicles (fire trucks), bands and
and Canada.
1989. The finals are held the first week in April.
novelty acts from the area.
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DEVILS LAKE SUMMER FESTIVAL
FT. UNION RENDEZVOUS
JOHN NEUMANN FAMILY REUNION
Project Code: 313
Project Code: 390
Project Code: 450
A.M. Bergstrom, P.O. Box 987, Devils Lake, ND
Paul L. Hedren, Ft. Union, Buford Route,
Norman C. Neumann, 210 15th Ave. N.E.,
58301
Williston, ND 58801; (701) 572-9083
Jamestown, ND 58401; (701) 252-1873
North Dakota Chautauqua of Devils Lake re-
The Fort Union Trading Post Rendezvous will
The John Neumann family will gather in
established having a summer festival in 1976,
take place June 15-18, 1989 at the Fort Union
Bismarck on July 8 and 9, 1989 for a family
a tradition started in 1893. It will include: arts,
Trading Post, 24 miles southwest of Williston.
reunion to include entertainment, ethnic foods
recreation and entertainment.
and a church service.
RED RIVER VALLEY FAIR
NELSON COUNTY CENT. HOMECOMING
Project Code: 396
100 YEARS OF WORSHIP
Project Code: 343
Jennifer Johnson Seltzer, P.O. Box 797, West
Project Code: 455
Harold Enstad, P.O. Box 23, Pekin, ND 58361;
Fargo, ND 58078; (701) 282-2200
Rev. Thomas E. Kramer, 519 Raymond St.,
(701) 296-4419
Bismarck, ND 58501; (701) 223-1033
Centennial additions to the Red River Valley Fair
The Nelson County Centennial Committee is
will include: special trophies and ribbons, booth
A celebration including a prayer serivce at mid-
having a Centennial celebration on June 24 and
theme contest and Centennial theme parade.
night on December 31, 1988, a commemorative
25, 1989 which will include a barbeque, dance,
bookmark and a talk at the Heritage Center on
fireworks and family picnic.
MISSOURI RIVER EXPO
Sunday, January 29, 1989.
Project Code: 404
MIDSUMMER FAIR
CHARLIE MAY BENEFIT POKER RUN
Mary Van Sickle, P.O. Box 1075, Bismarck, ND
Project Code: 344
Project Code: 456
58502; (701) 222-6575
James R. Walker, Box 257, Ft. Yates, ND 58538;
Scott Ressler, P.O. Box 1098, Bismarck, ND
The Missouri River Expo is four days and nights
(701) 854-7231
58502; (701) 255-3417
of entertainment, carnival rides, foods and
The High Plains Drifters Motorcycle Club will
The Missouri Valley Fair Association will spon-
exhibits.
host a fund raiser to assist Lindsey May in secur-
sor nightly dances (July 1-4, 1989) and a car-
ing a college education.
nival. Eastbound wagons will meet here before
FT. UNION GRAND DEDICATION
going to the Mandan Rendezvous.
Project Code: 405
TOWNER RODEO AND PARADE
Paul L. Hedren, RR 3, Box 71, Williston, ND
CELEBRATING SCIENCE
Project Code: 345
58801; (701) 572-9083
Project Code: 468
Johnny Piatz, Towner, ND 58788; (701)
The grand dedication will consist of two days of
Bonnie Heidel, Box 8123, University Station,
537-5703
special events including living history presenta-
Grand Forks, ND 58202-8123; (701) 224-4887
The Towner Rodeo Association will host a
tions, musical concerts, tours and formal open-
The North Dakota Academy of Science is spon-
Centennial parade and 30th Towner rodeo
ing ceremonies.
soring a 2-part project called "Celebrating
parade.
Science - A Century of Education and Research
SPRING LAKE PARK FAMILY FESTIVAL
in North Dakota." Event April 27-28, 1989.
100 YEARS OF MUSIC AND DANCE
Project Code: 411
Project Code: 352
Rich Haugen, 315 E. Broadway, Williston, ND
ND CENTENNIAL LUTHERAN HOUR RALLY
Harriet Hendricks, Wyndmere, ND 58081; (701)
58801; (701) 572-8306
Project Code: 470
439-2840
The Williston Jaycees and Parks and Recrea-
Elmer H. Reiner, 1405 3rd St. S., Bismarck, ND
Richland County residents will have a musical
tion Department will promote the family unit by
58504; (701) 224-9873
celebration July 2, 1989. The festival is entitled
having a Spring Lake Park Family Festival which
The Lutheran Layman's League will sponsor a
"100 Years of Music and Dance - A Musical
will have parent and child activities.
Lutheran Hour Rally at the Civic Auditorium in
Revival" to be held in Wahpeton, ND.
Bismarck September 24, 1989.
PIONEER TOWN
PRAIRIE PRIDE ON ICE
ST. ALPHONSUS CELEBRATION
Project Code: 416
Project Code: 359
Del Svalen, Braddock, ND 58524; (701)
Project Code: 483
Ken Loveland, P.O. Box 1802, Jamestown, ND
332-6632
Roger Gendreau, 209 10th Ave., Langdon, ND
58401; (701) 252-0234
58249; (701) 256-2354
The South Central Threshing Association will
The James River Figure Skating Club will pre-
hold its annual threshing bee the weekend
The St. Alphonsus School in Langdon, ND will
sent its 12th Annual Ice Show with an ethnic and
following Labor Day.
hold an ethnic food fair on January 30-February
historic theme.
3, 1989.
ALL-SANISH REUNION
84TH ANNUAL CHAMBER MEETING
INDEPENDENT LIVING CONFERENCE
Project Code: 369
Project Code: 428
Project Code: 488
Bernice Houser, Rt. 1, Box 60, New Town, ND
Bob Gustafson, P.O. Box 1177, Grand Forks, ND
Jerome Exner, 921 13th Ave. N., Fargo, ND
58763; (701) 627-4247
58206-1177; (701) 772-7271
58102; (701) 235-3209
The Sanish History Association will organize a
The 84th Annual Meeting of the Grand Forks
The Freedom Interstate Resource Center for
reunion for all former students, teachers and
Chamber of Commerce held on 1/13/89 with a
Independent Living will hold a Centennial
residents of Sanish. Activities planned are a ban-
Centennial theme.
conference at the Fargo Holiday Inn on May
quet, dance and picnic.
23-26, 1989.
HEBRON CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
INTERNATIONAL GOOD NEIGHBOR
Project Code: 434
FLAG AND STYLE SHOW
Project Code: 372
Jack Hauser, Box 123, 623 Main St., Hebron,
Project Code: 492
Bruce Christenson, RR 1, Box 116, Dunseith,
ND 58638; (701) 878-4486
Margaret Lachenmeier, 202 1st St. E., Velva, ND
ND 58329; (701) 263-4390
The Hebron Centennial Committee plan a
58790; (701) 338-2200
The International Peace Garden will hold an
celebration on July 7, 8 and 9, 1989. It will in-
The Early Bird Homemakers Club will present
International Good Neighbor Day. A weekend full
clude a pageant, band concert, fireworks, street
a Centennial flag to be hung at Velva City Hall.
of festivals and family activities to celebrate
social and church services.
A presentation of vintage garments given at a
North Dakota's Centennial.
luncheon on 1/21/89.
MERRY PRAIRIE CHRISTMAS
AACA CENTRAL DIV. FALL MEET
Project Code: 440
MILNOR DINNER THEATRE
Project Code: 374
Becky Purdy, P.O. Box 2164, Fargo, ND 58107;
Project Code: 496
Reginald G. Urness, 3510 Belmont Road, Grand
(701) 237-6134
Norma Brekke, 424 1st St., Milnor, ND 58060;
Forks, ND 58201; (701) 772-4609
The Fargo-Moorhead Area Attractions Associa-
(701) 427-9335
The North Dakota Region of the Antique
tion will sponsor a community-wide celebration
The Milnor Centennial Committee will present
Automobile Club of America will hold the cen-
which will include sleigh rides, live reindeer and
a dinner with music and skits to be held on
tral division national fall meet.
visits from Santa.
February 18, 1989 at the Milnor School.
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ART IN THE PARK FESTIVAL
DAIRYING IN NORTH DAKOTA
BILLINGS CO. COURTHOUSE MUSEUM
Project Code: 504
Project Code: 213
Project Code: 153
Del Wetsch, 700 Johns Dr., Mandan, ND 58554;
Deborah Johnson, 4023 N. State Street,
Gary L. Satern, Box 364, Medora, ND 58645;
(701) 663-3262
Bismarck, ND 58501; (701) 224-3134
(701) 258-3307
The Art in the Park Festival will be held in con-
A video that features the history of the dairy
To designate as a Centennial project the now
junction with the Mandan Rodeo Days from
industry over the past 100 years. Filming begins
completed restoration of the Billings County
6/30/89 to 7/5/89. There will be arts and crafts
with milking by hand and progresses to
Courthouse as a museum.
booths, demonstrations and entertainers.
automatic milking.
ISSUES IN EDUCATION INSERVICE
INTERVIEWS AND ESSAYS/STUDENTS
MCHENRY COUNTY COURTHOUSE SITE
Project Code: 505
Project Code: 333
Project Code: 188
Joann M. Burt, 325 7th St., Devils Lake, ND
John Hrubesky, KTHI-TV, 1350 21st Ave. S.,
Theresa Haaland, P.O. Box 482, Velva, ND
58301; (701) 662-4006
Fargo, ND 58103; (701) 237-5211
58790; (701) 338-2312
The Devils Lake Teacher Center will conduct an
Students will interview elders and develop
A sign will be erected on the site of the original
all-day inservice on subjects such as math,
essays based on the interviews which they will
McHenry County Courthouse. The building,
science, language arts and how to bring ideas
submit to KTHI-TV. Selected essays will be
which was made of logs, was built in 1885.
for the Centennial into the classroom.
named "Essay of the Week."
POWERS LAKE MUSEUM
FILM, VIDEO & AUDIO
TV/11'S HISTORY IN NORTH DAKOTA
Project Code: 233
Project Code: 334
PEOPLES OF EARTHLODGE FILM
Donna Fredrickson, Box 186, Powers Lake, ND
John Hrubesky, KTHI-TV, 1350 21st Ave. S.,
Project Code: 20
58773; (701) 464-5630
Fargo, ND 58103; (701) 237-5211
Larry Loendorf, Box 8254, University Station,
Enhancement and promption of Powers Lake
Grand Forks, ND 58202; (701) 777-3008
A 30-minute video history of the KTHI-TV
museum and pioneer village. Site includes
station. Program will stress the station's on-
Film will portray the 1000 year history of the Man-
depot, school house, homestead shack and
going commitment to the viewing public and to
dan, Hidatsa and Arikara nations. Will primarily
parsonage.
the community.
feature earthlodge dwelling groups.
CELEBRATION 100
LEWIS & CLARK TRAIL PROJECT
THROUGH THE LENS
Project Code: 402
Project Code: 247
Project Code: 40
Ted Upgren, 100 N. Bismarck Expressway,
Thomas C. Rolfstad, Liberty Memorial Building,
State Historical Society, Heritage Center,
Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2666
Bismarck, ND 58501; (701) 221-6300
Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2810
One-hour video history of the major news events
Celebration 100 will be a four-projector multi-
North Dakota Lewis and Clark Trail Council will
and trends of North Dakota during the decade
media show about 19 minutes long which looks
develop several means by which to interpret for
of the 1950's - videotapes available at Heritage
at wildlife's place and its changing significance
the public 30 sites which it has identified along
Center.
over the past 100 years.
the Lewis and Clark Trail.
WINDBREAK, A FILM
MEDINA HERITAGE MUSEUM
Project Code: 41
Project Code: 135
John Hanson, 125 Richmond Avenue, Point
Arlyn Schmidt, Medina, ND 58467; (701)
Richmond, CA 94801; (415) 231-0225
486-3420
A feature length dramatic motion picture to be
To establish a heritage museum.
filmed in North Dakota and premiered as part
of the Centennial celebration.
POST OFFICE HISTORICAL MARKER
HISTORY OF PEMBINA
HISTORICAL MARKERS
Project Code: 291
Project Code: 415
R.F. "Pete" Matejcek, Box 65, Lankin, ND
& SITES
Candy Wood, Box 465, Pembina, ND 58271
58250; (701) 593-6291
The history of Pembina, first city in North Dakota,
ALMONT MUSEUM
A stone marker with a garden is to be con-
is a slide show and video history of Pembina
Project Code: 21
structed on the site of the original Lankin post
Sig Peterson, Almont, ND 58520; (701) 843-7032
office.
covering 1797 to 1950.
A cement block museum building begun in 1986
TAKE PRIDE IN OUR PRAIRIE
will house many artifacts, located in Almont
HISTORIC SIGN PLACEMENTS
Project Code: 199
Heritage Park with other buildings of historical
Project Code: 311
Bonnie Heidel, P.O. Box 1442, Bismarck, ND
significance.
Jay Weiher, Box 879, Devils Lake, ND 58301;
58502-1442; (701) 224-9870
(701) 662-7571
To promote an awareness of prairie as an
GLENBURN COMMUNITY MUSEUM
Signs marking historic sites will include: Federal
integral part of our landscape and well-being
Project Code: 44
Building, St. Mary's Academy, Sheriff's House,
now and in the past. Project will include inter-
Nancy Husted, Box 41, Glenburn, ND 58740;
Bangs-Wineman Block, Episcopal Church,
pretive programs and materials.
(701) 362-7351
Carnegie Library, Great Northern Hotel.
Focusing its attention on a community museum,
HISTORY OF RAY
Glenburn will seek to raise awareness of history
Project Code: 209
and to involve city youth.
HOUSE OF LABOR
Doris Langager, Box 501, Ray, ND 58849; (701)
Project Code: 339
568-2229
FORT DILTS STATE PARK
Dolores Kinslow, 424 10th Ave. S., Fargo, ND
Project Code: 113
58103; (701) 235-0890
A video history of Ray covering 1902 to the pre-
sent. The program, which focuses on local physi-
Gus Watson, Box 10, Rhame, ND 58651; (701)
The Henry Martinson Lake Cabin has been
cian Doc Scott, will utilize old photos, newspaper
279-5704
moved to Bonanzaville to house a museum of
accounts, and oral interviews.
To establish museum/information center at
labor.
Rhame, and refurnish the site of Fort Dilts.
CATCH THE CENTENNIAL SPIRIT
MONUMENT AND FLAG POLES
Project Code: 245
THE RAILROAD MUSEUM OF MINOT
Project Code: 491
Jim Fuglie, Liberty Memorial Bldg., Bismarck,
Project Code: 137
Grant Nelson, HCR 1, Box 7, Osnabrock, ND
ND 58505; (701) 224-2525
George J. Saltsman, 926 Third Street SE, Minot,
58269; (701) 496-3471
North Dakota radio stations will carry 60 sec.
ND 58701; (701) 839-5925
The American Legion Fismes Post #164 will
public service announcements as a build-up to the
Build a museum and miniature railroad in
place a monument and two flag poles at the
Centennial. The PSA's will use the "Spirit" theme.
Roosevelt Park, Minot.
Union Cemetery in Osnabrock, North Dakota.
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MUSIC
TEDDY ROOSEVELT SONG
FLICKERTAIL REFLECTIONS
Project Code: 131
Project Code: 322
THE CENTENNIAL TROUBADOUR
George J. Hastings, 209 Circle Hills Drive, Grand
Luther Enstad, 88 Elm Street, Wakefield, MA
Project Code: 509
Forks, ND 58201; (701) 772-6831
01880; (617) 245-0502
Chuck Suchy, Route 6, Box 69, Mandan, ND
58554; (701) 663-7682
A song about President Teddy Roosevelt.
Luther Enstad intends to present community
concerts, using material written by North
On November 2, 1988 the North Dakota Centen-
ND CENTENNIAL MARCH FOR BAND
Dakotans. Flickertail Reflections, songs of North
nial Commission named Chuck Suchy "The
Centennial Troubadour." Chuck will perform at
Project Code: 134
Dakota, will include biograhical sketches of
Stephen Kent Goodman, 11846 Balboa Blvd.,
writers.
major Centennial events. A cassette tape will be
available.
Suite 297; Granda Hills, CA 91344; (818)
360-4046
1988-89 GOVERNOR'S CHOIR
CENTENNIAL HIGH SCHOOL BAND
Project Code: 338
Original march for band.
Project Code: 1
Jon W. Loy, 801, 9th St. E., West Fargo, ND
John D. Warren, 905 8th Avenue NW, Mandan,
58078; (701) 282-3357
ND 58554; (701) 663-9532
PROTESTANT SACRED MUSIC REPORT
The 1988-89 Governor's Choir will perform state-
Project Code: 138
The best 200 North Dakota high school music
wide representing the Governor's office and pro-
Curtis Haiverson, 614 Broadway, Fargo, ND
moting the Centennial spirit.
students will come together to entertain during
58102; (701) 235-5077
the summer of 1989.
A report on Protestant sacred music in early
NORTH DAKOTA CENTENNIAL CHOIR
CENTENNIAL CONCERT BAND
North Dakota.
Project Code: 354
Project Code: 3
Edwin J. Kramer, 113 West Main, Ashley, ND
Dr. Merton Utgaard, Box 1, Bottineau, ND
"I LOVE AMERICA" AND ND SONGS
58413; (701) 288-3922
58318; (701) 228-2811
Project Code: 175
The Ashley Centennial Committee will host a
Selected adults and students will be organized
Lydia I. Hanson, 564 9th Ave. N., Carrington, ND
North Dakota Centennial concert in Ashley in
to tour the state giving "old fashioned band con-
58421; (701) 652-2336
1989. This will be done in conjunction with
certs;" uniforms will reflect the era.
dedication ceremonies for the Ashley Centen-
Singing club which performs patriotic and other
nia! park.
CENTENNIAL CHORAL FESTIVAL
music. They sing at homes for the elderly, chur-
Project Code: 11
ches, county celebrations, fairs, etc. Available
CENTENNIAL MUSICAL OPERETTA
Clarence Thompson, Box 293, Grand Forks, ND
for scheduling.
Project Code: 360
58206; (701) 775-5047
Stan Sandvik, P.O. Box 1468, Fargo, ND 58107;
Choral entertainment with repetoire of ethnic
"DAKOTA SOUND-SCAPES"
(701) 237-6022
songs - available for weekend performances.
Project Code: 182
The Neill C. Olson Memorial Foundation will
Tamar C. Read, 105 N. 39th St., Grand Forks,
"DAKOTA LAND" AN ANTHEM
sponsor musical operattas written by Neill C.
ND 58201; (701) 772-2161
Olson.
Project Code: 25
New Music, Inc., plans to present a concert that
Thomas Peterson, Box 8004, Grand Forks, ND
draws on North Dakota material for its content.
BIS-MAN CENTENNIAL CONCERT
58202; (701) 772-1341
A mixed ensemble will perform a piece with its
Project Code: 375
An anthem written for the people of North
text taken from the works of North Dakota
Dr. Gordon W. Knaak, P.O. Box 239, Bismarck,
Dakota. Sheet music available.
writers.
ND 58502; (701) 223-5628
"DAKOTA DREAM" A SONG
The Bismarck/Mandan Concerts Association
Project Code: 32
ND CENTENNIAL CHILDREN'S CHORUS
plans a symphony and choral performance
William E. Thoms, UND School of Law, Grand
Project Code: 217
featuring pianist Greg Nelson. Workshops will
Forks, ND 58202; (701) 777-2961
Glenys Wignes, 1457 S. 23rd St., Fargo, ND
also be conducted.
A lyrical western ballad and title song of a 1982
58103; (701) 235-5049
musical set in the depression days of the 1930's.
85 music students will help celebrate our state's
DEVILS LAKE ELKS BAND #1216
Musical scores available.
birthday by spending eight days traveling across
Project Code: 378
the state performing traditional songs and
James H. Beatty, P.O. Box 757, Devils Lake, ND
"WINTER SKIES," A SONG
dances in 12-15 North Dakota communities.
58301; (701) 662-4915
Project Code: 50
The Devils Lake Elks Band has been designated
Michael D. Koppelman, 3306 Chestnut Street,
COMMUNITY CONCERTS
the official band of the Elks National Conven-
Grand Forks, ND 58201; (701) 775-9754
Project Code: 242
tion in New Orieans in July 1989.
A popular ballad sung by Tanya Walsh. Sheet
Mike Defore, 6 Park Avenue, Velva, ND 58790;
music and cassettes available.
(701) 338-2022
ALONG THE TRAILS OF YESTERDAY
Project Code: 384
NORTH DAKOTA WALTZ
50-member band will perform a series of com-
William Garrett Lane, 4151 N. Sacramento IE,
Project Code: 78
munity concerts during the Centennial year. Per-
Chicago, IL 60618, (312) 478-8491
Orrin Martinson, Newport Apts. B-5, Ellendale,
formed will be music traditionally played for town
ND 58554; (701) 349-4149
concerts.
"Along the Trails of Yesterday/Ode to North
Dakota," a song celebrating North Dakota's
Musical composition with cassettes and sheet
Centennial.
music available.
WEST POINT GLEE CLUB PERFORMS
Project Code: 243
MY NORTH DAKOTA (A SONG)
THREE SONGS OF NORTH DAKOTA
Diane Albrecht, 1616 East Interstate Avenue,
Project Code: 94
Project Code: 385
Bismarck, ND 58501; (701) 258-8345
Carolyn N. Thompson, 739 N. 3rd St. #1, Fargo,
Tim and Larry Melby, 2401 S. Hacienda Heights
ND 58103; (701) 241-9402
U.S. Military Academy Cadet Glee Club (West
Blvd., Hacienda Heights, CA 91745; (818)
Point) to perform with the Bismarck-Mandan
369-6813
"My North Dakota" is a song sharing the
Symphony Orchestra in March of 1989.
boundless pride that Ms. Thompson feels for her
Tim and Larry Melby's songs of North Dakota,
state and its hard working people. Sheet music
"Farmin' Pains," "Go Home Boy" and "Dakota
ND CENTENNIAL MARCH BY LEON SORLIEN
available.
Winds," help celebrate the Centennial.
Project Code: 248
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TOUR
Richard Blair, Box 412, Fargo, ND 58107; (701)
THE PIONEER: A CENTENNIAL MARCH
Project Code: 132
232-6548
Project Code: 388
Nancy A. Swenson, P.O. Box 2031, Bismarck,
Fargo Central High School Alumni Association
Paul F. Hand, 511 Walnut, Grand Forks, ND
ND 58502; (701) 258-8345
will promote the performance of this Centennial
58201; (701) 772-5181
A composite orchestra from the major cities, to
song during the Centennial year. Sorlien
A composition for marching band to com-
tour in 1989.
founded the Fargo Central High School Band.
memorate North Dakota's Centennial.
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"NORTH DAKOTA CELEBRATE"
NORTH DAKOTA YOU'RE STILL MY HOME
EL ZAGAL SHRINE PLAINSMEN
Project Code: 389
Project Code: 474
Project Code: 502
Michael Warner, Rt. 3, Box 23, Hillsboro, ND
Gerald Denault, P.O. Box 1, Edinberg, ND
Robert E. Dorothy, 1006 Midway Dr., Bismarck,
58045
58227; (701) 993-9394
ND 58501; (701) 223-5067
A song about North Dakota that is light and fun
Gerald Denault has written a song entitled
The Plainsmen are a unit of the El Zagal Shrine
with a country flavor.
"North Dakota You're Still My Home" to help
Temple consisting of 30-35 singers and musi-
celebrate the Centennial.
cians performing songs that the pioneers sang.
WALTER KITTLER TOURING GROUP
Project Code: 414
ND IS THE PLACE FOR YOU AND ME
PATRIOTIC MEDLEY FOR NORTH DAKOTA
Walter E. Kittler, P.O. Box 491, Bismarck, ND
Project Code: 475
Project Code: 506
58502; (701) 223-9259
Duane Littlejohn, P.O. Box 235, St. Thomas, ND
Jewel Ann Nesvig, 910 8th St. S. #5, Moorhead,
This project will feature a big dance band play-
58276; (701) 257-6581
MN 56560; (218) 236-8178
ing concerts and having dances and will present
Duane Littlejohn has composed and recorded
Jewel Ann Nesvig is a soloist and has prepared
all types of popular music from 100 years ago
a North Dakota Centennial song entitled "North
a presentation of many patriotic songs to be per-
to the present.
Dakota Is the Place For You and Me." 45
formed throughout the state during the Centen-
records and sheet music available.
nial year. She is available for booking.
NORTH DAKOTA HYMN
Project Code: 432
CENTENNIAL MUSICIANS
"SING OF NORTH DAKOTA" (SONG)
Merton Utgaard, P.O. Box 1, Bottineau, ND
Project Code: 477
Project Code: 507
58318; (701) 228-2811
June and Wally Erfert, P.O. Box 112, Plaza, ND
Grant Nelson, HCR 1, Box 7, Osnabrock, ND
58771; (701) 497-3796
58269; (701) 496-3471
The International Ambassadors of Music will
reproduce and distribute the North Dakota hymn
June and Wally Erfert will be available for
The song, "Sing of North Dakota," can be
to all junior high, high school, college, univer-
scheduling during the Centennial year. June
used as a choral number, played by an orchestra
sity and community bands in North Dakota.
plays the piano, organ, autoharp and Wally plays
or band, or sung solo. Sheet music and casset-
string bass.
tes will be available.
NORTH DAKOTA LAND OF THE FREE
Project Code: 443
FARGO NORTH ORCHESTRA
Carolyn Van Wyk, HCR-03, Box 300, Hettinger,
Project Code: 481
PARKS & TRAILS
ND 58639; (605) 564-2164
Daniel J. Italiano, 801 17th Ave. N., Fargo, ND
PIONEER CULTURE CENTER
58107; (701) 241-4778
A song to commemorate the pioneer Centennial
Project Code: 51
square for the Hettinger dedication on July 4,
Fargo North High School Orchestra is a group
North Eastern ND Heritage Asso., RR 1, Box
1989.
of 48 string players and 22 wind/percussion
151, Edinburg, ND 58227; (701) 993-8432
players for a total membership of 70.
Build an interpretive center/visitor center adja-
ND CENTENNIAL FREEDOM WAGON
Project Code: 448
SING NORTH DAKOTA
cent to the Icelandic State Park. A 200 acre
Trish Lenihan, Box 2401, Bismarck, ND 58502;
Project Code: 482
homestead has been donated.
(701) 222-8870
Leroy Zimmerman, 2612 Mercury Lane,
KENMARE CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL PARK
Bismarck, ND 58501; (701) 258-5746
The Circle "C" Ranch will sponsor a freedom
Project Code: 59
wagon available for performances. Will ride in
The Barbershop Harmony Chapters of North
Gil Raucshenberger, Box 666, Kenmare, ND
parades and conduct patriotic and sing-a-long
Dakota will come together and do a free perfor-
58746; (701) 385-4457
concerts.
mance on the steps of the State Capitol on
Constructing a park featuring a water pool,
6/17/89.
lighted foundation flag pools, military service
A TRIBUTE TO NORTH DAKOTA
McCABE CENTENNIAL CHOIR
memorial will serve to welcome guests to
Project Code: 452
Kenmare.
Stephanie J. Fisher, Box 446, Larimore, ND
Project Code: 487
58251-0446
Nancy G. Bjella, 1124 N. 4th St., Bismarck, ND
CROSS RANCH BUFFALO HERD
58501; (701) 224-2332
Stephanie Fisher will be available to perform dur-
Project Code: 69
ing the Centennial year a program with a
This group, in 1889 apparel, will present a pro-
Bob Hamilton, Hensler, ND
patriotic theme to instill pride in being American
gram of late 19th century hymns. The 50-minute
Establish and maintain a buffalo herd on the
and North Dakotans.
program will be available for scheduling during
ranch. Herd was released into a fenced pasture
the Centennial year.
in late November 1986.
MUSICAL MEMORIES BY SUNRISE
Project Code: 457
BOTTINEAU COUNTY MENS CHORUS
CROSS RANCH STATE PARK
Gwyn Herman and Laverne Johnson, 1119
Project Code: 490
Project Code: 88
University Drive #1704, Bismarck, ND 58504;
Gordon Lindquist, 409 Brander St., Bottineau,
Donna Schouweiler, 1424 W. Century Avenue,
(701) 222-3260
ND 58318; (701) 228-2822
Bismarck, ND 58501; (701) 224-4887
A 30-minute program will include North Dakota
The Bottineau County Mens Centennial Chorus
Cross Ranch State Park will be a 575 acre park
songs and ethnic songs. The singing is accom-
will present concerts throughout the county and
SW of Washburn in Oliver County. Will provide
panied by guitar, bass and side-man drum. Brief
state in 1989. The chorus is under the direction
camping, picnicing, fishing, cross country ski-
narrative comments between songs.
of Gordon Lindquist.
ing, etc.
HERITAGE SINGERS CONCERT
CANTATA: I LOVE AMERICA
NATIONAL SCENIC TRAIL
Project Code: 459
Project Code: 497
Project Code: 101
Dr. Joseph M. Hegstad, 1805 2nd Ave. SW
Norma Brekke, 424 1st St., Milnor, ND 58060;
William A. Fortune, P.O. Box 946, Lisbon, ND
#211, Minot, ND 58701; (701) 857-3187
(701) 427-9335
58054; (701) 683-4342
The Heritage Singers Male Chorus have a
The Milnor Centennial Committee will sponsor
25 miles of the 435 miles North Dakota portion
presentation which includes a historical pageant
a cantata entitled "I Love America" to be held
of this national scenic trail crosses national
which traces the development of the U.S. flag
in November of 1989, featuring about 60 voices.
grassland in SE North Dakota.
to the present and patriotic music.
"DAKOTA, I'VE NOT FORGOTTEN"
TR PARK NORTH UNIT CENTER
GRIGGS COUNTY COMMUNITY BAND
Project Code: 501
Project Code: 104
Project Code: 469
Randi Perkins, 8727 E. Girard Ave., Denver, CO
Kent M. Morrow, P.O. Box 694, Watford City, ND
Bob Hedstrom, RR 2, Box 116, Cooperstown,
80231; 889-5928
58854; (701) 842-2619
ND 58425; (701) 797-3176
The song, "Dakota I've Not Forgotten," will be
Planning/raising funds for permanent visitors
The Griggs County Community Band will play
distributed on records and tapes in North
interpretive center and park service district head-
in their local and surrounding area for the
Dakota. Randi Perkins will be available for
quarter facility north unit of Theodore Roosevelt
Centennial.
performances throughout the Centennial year.
National Park.
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CASSELTON GOVERNOR'S PARK
SENIOR CENTER BEAUTIFICATION
PRESERVATION
Project Code: 116
Project Code: 314
Brad Burgum, Casselton, ND 58012; (701)
Stanley M. Swenson, P.O. Box 713, Devils Lake,
NELSON COUNTY LOG CABIN
347-4652
ND 58301-0713; (701) 662-5061
Project Code: 64
Casselton's downtown railroad park will be ren-
The Devils Lake Senior Center Centennial Pro-
Maryadele Knudson, McVille, ND 58254; (701)
novated as Governor's Park. Park themes will
ject will beautify the area surrounding the center
322-4384
honor four former Casselton citizens who
and will make the east side of the building handi-
Weatherize one of the first log cabins in Nelson
became North Dakota governors.
cap accessible.
County on Nelson County courthouse grounds
— cabin 106 years old.
ROAD AND BIKE PATH, HUNTER
RAMSEY CO. LANDSCAPING PROJECT
Project Code: 129
Project Code: 316
ND NEWSPAPER MICROFILMING
Randy Moen, P.O. Box 142, Hunter, ND 58048;
(701) 874-2161
Byrdia Spidahl, Ramsey County Courthouse,
Project Code: 108
Devils Lake, ND 58301; (701) 662-7007
Gerald G. Newborg, North Dakota Heritage
Will accomplish blacktopping for a road and bike
Center, Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2668
path leading to city park in Hunter, improving
Ramsey County will make landscaping imprints
park access and solving dust and traffic
and install a flower sculpture on the front lawn
Seek to preserve on microfilm all significant
of the courthouse.
North Dakota newspapers not yet on microfilm,
problems.
for research at Heritage Center and on loan or
purchase.
TURTLE LAKE CENTENNIAL BOOK
LITTLE EGYPT CENTENNIAL PARK
Project Code: 275
Project Code: 324
SMALL TOWN NEWSPAPER
Darwin Saari, Box 338, Turtle Lake, ND 58575;
Marlene Eide, P.O. Box 2047, Williston, ND
Project Code: 196
(701) 448-2596
58801; (701) 572-6373
Patricia S. Danda, Box 1889, Michigan City, ND
Development of a 1½ acre Centennial Park in
The Williams County Park Board will develop the
58259; (701) 259-2112
Turtle Lake. The park will include an arboretum,
Little Egypt beach area which will include: an
To restore the railroad depot built in 1883 and
benches and a small bridge.
access road, a boat ramp, tree planting and an
move it to its original site on the main street of
interpretive history display.
WALHALLA RIVERSIDE PARK
Michigan. Presses and other printing equipment
Project Code: 146
will be displayed in the building.
PIONEER CENTENNIAL SQUARE
Kathy Stremick, Box 318, Walhalla, ND 58282;
Project Code: 380
MICROFILMING COUNTY NEWSPAPERS
(701) 549-2707
Bob Owens, RR 2, Box 126, Hettinger, ND
Project Code: 212
Rehabilitate and add to Riverside Park, with a
58639; (701) 567-2401
Orville Nelson, RR 2, Box 139, Forman, ND
park entrance walk and bike paths - an outdoor
amphitheater will also be part of the project as
The Hettinger Centennial Committee will
58032; (701) 724-6241
well as tree replacement.
establish a Pioneer Memorial Centennial Square
Copies of all microfilmed newspapers from
to beautify downtown Hettinger. Includes
Sargent County will be purchased. A microfilm
ST. THOMAS CENTENNIAL PARK
restrooms, trees and other plants.
reader will also be purchased for use by the
Project Code: 295
public at the Sargent County Museum.
Duane Littlejohn, Alderman, Box 177, St.
CENTENNIAL FLOWER GARDENS
Thomas, ND 58276; (701) 257-6475
Project Code: 341
PRAIRIE DAYS AND YESTERDAYS
Project Code: 223
A brick surfaced area with a round stone
Evan F. Heustis, P.O. Box 608, Devils Lake, ND
planter/foundation in the center. A plaque will
58301; (701) 662-2121
Cathy Mason, RR 5, 1401 Calgary Ave.,
Bismarck, ND 58501; (701) 223-4525
be attached to a native boulder and placed on
Extensive flower beds and flowering bushes will
the brick surface.
be planted in the historic Chautauqua assembly
Sakakawea Girl Scout Council will hold a Girl
grounds of Lakewood Park in Devils Lake.
Scout wider opportunity for cadette and senior
LITTLE MUDDY RECREATION AREA
Girl Scouts from North Dakota, South Dakota
Project Code: 296
and Canada. Will have Centennial theme.
Don Larson, P.O. Box 2163, Williston, ND
LIONS CENTENNIAL PROJECT
58801; (701) 572-6114
Project Code: 433
ND CENTENNIAL TREASURE HUNT
Allen Peightal, P.O. Box, Bismarck, ND 58502;
Improvements of the Little Muddy Recreation
Project Code: 261
(701) 663-8919
Area include: new highway access, tree plant-
Gerald Newborg, North Dakota Heritage Center,
ing, boat ramp, fish cleaning station, camping
The Bismarck Lions will make a part of Lions
Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2668
and picnic areas, playground and skating rink.
Hillside Park a scenic outlook. Native flowers,
State-wide campaign to promote awareness of
grass and shrubs will be planted and paved
the types of historical materials of general in-
DODGE PARK PROJECT
walkways and benches are planned.
terest in people's attics, etc., and to solicit those
Project Code: 302
items for the State Historical Society.
Ginnette Ehli, RR, Box 26A, Dodge, ND 58625;
CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL PARK
(701) 846-7370
Project Code: 350
REGIONAL CENTENNIAL WORKSHOPS
An empty lot adjacent to tennis court and
Harris Omdahl, Conway, ND 58233
Project Code: 393
playground equipment will be improved.
The Conway Centennial Committee plans to
Marcia Britton Wolter, North Dakota Heritage
Bathroom facilities will be built as well as picnic
establish a Memorial Park.
Center, Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2799
tables and flowers will be planted.
"Collecting the Community: Regional Centen-
DEVILS LAKE PUBLIC PARK
CENTENNIAL MINI-PARK
nial Workshops for Teachers" is a joint project
Project Code: 367
of the State Historical Society of North Dakota
Project Code: 309
Phyllis Kennelly, P.O. Box 257, St. Thomas, ND
and UND. It encourages teachers to celebrate
Dave Magnuson, P.O. Box 456, Devils Lake, ND
58301; (701) 662-5929
58276; (701) 257-6899
the Centennial.
A public park located on the East Bay of Devils
St. Thomas Centennial Committee will establish
Lake will include: public access ramp and dock,
a North Dakota Centennial Mini-Park for its
playground equipment, beach area, parking and
observance of the Centennial.
PUBLICATIONS
picnic area and bathrooms.
MISTY CENTENNIAL SQUARE
HANDICAPPED ACCESS SURVEY
DEVILS LAKE BEAUTIFICATION
Project Code: 373
Project Code: 13
Project Code: 312
Jessie L. Quinn, P.O. Box 507, Riverdale, ND
Marie Brown, 1007 NW 18th, Mandan, ND
Jonielle Soderstrom, 419 4th Ave., Devils Lake,
58565; (701) 654-7636
58554; (701) 258-1068
ND 58301; (701) 662-5601
Riverdale Centennial Committee project, Misty
On-site inspection of facilities will be made by
Flower planters and benches will be placed on the
Centennial Square, includes beautification of the
disabled persons. Pamphlet available - data to
streets of Devils Lake to make their community
Riverdale downtown mall area. Includes mer-
be recorded in North Dakota visitor's planning
iook more inviting to shoppers and tourists.
maid statue and rock garden.
guide.
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BOOK OF DOLL STORIES
ND COSMETOLOGIST CENTENNIAL
A CENTENNIAL ATLAS OF NORTH DAKOTA
Project Code: 19
Project Code: 71
Project Code: 126
Pearl Steinkuehler, 5002 6th Ave. N., Grand
Laura George, 103 Tuttle Avenue, Mandan, ND
Dr. William A. Dando, Box 8274, Grand Forks,
Forks, ND 58201; (701) 746-1015
58554; (701) 773-7090
ND 58202; (701) 777-4246
Book will feature photos and stories to com-
Writing/publishing a book on the history of North
Geography department of UND will produce an
memorate a collection of doll stories. Dolls
Dakota cosmetology.
up-to-date, color atlas of North Dakota for the
housed in Rugby Museum.
Centennial.
ND QUILT (INVENTORY) PROJECT
MEMORIES OF ND HOMEMAKERS
Project Code: 74
CENTENNIAL FIELD GUIDE ND NAT. AREA
Project Code: 28
Kim R.L. Baird, P.O. Box 2662, Fargo, ND
Project Code: 186
Judy Dewitz, Rt. 1, Box 82, Tappen, ND 58487;
58108; (701) 293-7395
Dennis Disrud, Science Dept., Minot State Univ.,
(701) 327-8310
Will catalog, document and photograph old quilts
Minot, ND 58701; (701) 857-3160
Record on cassette tape interviews with early
in North Dakota and one or more exhibits, and
Field guide to natural areas will be published as
North Dakota homemakers; will document
an index book.
a special issue of "ND Outdoors." Will provide
changing role of homemaking since turn of the
information on natural areas with public access.
century. Materials available for research -
CENTENNIAL COUNTRY COOKBOOK
publishing a book.
Project Code: 80
James G. Kappel, P.O. Box 2871, Fargo, ND
SURVEYING/MARKING ND/SD BOUND.
58108; (701) 232-2452
Project Code: 200
ND PERIODICALS INDEXING
Dr. Gordon L. Iseminger, Box 8096 UND History
Project Code: 29
Cookbook with country recipes from ND's finest
Dept., Grand Forks, ND 58202; (701) 777-3681
Michael M. Miller, NSDU Library, Fargo, ND
cooks: game recipes, tips for beginners, and
58105; (701) 237-8914
traditional home-style cooking.
"The Quartzite Border: Surveying and Marking
the ND/SD Boundary, 1891-1892" is a book
An index to North Dakota periodicals. A finding
PROJECT WILD ND COLORING BOOK
about the monuments marking the border bet-
aid for articles about North Dakota. Done by
librarians throughout the state.
Project Code: 82
ween North and South Dakota.
Terry A. Messmer, Stevens Hall, NDSU, Fargo,
ND 58105; (701) 237-7950
ST. ALPHONSUS SCHOOL COOKBOOK
PLAINSWOMAN ANTHOLOGY
Project Code: 42
To distribute 10,000 copies of coloring books on
Project Code: 493
North Dakota wildlife. Cost per book $1.50. Pro-
Roger Gendreau, 209 10th Ave., Langdon, ND
Elizabeth Hampsten, Box 8027, Grand Forks,
ceeds will be used to develop a "Wild Facts"
58249; (701) 256-2354
ND 58202; (701) 772-4714
reference book on North Dakota.
St. Alphonsus students will compile recipes from
To publish a 72 page anthology of articles from
their grandmothers and great grandmothers to
past five years about women in North Dakota.
FAMILY FAVORITES (RECIPES)
celebrate the heritage of their area through a
Available to teachers/libraries.
Project Code: 97
cookbook.
Dr. Harriett K. Light, Box 5819, University Sta-
PHONE DIRECTORY
tion, Fargo, ND 58105; (701) 237-7099
"EASTSIDE ECHOES"
Project Code: 49
Alan Austad, Box 828, Mandan, ND 58554; (701)
"ND Family Favorites" is a collection of recipes
Project Code: 203
contributed by families taking part in a program
Evelyn M. Lenton, Rt. 1, Box 36, Norwich, ND
663-1099
addressing problem of tension resulting from
58768; (701) 728-6586
Imprinted with Centennial logo, the independent
depressed ag. and energy economy.
"Eastside Echoes" is a history of a two-room
telephone co-ops will feature listings of major
country school in Surrey Township in eastern
Centennial events inside phone directories.
ND HISTORY, SPECIAL ISSUE
Ward County. The school, which began in 1913,
Project Code: 109
closed in 1934.
PRAIRIE COLLECTION COOKBOOK
Virginia Heidenreich, North Dakota Heritage
Project Code: 53
Center, Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2799
HISTORY OF BLACKS IN NORTH DAKOTA
Helga Gonzalez, Barbara Larson, Box 70,
Centennial issue of North Dakota history will con-
Project Code: 210
Bismarck, ND 58502; (701) 223-3005
sist of essays by North Dakota scholars regard-
Thomas Newgard, 1404 North 13th St.,
A collection of 400 recipes some of which are
ing future of state.
Moorhead, MN 56560; (218) 236-8056
ethnic, has been published as a fundraiser by
This manuscript is an exhaustive study of blacks
the Bis-Man Symphony League.
AG CLASSROOM COMPUTER SOFTWARE
in rural North Dakota. The 600-page manuscript
Project Code: 123
is co-authored by Thomas Newgard and William
BURKE COUNTY BOOK
Judi Adams, 4023 N. State Street, Bismarck, ND
Sherman.
Project Code: 54
58501; (701) 224-2498
Hazel Herman, Burke Co. Box 340, Bowbells,
North Dakota Wheat Commission has commis-
"HERITAGE '89''
ND 58721; (701) 377-2917
sioned Komstock, Inc., to program software
Project Code: 224
Updating the 1971 Burke County Historical
designed to teach students about role of wheat
Rosemarie Myrdal, RR 1, Box 151, Edinburg, ND
in state history. Challenges students to seek
58227; (701) 993-8432
Book, this book will add the history of the last
15 years and allow for others excluded in first
information.
Pembina County Historical Society will publish
edition.
"Heritage '89: A History of Pembina County
DAKOTA BREAD
Townships." The book will include essays and
Project Code: 124
RETIRED TEACHERS BOOK
historical photographs.
Judi Adams, 4023 N. State Street, Bismarck, ND
Project Code: 61
58501; (701) 224-2498
Selma Moore, 3624 37th NW, Mandan, ND
FESSENDEN SCHOOL DIRECTORY
58554; (701) 663-8901
Wheat Commission of North Dakota, South
Project Code: 241
Publish a book about the experiences of retired
Dakota have developed a new bread called
Marion Eldredge, Box 205, Fessenden, ND
teachers.
"Dakota Bread." Recipe will be circulated
58438; (701) 547-3575
through TV, news releases, posters and etc.
Directory of Fessenden High School graduates
will be compiled and published. First class
GUIDE TO FOLKLIFE RESOURCES
FEATHERS FROM THE PRAIRIE
graduated in 1909.
Project Code: 63
Project Code: 169
Donna Evenson, Black Building, Suite 606,
Ted Upgren, 100 N. Bismarck Expressway,
NORTH DAKOTA WILDFLOWERS
Fargo, ND 58102; (701) 237-8962
Bismarck, ND 58501; (701) 221-6300
Project Code: 244
Publish a directory of North Dakota traditional
"Feathers From the Prairie," first published in
Dr. Paul Kannowski, Dept. of Biology, UND,
arts and folklife resources existing in Historical
1964, deals with the history and status of the
Grand Forks, ND 58202; (701) 777-2621
Society collections, museums, libraries, colleges
state's upland game species. Update by the
A color illustrated book about North Dakota
and universities - free of charge.
original author Morris "Moe" Johnson.
wildflowers will be published.
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ND: IN GRATEFUL HOMAGE
ND: LAND OF CHANGING SEASONS
McKENZIE COUNTY COOKBOOK
Project Code: 246
Project Code: 330
Project Code: 370
Pauline Diede, 123 Maple, Box 108, Hebron, ND
Francie M. Berg, Rt. 2, Box 612, Hettinger, ND
Ann M. Slavick, P.O. Box 525, Watford City, ND
58638; (701) 878-4486
58639; (701) 567-2646
58854; (701) 842-3616
A collection of essays, poems, recipes, inter-
Francie B. Berg and family wish to update the
The McKenzie County Extension Homemakers
views, etc. relating to North Dakota. Profits from
book "North Dakota: Land of Changing
have compiled a cookbook for the Centennial.
the publication go to supporting projects of the
Seasons" for the Centennial.
Recipes were submitted from each of the
Hebron Historical and Arts Society.
Homemakers of McKenzie County.
GRAND FORKS CENTRAL 1949 CLASS
LYDIA O. JACKSON POETRY
Project Code: 331
NEWSPAPER IN EDUCATION
Project Code: 259
Donald A. Schlaefer, 6028 Leslee Lane, Edina,
Project Code: 376
Elizabeth Fagerholt, Route 1, Box 95, Hoople,
MN 55436; (612) 938-0418
Becky Karnes, Box 2020, Fargo, ND 58107;
ND 58243; (701) 894-6148
Prepare and distribute newsletter to Grand Forks
(701) 235-7311
Book of poetry by Lydia O. Jackson, North
Central class of 1949. Organize and sponsor
The Fargo Forum will develop an educational
Dakota poet laureate 1975-1984. The volume is
Caribbean cruise in February 1989 and class
supplement on North Dakota history and the
entitled "A Trilogy Trimmed in Lace." Includes
reunion in summer of 1989.
Centennial.
some poems which have never been published
before.
ROOSEVELT'S NORTH DAKOTA SPEECHES
WORKERS COMP. BUREAU BOOKLET
Project Code: 335
Project Code: 377
BOOKSHELF PROJECT
Project Code: 263
Harold Schafer, P.O. Box 198, Medora, ND
Sharon Schmitke, 4007 N. State St., Bismarck,
58645; (701) 623-4444
ND 58501; (701) 224-2700
Marcia Britton Wolter, North Dakota Heritage
Center, Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2799
A book will be published reprinting the speeches
The Workers Compensation Bureau will publish
Theodore Roosevelt gave in North Dakota. It will
a Centennial edition of an informational booklet
Reprinting of three classic, out-of-print books
about North Dakota and North Dakota history -
include photos and will be distributed to libraries
which will contain a history of the Bureau.
ND: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State; Lewis
and schools.
OF TIME AND THE PRAIRIE
and Clark in North Dakota; Early Peoples of
Project Code: 401
North Dakota.
MITAKUYE OYASIN (BOOK)
Ted Upgren, 100 N. Bismarck Expressway,
Project Code: 340
Allen Ross, Box 181, Ft. Yates, ND 58538; (701)
Bismarck, ND 58501; (701) 221-6300
"A TOUCH OF DAKOTA"
Project Code: 281
854-3498
"Of Time and the Prairie - One Hundred Years
Mark Markert, Box 862, Garrison, ND 58540;
of People and Wildlife in North Dakota: Obser-
Mitakuye Oyasin, "We Are All Related," is a
(701) 463-2580
book resulting from research and oral histories.
vations in Change." An analytical view of the
land and land users.
Book of poetry pertaining to North Dakota and
its state's Centennial.
CENTENNIAL NORTH DAKOTA QUARTERLY
STREETER PAST AND PRESENT
Project Code: 348
VOSSLER BOOK PROJECT
Project Code: 413
Bob Lewis, Box 8237, University Station, Grand
Project Code: 282
Anne C. Nyren, Box 19, Streeter, ND 58483;
Forks, ND 58202; (701) 777-3321
Rodney Nelson, Box 3247, Fargo, ND 58108;
(701) 424-3606
(701) 232-5570
The fall 1988 issue of North Dakota Quarterly
The Streeter Centennial Committee will have a
will be a special edition devoted to com-
To publish a book of short stories entitled,
community celebration with a history of
memorating the Centennial of North Dakota.
"Horse, I Am Your Mother" by author Ron
Streeter's early days compiled by the high
school senior English class at Streeter School.
Vossler.
WARD COUNTY CO-OP DIRECTORY
Project Code: 351
PRAIRIE PEOPLE CENTENNIAL PROJECT
PRAIRIE TALES, VOLUME 2
Robert M. Horne, Rt. 5, Box 4, Minot, ND 58701;
Project Code: 293
Project Code: 438
Les Snavely, 903 W. Dover St., Bowman, ND
(701) 852-0406
Douglas C. Munski, Box 8274, University Sta-
The Ward County Co-op Association has plans
tion, Grand Forks, ND 58202; (701) 777-4246
58623; (701) 523-3105
to assemble a directory of the 28 cooperatives
North Dakota Council on the Social Sciences will
The Bowman County Historical Society will
in the county.
publish a history book entitled, "Prairie Tales,
sponsor a Dakota Centennial edition of Prairie
Volume 2."
People magazine.
CENTENNIAL READING CLUB
DODGE HISTORY BOOK
Project Code: 363
THE GOLDEN OUNCE
Project Code: 298
Dr. Glenn Melvey, 1104 Second Ave. S., Fargo,
Project Code: 446
Ginnette Ehli, RR, Box 26A, Dodge, ND 58625;
ND 58103; (701) 241-4872
Stephen L. McDonough, P.O. Box 1744,
(701) 846-7370
Fargo Public Schools will promote the future
Bismarck, ND 58502-1744; (701)224-2493
The Dodge Diamond Jubilee history book will
literacy of North Dakota young people by spon-
The North Dakota Public Health Assocition will
include: histories of past residents of Dodge, list
soring a year-long project of reading.
sponsor a book entitled "The Golden Ounce: A
of all graduates, pictures of people and town.
History of Public Health in North Dakota."
THE ND COUNTRY SCHOOLS LEGACY
THREE PIONEER DAYS BOOKS
Project Code: 364
PIONEER OF MINOT
Project Code: 305
Everett C. Albers, P.O. Box 2191, Bismarck, ND
Project Code: 447
Mrs. Mabel Jahnel Benson, 2555 N. Hamline
58502-2191; (701) 663-1948
Pamela A. Olson, 700 S. Main St., Minot, ND
Ave. Apt. 209, Roseville, MN 55113; 223-4694
The North Dakota Humanities Council will
58701; (701) 839-2611
The three books are: "Home of the Brave,"
research, write and publish a book about the
Pamela A. Olson will write a research paper
"Sparks for the Fire" and "Daughter of the
heritage of county schools in North Dakota which
entitled "Pioneer of Minot: Judge K.E.
Pioneers."
includes 200 photos, analytic essays and
Leighton."
reminiscences.
A CENTURY OF HOME COOKING
FOLK MEDICINE ON THE PRAIRIE
Project Code: 329
LITERARY AND ND INDIAN HERITAGE
Project Code: 449
Ragnhild Wolff, c/o Ragna Wolff, RR, Haynes,
Project Code: 366
Angeline Bushy, 512 N. 7th St., Bismarck, ND
ND 58637; (701) 564-2386
Everett C. Albers, P.O. Box 2191, Bismarck, ND
58501; (701) 224-6283
The Adams County Homemakers Council are
58502-2191; (701) 663-1948
Medcenter One College of Nursing will sponsor
producing a community cookbook entitled "A
The North Dakota Humanities Council will
a pamphlet incorporating folk remedies with
Century of Cooking: With a North Dakota
publish books about the literary heritage of North
narrative relating to health care on the
Flavor."
Dakota and the North Dakota Indian heritage.
prairie.
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YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN
PIONEER RURAL ROYALTY CONTEST
CENTENNIAL HOMES PROJECT
Project Code: 462
Project Code: 66
Project Code: 307
Eunice Kost, 1310 Ivy Drive, Washburn, ND
Paul E. Trauger, P.O. Box 368, Mandan, ND
Robin Trudell, 123 West Main, Sidney, MT
58577; (701) 462-3720
58554; (701) 667-3300
59270
Plans are to locate as many threshing machine
Conduct a pioneer royalty contest in each city
The Richland County Extension Homemakers
separators as possible and compile their history.
in Morton County, have overall winners chosen
of Montana wish to recognize homes in the area
from city winners.
of Richland County, MT, and McKenzie County,
OXBOW NEWSLETTER CENTENNIAL ISSUE
ND, that were built before 1920.
Project Code: 464
CENTENNIAL HIGHWAY
Dennis Nelson, 900 E. Boulevard, Bismarck, ND
Project Code: 136
BASKETBALL ACHIEVEMENT SIGN
58505; (701) 224-4989
Stan Wright/Blake A. Krabseth, P.O. Box 940,
Project Code: 319
The North Dakota State Water Commission will
Minot, ND 58702; (701) 628-2236
Arlene Hoffner, Rt. 1, Box 61, Esmond, ND
dedicate an issue of their newsletter to the
Recognize U.S. Highway 2 as Centennial
58332
Centennial. Articles to include a variety of water
Highway.
The Esmond Evergreen City Centennial Com-
history topics.
mittee plans to erect a sign honoring the 1987
ND CENTENNIAL FARM AWARD PROGRAM
Esmond girls state basketball champions.
ETHNIC HERITAGE IN NORTH DAKOTA
Project Code: 91
Project Code: 473
Kay Quanbeck, Dept. of Ag., 6th Floor, State
BEEF: A CENTENNIAL MEAT
Michael P. Saba, 1819 S. Neil, Ste. B, Cham-
Capitol Bldg., Bismarck, ND 58505; (701)
Project Code: 332
paign, IL 61820; (217) 352-1661
224-2233
Jerry Doan, Rt. 1, Box 126, McKenzie, ND
The Atteyeh Foundation will add a Centennial
Families maintaining ownership of a farm for
58553; (701) 673-3441
logo to their book "Ethnic Heritage in North
over 100 years are recognized with a certifica-
The North Dakota Beef Commission, Cat-
Dakota" to make it a Centennial project.
tion and sign.
tlewomen and Stockmans Associations wish to
designate beef as a Centennial meat.
A TASTE OF MEDORA COOKBOOK
CERTIFIED VOLUNTEER UNIT
Project Code: 479
Marilyn T. Sahlstrom, P.O. Box 167, Medora, ND
Project Code: 99
ROOSEVELT ESSAY CONTEST
Judy Dewitz, Rt. 1, Box 82, Tappen, ND 58487;
Project Code: 337
58645; (701) 623-4466
(701) 327-8310
Harold Schafer, P.O. Box 198, Medora, ND
The Theodore Roosevelt Nature and History
To encourage volunteerism in Homemaker's
58645; (701) 623-4444
Assocition is promoting a cookbook entitled "A
Taste of Medora."
organizations of North Dakota and to document
The annual essay contest for school-aged
activities.
children requesting compositions related to
WEST RIVER: POEMS
Theodore Roosevelt's life and philosophy.
Project Code: 480
COMMUNITY PRIDE/CENTENNIAL CITIES
David R. Solheim, Box 173 - DSU, Dickinson,
Project Code: 72
YARD OF THE WEEK
ND 58601; (701) 227-2125
Shirley R. Dykshoorn, 14th Floor, State Capitol,
Project Code: 342
Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2094
Gail Bergstad, Velva, ND 58790; (701) 338-2011
Publication, promotion and sales of book of
poetry entitled "West River" written by published
Centennial designation for cities taking initiative
The Velva Assocition of Commerce hosts a
poet and North Dakota native David R. Solheim.
to start projects which contribute to community
weekly contest for yards based on neatness and
"Centennial Bookshelf" publication.
betterment.
general appearance to promote community
pride.
ND FIRE FIGHTERS HALL OF FAME
Project Code: 178
GRIGGS COUNTY SETTLERS
Vince Lindstrom, P.O. Box 2164, Fargo, ND
Project Code: 361
58107; (701) 237-6134
Jan Steffen, RR 2, Box 13, Cooperstown, ND
Working through the North Dakota Fire Fighters
58425; (701) 797-2528
Association, names are being selected for the
The Griggs County Geneology Group will col-
Hall of Fame. Fargo will host the Centennial Fire
lect data of Griggs County people and record
Fighters State Convention in June, 1989.
who was present in Griggs County in 1879-1904.
CENTENNIAL BIRD
LEGACY OF 15TH AIR FORCE NCO
RECOGNITION
Project Code: 198
Project Code: 395
NORTH DAKOTA HALL OF FAME
Randy Hill, c/o 821 Ave. A West, Bismarck, ND
Edward J. Montoya, 211 8th St. NW, Apt. 1A,
Project Code: 2
58501; (701) 223-0435
Minot, ND 58701; (701) 723-3494
Jim Kennedy, P.O. Box 796, Bismarck, ND
Designates the American White Pelican as the
A U.S. flag will be flown at Rosehill Memorial
58502; (701) 255-2345
official Centennial bird for North Dakota. North
Cemetery on every Memorial Day for the next
To honor North Dakota citizens past and pre-
Dakota has the largest breeding colony of
100 years. This legacy is from the 15th Air Force
sent, famous and ordinary for the outstanding
American White Pelicans in the United States.
NCO Leadership School, class of 88.
qualities they contribute to the state.
NDBPW BIOGRAPHIES
GOLD LABEL DRIVERWAY SIGN
SONS & DAUGHTERS OF PIONEERS
Project Code: 272
Project Code: 406
Project Code: 26
Harriet Johnson, RR 3, Box 77, Valley City, ND
Truman Stenhjem, P.O. Box 200, Grandin, ND
Armin Rehm, Box 313, Glen Ullin, ND 58631;
58072; (701) 845-0708
58038; (701) 484-5353
(701) 348-3700
Album containing illustrated biographies of
The North Dakota Centennial/Gold Label Feeds
Lists of names and addresses of living children
members of North Dakota Business and Profes-
driveway sign will be given to customers that
whose parents resided in the Dakota Territory
sional Women who have made a significant con-
have bought a minimum of 6 tons of feed within
before the end of 1889. Citizens to be recog-
tribution to the history of women in North Dakota.
the past fiscal year.
nized at public ceremonies.
GERMANS FROM RUSSIA HONOR HALL
CENTENNIAL MONUMENT PROJECT
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
Project Code: 306
Project Code: 461
Project Code: 60
Mary Ebach, Box 357, Minot, ND 58702; (701)
Harvey Tallackson, 1405 1st Ave. N., Box 1478,
Jo Jacobson, Box 57, Rt. 2, Alamo, ND 58830;
838-1000
Grand Forks, ND 58206; (701) 746-4461
(701) 539-2312
The Rugby Chapter of the Germans From
The Nodak Rural Electric Co-op will construct
Special programs and ceremonies are being
Russia wish to dedicate a hall of honor for the
5 fieldstone monuments in Grafton, Hillsboro,
arranged to honor the achievements of North
people that worked so hard to organize this
Devils Lake, Cavalier and Larimore dedicated
Dakota women during month of March of 1989.
chapter.
to Nodak Rec Pioneers.
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ERLING ROLFSRUD WRITINGS
STEELE COUNTY LOG CABIN
EDMORE COMMUNITY CAFE PROJECT
Project Code: 362
Project Code: 128
Project Code: 323
Dr. Glenn Melvey, 1104 Second Ave. S., Fargo,
Tom Jacobson, RR 1, Finley, ND 58056; (701)
Shirley Freije, P.O. Box 188, Edmore, ND 58330;
ND 58103; (701) 241-4872
524-1849
(701) 644-2456
Fargo Public Schools will celebrate the Centen-
Will continue work that began in '83 on a log
The Edmore Community Cafe Committee plan
nial by introducing the writings of Erling Rolfsrud
cabin placed on county courthouse grounds by
to purchase and renovate the old fire-damaged
to 4th and 5th grade students.
installing floor and furnishing appropriate
building and reopen a new cafe.
artifacts from county museum.
"KNOW YOUR STATE"
TURTLE MOUNTAIN POW-WOW
Project Code: 368
ALICE HALL RENOVATION
Project Code: 325
Judy L. Zins, RR 1, Box 9A, Raleigh, ND 58564;
Project Code: 140
Denise Poitra, P.O. Box 207, Belcourt, ND
(701) 597-3661
Kathy Maruska, Alice, ND 58003; (701) 689-6447
58316; (701) 477-6011
Leahy Public School District #34 will have K-8
The Alice Hall will be improved to accommodate
The Turtle Mountain Pow-Wow Association
students do a project on a North Dakota person,
recreation, entertainment, art and cultural
plans to renovate the Pow-Wow grounds which
event, industry, government entity, region, etc.,
events.
will include: landscaping, building bleachers,
once a week.
cookshack and exhibit stands.
RENO/CENT. USE. OF WIS. C. PK
MANDAN CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE
Project Code: 151
BEARD GROWING CONTEST
ELMWOOD CENTENNIAL HOUSE
Howard Breitling, 14 South 9th Street, Wishek,
Project Code: 503
Project Code: 327
ND 58495; (701) 452-2522
208 E. Main, Mandan, ND 58554; (701) 663-5977
John Morgan, Highway 17 West, Grafton, ND
To renovate the Wishek city parks.
58237; (701) 352-2407
This statewide beard growing contest will have
several catagories. The revenue produced from
Heritage Village of the Walsh County Historical
RENO/CENT. USE. OF WIS. CIV. CN
the contest will help pay for Mandan's Centen-
Society will restore the Elmwood Victorian-style
Project Code: 152
house built in 1875 and 20 acres of lawn and
nial events.
Howard Breitling, 14 South 9th Street, Wishek,
woods.
ND 58495; (701) 452-2522
NORTH DAKOTA PARADE PLANNING
Project Code: 508
To make roofing and interior improvements on
THELMA SCHOOL RESTORATION
Kenneth R. Halley, 1020 N. Broadway, Minot,
the Wishek Civic Center.
Project Code: 328
ND 58701-2393; (701) 852-3000
Ev Miller, 400 Ave. E, Bismarck, ND 58501; (701)
SCHOOL RESTORATION
221-3748
Kenneth Halley will provide information about
Project Code: 162
1989 North Dakota parades (schedules and
Myrtle Nygaard, Box 128, Noonan, ND 58765;
The Bismarck Public Schools has been given the
entries), with the center of attention being the
old one-room school house near Driscoll, ND.
(701) 925-5618
official Centennial parade in Mandan.
Plans are to repair and move it to Bismarck.
Money will be raised to repair and maintain the
Noonan school for future use as a community
HETTINGER SOFTBALL COMPLEX
RESTORATION &
center. The school is now closed.
Project Code: 382
RENOVATION
Bob Owens, RR 1, Box 126, Hettinger, ND
STUTSMAN CO. COURTHOUSE RESTOR.
58639; (701) 567-2401
"SAVE THE OLD ARMORY"
Project Code: 163
Project Code: 9
James E. Sperry, ND Heritage Center, Bismarck,
The Hettinger Centennial Committee will
ND 58505; (701) 224-2666
sponsor a project to remodel and refurbish the
Joe Mendro, Box 352, Williston, ND 58802; (701)
existing softball complex.
572-0278
The goal of this project is to preserve and restore
Preserve and restore old Williston armory to use
the historic Stutsman County Courthouse. The
GREAT NORTHERN DEPOT
facility as a center of visual and performing arts.
1883 structure exhibits gothic revival
Project Code: 463
architecture.
Rick Engebretson, Box 2564, Fargo, ND 58108;
CARROL HOUSE RESTORATION
(701) 232-2561
Project Code: 39
THEATRE RENOVATION
Project Code: 177
The Great Northern Partnership is planning to
Jerome Kelsh, Fullerton, ND 58441; (701)
Deb Belquist, 330 Central, New Rockford, ND
renovate the Great Northern Depot into an
375-6701
58356; (701) 947-2395
office building.
Restore the 1889 wood frame hotel located in
Fullerton to turn of century style - will operate
To renovate movie theatre to make it useable
it as hotel.
for stage productions. The theatre serves as a
regional center for the arts.
SPEAKERS
LÄWRENCE WELK HOME RESTORATION
Project Code: 55
POWERS LAKE HEALTH CLINIC
HUMANITIES SPEAKERS BUREAU
Mylene Zacher, Box 342, Strasburg, ND 58573;
Project Code: 231
Project Code: 75
(701) 336-7528
Donna Fredrickson, Box 186, Powers Lake, ND
Everett C. Albers, P.O. Box 2191, Bismarck, ND
58773; (701) 464-5630
58502; (701) 663-1948
Restore the birthplace of Lawrence Welk a
farmstead near Strasburg. The home was
Renovation of a former bank building for use as
Scholars of humanities will visit throughout state
originally constructed of mud brick.
a community health clinic. The building is made
to present characterizations of North Dakota
of native rock.
political and social history.
BAGG BONANZA FARM RESTORATION
Project Code: 27
"SAVE THE DEPOT"
HUMANITIES FELLOWSHIPS
Douglas Kuruc, RR 1, Box 69A, Colfax, ND
Project Code: 236
Project Code: 76
58018
Myron Theurer, RR 1, Box 115, Leith, ND 58551;
Everett C. Albers, P.O. Box 2191, Bismarck, ND
Restoration of the 15 acre Bagg Bonanza Farm.
(701) 622-3541
58502; (701) 663-1948
Site consists of 22 buildings including a 20
Moving a depot which is threatened with demoli-
Fellowship for seven scholars in each of the
bedroom farm home built in 1885. One of the
tion to the site of the Grant Co. Historical Society
years 1987, 1988, and 1989.
best examples of Bonanza Farms in U.S.
Pioneer Village in Carson. The building-will be
used for exhibits and storage.
VALLEY CENTENNIAL CHAUTAUQUA
ST. PETER'S CEMETERY
Project Code: 274
Project Code: 115
BOWDON CENTENNIAL MUSEUM
Patti Norman, Box 248, Grand Forks, ND
Fr. Philip Schuster, P.O. Box 394, Ft. Yates, ND
Project Code: 252
58206-0248; (701) 746-2750
58538; (701) 854-3473
Doris Fortney, Rt. 2, Box 6, Bowdon, ND 58418;
Chautauqua to be held in four communities dur-
To establish a permanent fund for restoration
(701) 962-3389
ing July and August of 1989. Sponsored by the
and continuing maintenance of St. Peter's
Renovation of the old city hall for use as a
Grand Forks Park District, the program will
Cemetery, Fort Yates.
museum and library.
examine 18th Century ideas and values.
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HISTORICAL SPEAKERS BUREAU
PRAIRIE ROSE STATE GAMES
STATUES & MONUMENTS
Project Code: 410
Project Code: 107
Jeff Altizer, P.O. Box G, Williston, ND 58801;
PIONEER OF THE FUTURE STATUE
Tim Mueller, 1424 W. Century Ave., Suite 202,
(701) 774-9041
Bismarck, ND 58502; (701) 224-4887
Project Code: 52
Marijo L. Shide, Rt. 1, Box 92C, Larimore, ND
The Williams County Centennial Committee
Prairie Rose State Games is a multi-sports
58251; (701) 343-2734
plans to have all of the Humanities Council
festival for amateur North Dakota athletes.
Prairie People visit the Williams County Schools.
To encourage the involvement of youth in the
Centennial a bronze statue will depict boy and
SPEAKER/SINGER
A JOURNEY ACROSS AMERICA
girl looking to the future, carrying on North
Project Code: 460
Project Code: 157
Dakota's heritage.
Dr. Joseph M. Hegstad, 1805 2nd Ave. SW
Donna Doepke, Box 522, Washburn, ND 58577;
ALL VETERANS MEMORIAL
#211, Minot, ND 58701; (701) 857-3187
(701) 462-8222
Project Code: 70
Dr. Hegstad's presentation is based on patriotic
Group of 36 children, ages 4-14, who perform
Wm. J. Carey, P.O. Box 1133, Bismarck, ND
vignettes which range from humorous to inspira-
a series of gymnastics, tumbling and mini-tramp
58502; (701) 223-2427
tional. All materials are North Dakota related.
routines. Available for performances.
Erect a monument on Capitol Grounds to honor
all North Dakota vets who died during 1st
NORTH PARK CENT. SHELTER PROJECT
Century of North Dakota statehood.
SPORTS & RECREATION
Project Code: 211
VERENDRYE MEMORIAL MARKER
Craig Voigt, 811 1st Ave. N., New Rockford, ND
Project Code: 181
CENTENNIAL RELAY RUN
58356; (701) 947-2417
Ervin M. Anderson, Box 292, Velva, ND 58790;
Project Code: 7
A shelter for use by campers and others will be
(701) 338-2606
Nancy A. Johnson, 629 High Plains Ct., Grand
constructed and dedicated for the Centennial.
Forks, ND 58201; (701) 772-2790
To erect a monument commemorating the 250th
The facilities will be located at North Park. Trees
anniversary of La Verendrye's journey to the
A relay run across the state from Pembina to
will be planted at the site.
west. The site of the monument is a small park
Medora.
in Velva.
MONTPELIER TENNIS COURT
ND CENTENNIAL RUN
DAVID THOMPSON HISTORIC SITE
Project Code: 14
Project Code: 221
Project Code: 226
Mary Ann Schmaltz, 409 East Brandon,
Patti Debuck, Box 155, Montpelier, ND 58472;
Theresa Haugland, Box 482, Velva, ND 58790;
Bismarck, ND 58501; (701) 258-3148
(701) 489-3320
(701) 338-2312
1200-1600 mile relay run across the state will
Construction of a community tennis court for use
Placement of a locational sign near the site of
start and end at Heritage Center - involve all
by students and others.
the David Thompson monument northeast of
major areas - North Dakota school children will
Velva. Project also includes maintenance of the
participate.
POWERS LAKE RECREATION PROJECT
road and grounds.
Project Code: 232
SARNIA TOWNSHIP MEMORIAL
COWBOY CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
Donna Fredrickson, Box 186, Powers Lake, DN
Project Code: 273
Project Code: 33
58773; (701) 464-5630
Corella G. Baker, RR 1, Box 108, Michigan, ND
Vickie Pennington, NCO1-Box 21A, Killdeer, ND
Development of a recreation area to include
58259; (701) 259-2429
58640; (701) 224-2388
newly planted trees, four boat docks, picnic
Residents of Sarnia Township and the village of
Designed to pay tribute to the State Centennial
tables and shelter, and playground equipment.
Whitman will erect a monument in honor of their
at NDRA rodeos and functions - 20-25 local
heritage and the state's Centennial.
rodeos, the NDRA state championship finals
rodeo-State Fair, awards banquet.
RED RIVER CANOE MARATHON
DODGE STATUE RENOVATION
Project Code: 257
Project Code: 301
CENTENNIAL BICYCLE TOUR
Gary Goodrich, 4015 9th Ave. SW, Fargo, ND
Ginnette Ehli, RR, Box 26A, Dodge, ND 58625;
Project Code: 34
58103; (701) 277-1515
(701) 846-7370
Darrel W. Hestdalen, 1186 Senior Avenue,
Red River TV will sponsor a canoe race of world-
A statue depicting a buffalo, a deer and Mer-
Dickinson, ND 58601; (701) 227-1105
class proportions in June of 1989. The race will
riweather Lewis, will be renovated.
A one-week bicycle tour will cross North Dakota
begin in Fargo and end several days later in
Winnipeg.
MONUMENT AT NW CORNER OF ND
from Williston to Fargo during the summer of
1989. Tour open to the public.
Project Code: 321
Bryan Beggs, P.O. Box 675, Williston, ND
LEWIS AND CLARK TRAIL RUN
58802; (701) 572-6352
BIKE TREK, JULY 1989
Project Code: 347
Project Code: 62
The Missouri Breaks Chapter of the North
Chuck Peterson, 2500 Railroad Ave., Bismarck,
Duane K. Flick, P.O. Box 5004, Bismarck, ND
Dakota Society of Professional Land Surveyors
ND 58501; (701) 222-1111
58502; (701) 223-5613
will provide equipment, research, survey and
A run beginning in St. Louis will follow the Lewis
labor to place monument at North Dakota's NW
A bicycle trek from Fargo to Beach on Interstate
and Clark Trail. The five northwestern states will
corner.
94 during July 1989 - will serve as fundraiser
be included. The Lewis and Clark Heritage
for the Lung Association.
VELVA COAL MINERS MONUMENT
Foundation is sponsoring the run.
Project Code: 286
OAKES CENTENNIAL TRACK PROJECT
Edward Bickler, Mayor, Box 219, Velva, ND
Project Code: 77
8-BALL STATE SINGLES TOURNAMENT
58790; (701) 338-2660
C.A. (Chuck) Just, Postal Patron, Oakes, ND
Project Code: 430
To mount a donated coal hauling uke on cement
58474; (701) 742-2189
Dwight Wrangham, 2100 E. Sweet Ave.,
with a sign commemorating Velva coal mine
Bismarck, ND 58504; (701) 223-7588
Construct a 400-meter track for the Oakes High
employees.
School and community.
Eight-ball pool tournament involving players who
have played in organized leagues from around
THEATRE & DRAMA
1989 NORTH AMERICAN REGATTA
North Dakota.
"T.R." DRAMA
Project Code: 85
Project Code: 15
Donna Schouweiller, 1424 W. Century Ave.,
8-BALL STATE TEAM TOURNAMENT
William T. Query, MD, 3510 2nd Street N.,
Bismarck, ND 58501; (701) 224-4887
Project Code: 431
Fargo, ND 58102; (701) 232-3241
North American Regatta is a hobie and sailboard
Dwight Wrangham, 2100 E. Sweet Ave.,
A musical based on the life and times of Teddy
sailing regatta held on the 3rd weekend in July
Bismarck, ND 58504; (701) 223-7588
Roosevelt during his visits to the Badlands of
on Lake Sakakawea. 1989 event will have
Eight-ball pool tournament involving teams who
Dakota Territory 1883-1886 - includes dance,
national competition.
played in organized leagues from around the state.
ballads, chorus - cast of 22.
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DAKOTALAND (A PLAY)
WHEN THE MEADOWLARK SINGS
"CENTENNIAL TREE FARM PROJECT"
Project Code: 37
Project Code: 386
Project Code: 194
Doug Fosse, 2211 17th Ave., S., Grand Forks,
William Borden, 307 Princeton St., Grand Forks,
Walt Pasicznyk, Molberg Center for Forestry,
ND 58201; (701) 772-3431
ND 58201; (701) 777-4306
Bottineau, ND 58318; (701) 228-2277
A play based on the experiences of growing up
The official Centennial drama, "When the
The goal of this project is to certify 100 new tree
in rural North Dakota developed by students -
Meadowlark Sings," will be performed
farms by May 1, 1989. They will be identified by
resource people in Grand Forks - script
throughout N.D. during the Centennial year.
a green and white "Centennial Tree Farm" sign.
available
SAKAKAWEA: WOMEN W/ MANY NAMES
CENTENNIAL GROVE
NORTH DAKOTA CENTENNIAL PAGEANT
Project Code: 387
Project Code: 195
Project Code: 56
Wm. Borden and Thomas Peterson, P.O. Box
Larry Kotchman, State Forester, Bottineau, ND
Delphine Draxton, Northwood, ND 58267; (701)
326-4344
8004, Grand Forks, ND 58202; (701) 777-4306
58318; (701) 228-2277
Research and write a Centennial pageant to be
"Sakakawea: The Women With Many Names"
A tree planting on the capitol grounds to com-
is a musical drama about Sakakawea. The
memorate the Centennial Decade Trees
performed by Northwood Theater Association.
musical will tour North Dakota and feature both
Program.
LEWIS & CLARK DRAMA
professional and nonprofessional singers and
CENTENNIAL TREE PACKETS-ND SCHOOLS
dancers.
Project Code: 84
Project Code: 215
Judy Lang, P.O. Box 84, Stanton, ND 58571;
Roy LaFramboise, SR2 Box 13, Towner, ND
(701) 745-3380
HISTORIC SITE INTERPRETIVE TROUPE
58788; (701) 537-5636
Historical drama depicting the return visit of
Project Code: 392
A free packet of 100 seedling trees will be
explorers Lewis and Clark to the Sakakawea
Marcia Britton Wolter, North Dakota Heritage
Village on their way back from the Pacific in
Center, Bismarck, ND 58505; (701) 224-2799
distributed to each school that wishes to par-
ticipate in a Centennial tree planting program.
1806.
A three actor troupe will perform for 2 weekends
Tree planting info will also be included.
at each of 4 major historic sites. The perfor-
DE MORES PLAY
mances are based on historic documentation
GROW YOUR OWN CENTENNIAL TREES
Project Code: 67
and will focus on actual people and events.
Project Code: 222
Paul E. Trauger, P.O. Box 368, Mandan, ND
Roy LaFramboise, SR2, Box 13, Towner, ND
58554; (701) 667-3300
PLAIN PEOPLE CENTENNIAL TOUR
58788; (701) 537-5636
Create a play based on the murder trial of the
Project Code: 399
Distribute free packets of 100 Ponderosa pine
Marquis de Mores (which took place in Mandan).
Larry Olson, 1518 N. 3rd Ave, F, Fargo, ND
seeds to North Dakotans. Information about tree
58102; (701) 232-1646
planting and nurturing will also be distributed.
PRAIRIE WOMEN SONGS
The Plain People Centennial Tour is a series of
Project Code: 98
CENTENNIAL TREES PROJECT
hour-long performances to be held in twenty
Marion Kolb, 1243 15th Ave. SW, Minot, ND
different North Dakota communities.
Project Code: 258
58701; (701) 839-8671
Corps of Engineers, Box 517, Riverdale, ND
"Prairie Women Songs" is a reader's theater
58565; (701) 654-7411
A WEEK OF A PIONEER LADY
based on material compiled for Plum Valley
Project Code: 435
Major tree planting effort conducted by the U.S.
Women, Minot's first 100 years published in '85.
Marlys Hogstad, P.O. Box 71, Hazel, SD 57242
Army Corps of Engineers to enhance public
Script and brochure available.
lands of Lake Sakakawea, Lake Oahe, Pipestem
A skit entitled "A Week of a Pioneer Lady" will
and Bowman-Haley projects.
"HEARTLAND" A MUSCIAL DRAMA
be available for use by community and other
Project Code: 255
groups.
CENTENNIAL TREE CLAIMS
Steve Heskin, RR 2, Box 191, Hatton, ND 58240;
Project Code: 287
(701) 543-3612
Larry A. Kotchman, State Forester, Molberg
"Heartland," written by North Dakota playwright
TREES
Center, 1st and Brander, Bottineau, ND 58318;
Glory Monson, will tour the state during the
(701) 228-2277
CENTENNIAL DECADE TREES PROGRAM
Centennial year. The play is the North Dakota
Plaques will be presented to landowners to
Community Theatre Association's contribution
Project Code: 145
locate, renovate and preserve original tree
to the Centennial.
NDCC, 2204 E. Broadway, Bismarck, ND 58501;
claims established under the Timber Culture Act
(701) 224-2589
of 1873.
THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE
A 10-year project to strengthen North Dakota's
Project Code: 278
annual tree planting tradition. The focal project
DEVILS LAKE CENTENNIAL ARBORETUM
Donna Fredrickson, Box 186, Powers Lake, ND
of the State Centennial.
Project Code: 310
58773; (701) 464-5630
CENTENNIAL TREE PLANTINGS
Gary Krantz, P.O. Box 1048, Devils Lake, ND
Powers Lake Centennial committee will present
Project Code: 45
58301-1048; (701) 662-2417
the one-act play "The Little Red Schoolhouse"
Michael Connor, Box 1048, Devils Lake, ND
The Centennial Arboretum will be located at the
during the Centennial year. Available for
58301; (701) 662-4098
junction of N.D. highways 19 and 20. It will con-
scheduling.
Centennial tree plantings are planned at several
tain 25 varieties of trees and there will be public
locations in Devils Lake.
parking and sidewalks for viewing.
GHOST DANCE - A DANCE-DRAMA
roject Code: 279
HIGHWAY BEAUTIFICATION
Standing Rock Community College, Fort Yates,
CENTENNIAL COTONEASTER
Project Code: 379
ND 58538; (701) 854-3861
Project Code: 105
W.C. Skjenen, Box 180, Park River, ND 58270;
August J. Dornbusch, Jr., P.O. Box 1458,
Standing Rock Community College will develop
(701) 284-7219
Bismarck, ND 58502; (701) 255-4011
and present a two-act dance-drama entitled
The Park River Centennial Committee will plant
"Ghost Dance." The play will explore many
A new variety of cotoneaster shrub named
117 trees on east side of a bike path east of Park
"Centennial."
aspects of Native American tradition and culture.
River on highway right of way.
GFWC 75 YEARS/ND 100 YEARS
ND CENTENNIAL TREE FARMER PROGRAM
SUNSET SODBUSTER PROJECT
Project Code: 349
Project Code: 125
Project Code: 398
Lydia Hanson, 564 9th Ave. N., Carrington, ND
Gary Puppe, Box 1601, Bismarck, ND 58502;
Terry Schmidt, P.O. Box 365, Mandan, ND
58421; (701) 652-2336
(701) 223-8518
58554; (701) 667-3239
The Fine Arts Club of Carrington-General
A four year program involving each of 62 North
The Mandan City Forester is the contact person
Federation of Women's Clubs will put on a skit
Dakota Soil Conservation Districts. Participants
for this tree planting project. People or groups
entitled "75 Years for GFWC- ND Fine Arts Club
receive an attractive, long lasting North Dakota
will purchase, plant and maintain the trees for
- 100 Years for North Dakota."
Centennial tree farmer sign.
three years.
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TREE-PER-VET PROJECT
WAHPETON CENTENNIAL TREE PROJECT
PASS. TRAIN MANDAN-FT. LINCOLN
Project Code: 408
Project Code: 426
Project Code: 180
John R. Conlin, Box 1161, Williston, ND 58801;
Ron Strand, P.O. Box 8, Wahpeton, ND 58075;
William Engelter, Jr., Box 1001, Mandan, ND
(701) 572-7358
(701) 642-2611
58554; (701) 663-7700
The goal of this project is to plant 10,000 trees
Trees and shrubs to be planted along the
Plans are to operate a passenger train between
honoring people who lost their lives on foreign
corridor leading to the city of Wahpeton on
Mandan and Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park
battlefields.
Highway #13.
during the summer of 1989.
NORWEST "WELCOME TO BISMARCK"
WALSH COUNTY TREE ARBORETUM
Project Code: 418
WAGON TRAIN OVERNIGHT
Project Code: 472
Steve Jacobsen, P.O. Box 1538, Bismarck, ND
Terri Sundvor, Box G, Park River, ND 58270;
Project Code: 238
58502; (701) 222-5139
Jane Grunseith, RR 1, Box 165, Velva, ND
(701) 284-7466
58790; (701) 624-5454
Norwest Bank North Dakota in cooperation with
35 species of trees have been planted adjacent
the Bismarck City Forestry Department will
Dakota Roughrider Saddle Club will host the
to the Soil District tree storage building in Park
install 3 signs "Welcome to Bismarck" with
River. The grade and high schools will use it as
East River wagon train during their last night
plantings at 3 entrance locations to Bismarck.
an outdoor classroom.
before arriving at Minot for the State Fair parade.
Evening of fun open to all.
DAKOTA DRIVE
Project Code: 419
FORT TOTTEN TRAIL CENTENNIAL RIDE
Robert Phillips, 406 Main Ave., Fargo, ND
Project Code: 251
58126; (701) 293-4205
Dick White, Box 404, Devils Lake, ND 58301;
Norwest Bank North Dakota/Fargo will plant 206
(701) 662-4697
trees along Dakota Avenue.
Wagon train will follow the Fort Totten trail to Fort
GRAFTON CENTENNIAL TREES
Abraham Lincoln during late June and early July
Project Code: 420
of 1989.
Wayne Mathison, P.O. Box 122, Grafton, ND
58237; (701) 352-1842
WAGON TRAINS &
EAST RIVER WAGON TRAIN
Norwest Bank North Dakota/Grafton and the
OTHER EXPEDITIONS
Project Code: 16
Grafton Park Board will plant trees in various
Hank Vannett, RR 1, Bismarck, ND 58501; (701)
locations throughout the Grafton area.
CARSON WAGON TRAIN
223-8116
Project Code: 18
A wagon train from Fargo to Minot in July -
HILLSBORO CITY BEAUTIFICATION
Eldon Schock, RR 1, Box 155, Leith, ND 58551;
arrive Minot for State Fair parade - nightly stops
Project Code: 421
(701) 662-3349
with entertainment, auction, sale of Centennial
Jack Hansen, 212 West Caledonia Ave.,
Hillsboro, ND 58045; (701) 436-5575
Wagon train drive from Carson to Ft. Abraham
products.
Lincoln will arrive to participate in 4th of July
Norwest Bank North Dakota, National Associa-
parade - West River Teamsters conducting
FROM EAST TO WEST IN NORTH DAKOTA
tion will plant 475 trees in the berms within
ride.
Project Code: 277
Hillsboro.
Warren K. Volker, Sr., 846 South 23rd Street,
RED RIVER CENTENNIAL WAGON TRAIN
CITY SIGNS AND TREE PROJECT
Grand Forks, ND 58201; (701) 772-8885
Project Code: 48
Project Code: 422
Roger Brekke, Milnor, ND 58060; (701) 427-5532
In June of 1989 a covered wagon will travel from
Dan DeKrey, 111 2nd Ave. NW, Mandan, ND
East Grand Forks to the Montana line following
58554; (701) 663-9805
A wagon and trail ride from Fort Abercrombie
Highway 2 west.
to Bismarck. Open to the public.
Norwest Bank North Dakota/Mandan will erect
"Welcome to Mandan" signs and plant 10
ROSE BOWL PARADE FLOAT
RIVER FLOTELLA AND HWY. CARAVAN
evergreen trees in Sunset Park in Mandan on
Project Code: 103
Project Code: 346
Arbor Day 1989.
Eldon Schock, Leith, ND 58551; (701) 622-3349
Vernon Useldinger, Box 2666, Fargo, ND 58108;
CENTENNIAL FOREST
West River Teamsters float in Rose Parade at
(701) 293-3120
Project Code: 423
Pasadena, CA, on New Year's Day 1989. Plan to
A Missouri River flotilla and a highway caravan
Ronald A. Arndt, Box 2016, Jamestown, ND
hitch team and pull North Dakota covered wagon.
will conclude with a gala Centennial celebration
58401; (701) 251-2540
at Mobridge, South Dakota.
DAKOTA AERONAUTICAL EXPEDITION
Norwest Bank North Dakota/Jamestown will
Project Code: 83
plant 5 acres of tree per year to develop a
Rolf Sletten, C-11, 418 E. Broadway Avenue,
CANOE TO THE GULF
Centennial forest.
Bismarck, ND 58501; (701) 255-0056
Project Code: 417
Don Johnson, Box 654, Grafton, ND 58237;
MINOT CENTENNIAL WOODS PROJECT
Entry of four North Dakota adventurists in a 6000
(701) 352-1457
Project Code: 424
kilometer Australian hot air balloon race,
Thomas R. Stockert, P.O. Box 1488, Minot, ND
bicentennial trans-Australian ballooning
Two members of the Emergency Medical
58702; (701) 857-1718
challenge set for March and April, 1988.
Technicians Association will canoe from
Bismarck to the Gulf of Mexico using the
Norwest Bank North Dakota/Minot with the city
FORT SEWARD WAGON TRAIN
Missouri and Mississippi river systems.
of Minot and the Boy Scouts will plant trees for
a Centennial woods project.
Project Code: 119
Linda Deutscher, P.O. Box 224, Jamestown, ND
CENTENNIAL WAGON TRAIN
RE-FOREST CITY PARKS
58402; (701) 486-3354
Project Code: 445
Project Code: 425
1989 trek of annual Ft. Seward wagon trail takes
Kenneth Jakobsen, Beaver Valley Horse Club,
Glen Wischmannl, Box 996, Valley City, ND
place during last week in June. Most of 100 to
Strasburg, ND 58573; (701) 336-7497
58072; (701) 845-2210
150 adventurists taking trip come from outside
The Beaver Valley Horse Club will sponsor a
Norwest Bank North Dakota/Valley City will plant
North Dakota.
wagon train from Strasburg to Mandan.
91 trees in city parks to replace dead and dying
trees.
VOYAGE OF THE CENTENNIAL MESSENGER
Project Code: 142
CENTENNIAL FLOAT TRIP
LEMMON TREE NURSERY
Allan Maybee, P.V. Rt. Box 2434A, Riverton, WY
Project Code: 500
Project Code: 439
82501; (307)
Donald A. Fox, 2117 Fox Drive, Billings, MT
Clark Johnson, 303 1st Ave. West, Lemmon, ND
2,500 mile voyage begins in '88, will ride
59102; 656-6573
57638; (701) 374-3857
horseback and walk, will display some of the
A Centennial float trip terminating a five year trip
The city of Lemmon will plant trees north of the
beaver skins obtained by trapping. Journey
down the lower Yellowstone River. The 1989 trek
city to replace damanged ones.
through other states.
is from Glendive, MT to Fort Buford, ND.
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INDEX OF
CENTENNIAL PROJECT CATEGORIES
Arts & Crafts
1
Construction & Reconstruction
2
Dance
2
Demonstrations & Reinactments
2
Development
3
Exhibits and Displays
3
Events
5
Film, Video & Audio
9
Historical Markers & Sites
9
Music
10
Parks & Trails
11
Preservation
12
Publications
12
Recognition
15
Restoration and Renovation
16
Speakers
16
Sports & Recreation
17
Statues & Monuments
17
Theatre & Drama
17
Trees
18
Wagon Trains & Other Expeditions
19
1001
NORTH
DAKOTA
CENTENNIAL
THE
CENTENNIAL
TREE PROGRAM
Strengthening North Dakota's Annual Tree Planting Tradition
&
100th
ANNIVERSARY
NORTH
1889-1989
DAKOTA
CENTENNIAL
Finding The Forest
Table of Contents
General Information
Reason
2
Purpose
4
Plan
4
Getting Started
5
Time Frame
5
Goal
6
Sponsors and Contributors
6
Planting Categories
Community Plantings
Centennial Grove
7
Centennial Arboretum
8
North Dakota Tree Species List
9
Rural/Wildlife Plantings
Centennial Woods
10
Centennial Forest
12
Centennial Tree Farmer
14
Plantings by Individuals
Centennial Tree Buyer
16
Centennial Tree Planter
18
Tree Planting
Centennial Decade Trees Committee
Reference Information
— The coordinating council
19
Where to Turn for Help
— Tree Planting Professionals:
North Dakota Forest Service
21
North Dakota Association of Soil Conservation Districts
23
USDA Soil Conservation Service (SCS)
25
USDA Agricultural Stabilization & Conservation Service (ASCS)
25
North Dakota Game & Fish Department
26
USDA Forest Service
27
North Dakota's Urban Foresters
27
North Dakota Parks and Recreation Department
29
US Army Corps of Engineers
29
US Bureau of Reclamation
30
North Dakota Tree Planting Committees and Associations
30
Books About Trees & Tree Planting
30
National Committees and Organizations
31
Films About Trees
31
Selected Bibliography
32
1
The Reason Why
A Living Legacy
N
orth Dakota was admitted to the
Viewing the situation as a challenge,
Union on November 2, 1889
North Dakotans have supported tree
North Dakota's Centennial is recognition
planting programs since before statehood
of having attained 100 years of statehood
when the Timber Culture Act was a
in 1989. North Dakotans have reason to
popular method of land settlement.
be proud of their achievement. It has
More recently, consistently large
been anything but easy for people to
numbers of windbreak and shelterbelt
form a lifestyle and govern themselves
projects have helped earn the state an
for the past century on the northern
excellent reputation for tree planting.
great plains. The often grim realities of
The benefits have been enormous to
climate, geography and economics have
sharpened the sense of having achieved
agriculture, commerce, business,
a victory at reaching 100 years.
transportation and wildlife, not to
mention the aesthetic rewards everyone
A much deserved outpouring of joy is
receives. It seems natural and it feels
expected on such a special occasion.
right to turn to tree planting at the time
Festivities are spread throughout the
of the centennial.
year during celebrations of every size and
Members of the North Dakota
variety, involving as many North
Dakotans as possible.
Centennial Commission joined with
North Dakota tree planting professionals
As enjoyable as that is, North Dakota
to direct the powerful good will of this
common sense says that even the once-
celebration into a program that celebrates
in-a-lifetime centennial celebration
the past and benefits the future. Planting
should include something which lasts
trees to commemorate the centennial
when the party is over. That notion is
was designated the "focal centennial
the seed for the Centennial Tree
project" on December 4, 1987.
Program.
Creating a "living legacy" will be a
Tree planting is, and has been an
lasting reminder of the 1989 celebration.
important activity ever since the first
Centennial Tree projects will be evident
groups of settlers arrived. Unfortunately,
for years to come, well into the second
land clearing and development have
century of North Dakota statehood and
progressed at a quicker pace than tree
perhaps until the state bicentennial.
planting. North Dakota's scarce forested
acreage has declined steadily since man
Your participation in tree planting
first started to break up the prairie.
projects is recognized as the most
Today, with 518,000 acres of native
important, single action you can take to
forest (representing just over one
commemorate the North Dakota
percent of the total land base), the state
Centennial. The North Dakota
carries the dubious distinction of being
Centennial Commission urges your
the least forested state in the nation.
support.
2
North Dakota Centennial Commission
Members of the commission:
Arthur A. Link, Chairman, Bismarck
Larry Erickson, Vice Chairman, Minot
George W. "Woody" Gagnon, Secretary, Bismarck
Lt. Governor Lloyd Omdahl, Bismarck
Harold A. Gershman, Grand Forks
Sher L. Quaday, Fargo
Senator Corliss Mushik, Mandan
Senator Ray Holmberg, Grand Forks
Rep. Cathy Rydell, Bismarck
Rep. John Hokana, Oakes
William C. Kelsch, Mandan
Shirley Simmons, West Fargo
Ironwood
Larry Schneider, Bismarck
Peter Kelley McKenzie, Michigan
Mary Louise Defender Wilson, Shields
Vern C. Neff, Williston
James E. Sperry, Bismarck
Jim Fuglie, Bismarck
Commission staff:
S.F. "Buckshot" Hoffner, Executive Director
Dennis J. Neumann, Deputy Director
Renea F. Dockter, Administrative Assistant
Ann M. Rathke, Director of Program & Grants Development
Patrick J. Brown, Communications Director
James H. Hewitson, Marketing Director
Nancy J. Vetter, Information Processing Operator
Stacie J. Greff, Adminstrative Clerk
Laura Anhalt, Program Aide
3
The Purpose
Strengthening North Dakota's
Annual Tree Planting Tradition
P
lanting Centennial Trees is intended
Since it takes more than just one year to
to strengthen the tradition of
start a tradition, the Centennial Tree
annual tree planting in North Dakota.
Program is designed to run an entire
Some people and organizations routinely
decade. The program starts in
plant every year on or around Arbor
conjunction with celebration of the state
Day, the first Friday in May.
Centennial in 1989, and carries through
If everyone, according to his or her own
to the end of the century in the year
abilities and resources, adopted the
2000. Some Centennial Tree projects
practice of planting trees each year the
began as early as 1986.
benefits soon would be obvious and
gratifying.
The Plan
Local Initiative Required
T
he Centennial Tree Program is a
That doesn't mean your local effort is
project to encourage increased
singular or independent. Your local
annual tree planting by making greater
initiative is enhanced by investigating
use of already established programs to
the options and making greater use of
carry out your local ideas.
government tree planting programs. A
A coordinating council known as the,
range of programs are described in this
Centennial Decade Trees Committee,
pamphlet. Many offer attractive cost-
guides the program. North Dakota tree
sharing incentives.
planting professionals from government
In the case of group sponsored plantings,
and the private sector are represented.
a committee should be formed. Existing
(member list on page 19)
organizations, such as service or volun-
teer clubs or Centennial committees are
The Centennial Tree Program works on
the practical notion that North
effective local sponsors.
Dakotans will show local initiative in
creating tree planting projects which
meet local needs. Current tree planting
programs are organized on a local
scheme, and nobody knows better than
residents about local needs.
4
Getting Started
Project Development
E
very North Dakota community has
development over a period of time.
what it takes to create outstanding
Remember the recommended time
living legacy projects. Keep in mind that
frame is 10 years.
the ultimate goal is to strengthen annual
Annual Spring Planting Event
tree planting traditions. The following
Strengthen that annual tradition by
are several suggestions for project
creating a spring planting event for your
development:
project on or around Arbor Day, the first
Make it a Group Effort
Friday in May.
Form a sponsoring group that can be
identified with the work of tree planting.
Put Your Plan in Writing
Don't make it a chore, but do put your
Assign One Person to be Responsible
plan in writing. Over the course of a
One of the rewards of doing a planting
decade, new people will join the effort.
project is to involve as many people as
They need to know the plan.
Blue Spruce
possible. But, it also makes good sense
to have one person in charge. Your
Project should reflect
working group should name one person
tree planting needs
as its Centennial Tree Project leader.
Investigate and take advantage
Think Big and Divide by 10
of tree planting programs
Your tree project may be evident. If not,
take suggestions and choose the one or
Recognize and thank participants
ones offering a chance for growth and
The Time Frame
The Centennial Decade
T
ree planting is the best long-term
some thinking ahead. How much land
moisture and nutrients. Young seedlings
project for the centennial. It offers
area will be needed? How will the trees
must be protected from weed and grass
lasting benefits for your community,
be maintained during the critical years
competition for at least five years after
association, business or property.
and beyond?
planting. Cultivation, herbicides, or
mowing may be used to eliminated such
Ten year tree planting projects will do
Nearly everyone can think of at least
vegetation. Protect the trees from fire
the most to strengthen tree planting
one place to plant trees. The real
and destructive grazing by livestock.
traditions among North Dakotans. A
challenge is to design the project to use
project should serve a community or
only part of the total space available
Ornamental and landscape trees need
area need. Each should be dedicated as
each year. Spreading the project over a
special care. Water and mulch potted
a "living legacy" in honor of the state
centennial decade makes it easier to
trees immediately after planting to
centennial.
accomplish a substantial tree planting
conserve moisture and control unwanted
goal. For example, a 10 acre "Centennial
vegetation. If dry weather occurs during
Many of the benefits won't be realized
Woods" project can be completed by
the first growing season, continue
until well into the 21st Century. Then,
planting one acre of trees each year for
watering once every 10-15 days. Fertili-
a new generation of North Dakotans will
10 years.
zation may be necessary if soil nutrients
appreciate the vision, commitment and
are lacking. As trees grow, periodic
dedication shown during the "Centennial
Planning will help avoid difficulties in
pruning will be needed to develop
Decade."
the future. Plantings near power poles or
proper branch structure. Selectively
under electric power lines are sure to
remove crowded limbs and damaged
Thinking Ahead for
create problems as trees grow to maturity.
branches. But, never remove extensive
Space and Maintenance
Planning a project that reaches its
Proper maintenance is extremely
portions of a tree's top. Such a practice
important. Weeds and grass can quickly
is known as topping or pollarding and it
conclusion in the year 2000 requires
overtop small trees restricting soil
can kill a tree of any age.
5
The Goal
1 Millions Trees for Each Year of Statehood
T
he goal is to plant 100,000,000
It won't be easy. The challenge is to
(yes, 100-million) trees by the turn
create, and carry out long range projects.
of the century in the year 2000. That
symbolic figure represents 1 million trees
Keeping Score
for each year of North Dakota statehood.
North Dakota tree planting figures are
A fitting gesture for the centennial.
complied by the office of the North
Dakota Forester at Bottineau. All of the
Yes, We can do it!
major tree planting organizations and
To reach 100,000,000 means planting an
agencies report annual plantings. The
average of 10,000,000 trees each year for
North Dakota Department of
a decade.
Agriculture, compiles the count of trees
North Dakota has an excellent reputation
sold annually in the private market.
for planting trees, especially shelterbelts
These statistics are combined to present
and field windbreaks. North Dakota's
an annual overview of North Dakota's
current annual plantings are estimated at
forest resources. Prior to Arbor Day each
approximately 3,500,000: According to
year, the North Dakota Forester reports
tree planting professionals, it is possible
to the citizens of North Dakota the
and realistic for us to triple our output
annual tree planting count, and the Cen-
and plant 10,000,000 annually.
tennial Trees program cumulative-totals.
Sponsors and Contributors
Our Sturdy Oak Trees
T
he North Dakota Centennial
Centennial Tree Program Sponsors
Commission and the Centennial
Saks News, Inc.
Decade Trees Committee accept contri-
North Dakota Association of Rural
butions to help defray costs associated
Electric Cooperatives
with the ongoing promotion of the
North Dakota Nursery and Greenhouse
Centennial Trees Program.
Association
The sturdy oak trees of the Centennial
Norwest Bank of North Dakota, N.A.
Trees program are the individuals and
and its nine locations across the state
organizations which have provided
actively support local tree planting
in-kind and cash contributions. Through
projects. Norwest Bank employees will
their generosity and vision North
be working on community committees
Dakotans of the second 100 years of
- organizing programs in recognition of
statehood will enjoy the living legacy of
the Centennial Tree Project.
trees.
* Contributions to the North Dakota
Centennial Commission are tax
deductible. (Federal tax-free transaction
number 45-70-001 OK)
NORTH DAKOTA
CENTENNIAL COMMISSION
2204 East Broadway
Bismarck, ND 58501
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Community Plantings
Centennial Grove
A
Centennial Grove is a community
nial trees memento, carrying the official
tree planting project covering
Centennial logo, is ready for framing.
between 5 and 10 acres in size, and which
To receive the Centennial Grove
is sponsored by a non-profit civic or
certificate write to the address listed
service organization, or by an entity of
local government.
below. Describe your project and
provide the correct name spelling of the
PLANTING IDEAS:
sponsoring organization, as you want it
1. Develop a city entrance tree project
to appear on the certificate. You will
2. Renovate picnic areas and parks with
receive the certificate by return mail
new plantings
along with a thank you letter from the
3. Plant urban windbreaks around your
North Dakota Centennial Commission.
city or town using labor donated
Centennial Arboretum
annually by youth and service
North Dakota Centennial Commission
Little-Leaf Linden
organizations
4. A special tree planting for each
2204 East Broadway
nationality in the community
Bismarck, ND 58501
5. Add appropriate tree and shrub
plantings to community recreation
areas such as at the local softball
State of North Dakota
complex or football field
6. Dedicate a memorial grove to a
Centennial Commission
pioneer citizen or community leader
Certificate of Recognition
7. Tree planting in the shape of the
city's name
EL "Buck Worthington
8. Help grade school students plant a
Centennial Tree Planter
Centennial Grove for the year their
class will graduate from high school
Georga Sennn Arthur A.Link
NORTH
DAKOTA
9. Plant a Centennial Grove as a noise
BenMeier
CENT ENNIAL
abatement screen near highways,
airports, railroads or industrial areas
COST SHARING:
10. Screen your city dump with
perimeter row plantings
If sufficient funds are raised, money may
be made available on a matching basis
TREE STOCK:
for Centennial Grove plantings. If and
Obtain tree stock for Centennial Grove
when such a program begins, funding
plantings from local nurseries and
priority will be given to projects already
greenhouses, or from urban forestry
underway or in the planning stages
departments. Size will determine the
which are designed to strengthen annual
cost. Some conservation plantings will
tree planting traditions with yearly
qualify for low cost tree stock from state
plantings through the year 2000.
or Soil Conservation District nursery
MORE INFORMATION:
sources.
The following cities have full time or part time forestry departments:
Consult your local Urban Forestry
Bismarck
222-6561
Kensal
435-2851
Office, or the Urban Forestry Specialist
Bottineau
228-2640
LaMoure
883-5957
of the North Dakota Forest Service. See
Cando
968-3030
Langdon
256-3747
page 19 for information.
Devils Lake
662-4098
Linton
254-4250
RECOGNITION:
Dickinson
225-2074
Mandan
667-3239
Sponsors of each Centennial Grove
Fargo
241-1465
Northwood
587-6010
receive a colorful 8" X 10" certificate
Grand Forks
756-2750
Valley City
845-1700
from the North Dakota Centennial
Hazen
748-2970
Wahpeton
642-2811
Commission. This personalized Centen-
Hope
945-2397
West Fargo
282-8088
Jamestown
252-5900
Williston
572-6368
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Community Plantings
Centennial Arboretum
An
n arboretum is a planting designed
FUNDING SOURCES:
to grow and display different kinds
Donations from local groups, especially
of trees, shrubs, vines and other plants
those that are raising funds through
of the region. The ideal Centennial
North Dakota's charitable gambling law
Arboretum is a planting which displays
respresent a promising source.
100 different varieties, although a specific
RECOGNITION:
number is not required.
Sponsors of each Centennial Arboretum
The main/feature of any arboretum is to
receive a colorful 8" by 10" certificate
label the different species for the
from the North Dakota Centennial
information and educational benefit of
Commission. This personalized centen-
visitors. Quite often arboretums are
nial trees memento, carrying the official
designed with an interpretive trail, and
Centennial logo, is ready for framing.
accompanying informational materials.
To receive the Centennial Arboretum
Some are enhanced by the planting of a
certificate write to the address listed
botanical garden containing plants other
than woody perennials, such as perennial
below. Describe your arboretum project
and annual flowers.
and provide the correct name spelling of
the sponsoring organization, as you want
PLANTING IDEAS:
it to appear on the certificate. You will
Arboretums can take many forms. They
receive the certificate by return mail-
are especially attractive when they follow
along with a thank you letter from the
a natural land formation. Inspiring vistas,
North Dakota Centennial Commission.
areas of solitude, and feelings of
Centennial Arboretum
relaxation can be created by the
North Dakota Centennial Commission
successful combination of different
folliage textures, tree forms and colors.
2204 East Broadway
Bismarck, ND 58501
Carefully planned additions to an area
with existing species can bring rapid
results.
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Centennial Arboretum Tree Stock
NORTH DAKOTA TREE SPECIES:
The following species are suitable to
North Dakota. Growing success will
depend on location and maintenance. A
tree planting professional can provide
planting and growing guidelines.
SHADE TREES
ORNAMENTAL TREES
American Linden (Basswood)
Amur Maple
Dakota Linden
Chokecherry
Pyramidal Linden
Schubert Chokecherry
Redmond Linden
(Canada Red Cherry)
Black Ash
Flowering Crabapple
Fallgołd Ash
Garry Crabapple
Hackberry
Black Walnut
Hopa Crabapple
Boxelder (Manitoba Maple)
Jack Crabapple
DECIDUOUS SHRUBS
Baron Maple
Midwest Crabapple
Caragana
Bur Oak
Radiant Crabapple
Centennial Cotoneaster
Common Hackberry
Red Splendor Crabapple
Elder
Oahe Hackberry
Rosthern Crabapple
Golden Currant
Delta Hackberry
Sellkirk Crabapple
Hardy Apricot
Dropmore Elm
Thunderchild Crabapple
Honeysuckle
Green Ash
Vanguard Crabapple
Juneberry
Bergeson Ash
Harbin Pear
Lilac
Cardan Ash
Mayday Cherry
Late Lilac
Jewell Ash
Mountain Ash
Villosa Lilac
Kindred Ash
Green's Mountain Ash
Mockorange
Marshall's Seedless Ash
European Mountain Ash
Mongolian Cherry
Patmore Ash
Nanking Cherry
Scarlet Mongolian Cherry
Summit Ash
Native Plum
Nanking Cherry
Tornado Ash
Russian Olive
Ninebark
Hawthorn
Tatarian Maple
Potentilla
Arnold Hawthorn
Redosier Dogwood
Hybrid Poplar
Rose
EVERGREEN TREES
Ironwood
Black Hills Spruce
Hansen Hedgerose
Japanese Elm
Russian Almond
Littleleaf Linden
Colorado Blue Spruce
Eastern Red Cedar
Sandcherry
Bicentennial Linden
Ponderosa Pine
Silverberry
Dropmore Linden
Greenspire Linden
Rocky Mountain Juniper
Silver Buffaloberry
Scotch Pine
Sakakawea Silver Buffaloberry
Morden Linden
Spirea
Wascana Linden
Sumac
Manchurian Ash
EVERGREEN SHRUBS
Viburnum
Mancana Ash
Arborvite
Woods Rose
Native White Birch
Horizontal Juniper
Soft Maple
Mugo Pine
Willow
Upright Juniper
Golden Willow
Yucca
White Willow
Laurel Willow
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Rural/Wildlife Plantings
Centennial Woods
A
Centennial Woods is a rural or
COSTS:
wildlife planting project covering
Federal financial assistance may be
10 to 24 acres in size or having 5,000 to
available through the Agricultural
12,499 trees. The project can be spon-
Conservation Program (ACP), the
sored by non-profit groups, individuals,
Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)
or by an entity of government. It may be
or the Great Plains Conservation
planted in one season, or in increments
Program (GPCP).
over the "Centennial Decade," through
The North Dakota Game and Fish
the year 2000.
Department will also supplement these
Many exciting opportunities exist. Mar-
cost share programs for wildlife tree
ginal, remnant or idle agriculture lands,
plantings. Design specifications must be
or land with highly erodible soils are
followed and the planting must be
potential Centennial Woods sites.
certified by a district forester or a soil
PLANTING IDEAS:
conservationist depending on the type of
1. Forest tree plantations for wildlife
tree plantings.
habitat
For complete information on cost-
2. Woodland reforestation
sharing, contact your county Agricultural
3. Environmental improvement projects
Stabilization and Conservation-Service
4. Wood products for eventual harvest,
office (ASCS) or district forester.
such as Christmas trees
TREE STOCK:
Centennial Woods tree stock may be
obtained from either the Towner State
Tree Nursery operated by the North
Dakota Forest Service or from your local
Soil Conservation District office. Tree
planting advice and machine planting
services are available by contacting the
North Dakota Forest Service district
office or your local Soil Conservation
District office. District foresters or soil
conservationists will provide a free,
on-farm visit to discuss your planting
ideas. Charges are made for trees and
planting services.
10
RESOURCE PEOPLE:
To receive this public "thank you," and
Other resource people available to help
a lasting reminder of your contribution,
you plan your Centennial Woods can be
send the name of the individual or
contacted at the North Dakota Game
sponsoring organization as it should
and Fish Department and the North
appear on the sign and certificate to the
Dakota Extension Service.
address below. You will be notified by
mail when to attend the annual REC
Some people and local groups that might
join you in planting a Centennial Woods
award ceremony in your area.
include farm organizations, Future
North Dakota Association of Rural
Farmers of America (FFA), wildlife clubs,
Electric Cooperatives
scouts, 4-H clubs, local farmers, county
P.O. Box 727
and state park managers, civic and service
Mandan, ND 58554
clubs, etc. The list is only as short as
MORE INFORMATION:
Soft Maple
your imagination.
To get started contact the nearest North
RECOGNITION:
Dakota Forest Service office or Soil
Those who plant, or pledge to plant, a
Conservation District office. Addresses
Centennial Woods receive special
and phone numbers are listed in the
recognition from the North Dakota
"Where to Turn for Help" section.
Association of Rural Electric Coopera-
tives, a member group of the Centennial
Decade Trees Committee.
During annual membership meetings, an
REC representative presents you or your
organization with an 18" X 24" weather
resistant sign, and an official Centennial
Woods certificate. On the attractive green
and white outdoor sign appears your
name, or the name of the sponsoring
organization, and date of the planting.
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Rural/Wildlife Plantings
Centennial Forest
A
Centennial Forest is a rural or
COSTS:
wildlife planting project covering
Federal financial assistance may be
at least 25 acres in size or having at least
available through the Agricultural
12,500 trees. The project can be spon-
Conservation Program (ACP), the
sored by non-profit groups, individuals,
Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)
or by an entity of government. It may be
or the Great Plains Conservation
planted in one season, or in increments
Program (GPCP).
over the "Centennial Decade," through
The North Dakota Game and Fish
the year 2000.
Department will also supplement these
Many exciting opportunities exist.
cost share programs for wildlife tree
Marginal, remnant or idle agriculture
plantings. Design specifications must be
lands, or land with highly erodible soils
followed and the planting must be
are potential Centennial Forest sites.
certified by a district forester or a soil
PLANTING IDEAS:
conservationist depending on the type of
1. Forest tree plantations for wildlife
tree plantings.
habitat
For complete information on cost-
2. Woodland reforestation
sharing, contact your county Agricultural
3. Environmental improvement projects
Stabilization and Conservation Service
4. Wood products for eventual harvest,
office (ASCS) or district forester.
such as Christmas trees
TREE STOCK:
Centennial Forest tree stock may be
obtained from either the Towner State
Tree Nursery operated by the North
Dakota Forest Service or from your local
Soil Conservation District office. Tree
planting advice and machine planting
services are available by contacting the
North Dakota Forest Service district
office or your local Soil Conservation
District office. District foresters or soil
conservationists will provide a free,
on-farm visit to discuss your planting
ideas. Charges are made for trees and
planting services.
12
RESOURCE PEOPLE:
To receive this public "thank you," and
Other resource people available to help
a lasting reminder of your contribution,
you plan your Centennial Forest can be
send the name of the individual or
contacted at the North Dakota Game
sponsoring organization as it should
and Fish Department and the North
appear on the sign and certificate to the
Dakota Extension Service.
address below. You will be notified by
mail when to attend the annual REC
Some people and local groups that
award ceremony in your area.
might join you in planting a Centennial
Forest include farm organizations, Future
North Dakota Association of Rural
Farmers of America (FFA), wildlife
Electric Cooperatives
clubs, scouts, 4-H clubs, local farmers,
P.O. Box 727
county and state park managers, civic
Mandan, ND 58554
and service clubs, etc. The list is only as
Russian Almond
MORE INFORMATION:
short as your imagination.
To get started contact the nearest North
RECOGNITION:
Dakota Forest Service office or Soil
Those who plant, or pledge to plant, a
Conservation District office. Addresses
Centennial Forest receive special
and phone numbers are listed in the
recognition from the North Dakota
"Where to Turn for Help" section.
Association of Rural Electric Coopera-
tives, a member group of the Centennial
Decade Trees Committee.
During annual membership meetings, an
REC representative presents you or your
organization with an 18" X 24" weather
resistant sign, and an official Centennial
Forest certificate. On the attractive green
and white outdoor sign appears your
name, or the name of the sponsoring
organization, and date of the planting.
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Rural/Wildlife Plantings
Centennial Tree Farmer
E
ach North Dakota Soil Conservation
TREE STOCK:
District operates a Centennial Tree
Tree stock for Centennial Tree Farmer
Farmer program. The program
plantings may be obtained from either
encourages landowners to make an extra
your local Soil Conservation District
effort to enlarge, improve or create new
office or from the Towner State Nursery
windbreaks of all types. Guidelines for
operated by the North Dakota Forest
the amount of trees that must be
Service. Tree planting advice and
planted to qualify as a Centennial Tree
machine planting services are available
Farmer differ from district to district.
by contacting your local Soil Conserva-
Contact the nearest local Soil
tion District office or a North Dakota
Conservation District office for program
Forest Service district office. Soil
details in your area.
conservationists or district foresters will
PLANTING IDEAS:
provide a free, on-farm visit to discuss
1. Expand existing farmstead, livestock
your planting ideas. Charges are made
of field windbreaks
for trees and planting services.
2. Establish new farmstead, livestock or
COSTS:
field windbreaks
Federal financial assistance may be
3. Plant trees for wildlife areas
available through the Agricultural
4. Establish living snow fences to protect
Conservation Program (ACP), the
driveways, county roads or state
Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)
highways
or the Great Plains Conservation
5. Plant windbreak protection for rural
Program (GPCP).
schools, churches or cemeteries
6. Plant windbreaks, screens or noise
The North Dakota Game and Fish
buffers for summer youth camps or
Department will also supplement these
church camps
cost share programs for wildlife tree
plantings.
14
To qualify for these programs, the
RECOGNITION:
landowner must be considered a farmer.
Recognition for Centennial Tree Farmers
Application for cost-sharing must be
is one of the special highlights of local
made before the trees are planted.
Soil Conservation District annual
Design specifications for the windbreak
meetings. A personalized, 18" by 24"
or wildlife plantings must be followed
weather resistant Centennial Tree
and planting must be certified by a soil
Farmer sign is presented by the district
conservationist in order to receive the
for qualifying plantings. Centennial Tree
cost-sharing. For complete information
Farmer signs at farmstead entrances are a
on cost-sharing, contact your county
reminder of your involvement with a
Agricultural Stabilization and Conserva-
lasting project of the North Dakota
tion Service (ASCS) or Soil
Centennial.
Conservation Service (SCS) office.
MORE INFORMATION:
Scotch Pine
RESOURCE PEOPLE:
To get started with your project contact
the closest Soil Conservation District
Other sources of assistance available to
help you plan your wildlife or windbreak
office. The addresses and phone
plantings include the North Dakota
numbers are listed on page 23.
Game and Fish Department, the North
Dakota Extension Service and the
county or state highway departments for
living snow fences.
Several local groups might also be inter-
ested in cooperating with local farmers
to commemorate the Centennial. These
groups could include farm organizations,
Future Farmers of America (FFA),
wildlife clubs, scouts, 4-H clubs, county
commissioners, Soil Conservation
District supervisors, civic and service
clubs, etc.
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Plantings By Individuals
Centennial Tree Buyer
D
ESCRIPTION: Centennial Tree
PLANTING IDEAS:
Buyers are individuals who
1. Backyard wildlife plantings
purchase and plant from 1 to 99 trees
2. Boulevard planting along residential
and/shrubs. Individual plantings on
and business streets
private property are a major contribution
3. Windbreaks to protect homes and
to the Centennial Tree Program.
business property
4. City entrance plantings
5. Have former residents recognize their
"North Dakota roots" by planting
trees on return visits
6. Plant a tree in your yard each Arbor
Day for a family member
7. Plant and dedicate a tree each Arbor
Day to an outstanding community
volunteer or leader
8. Families plant a fruit or shade tree at
the time of each new baby and name
it for the child, "Sarah's plum tree"
or "David's apple tree"
9. Plant a tree to commemorate a
birthday or wedding
10. Start an annual planting program at
the site of your summer youth or
church camp
11. Start an annual tree planting project
at your local senior citizens center
12. Plant trees at your favorite picnic or
camping sight by working with the
appropriate government agency
13. Plant trees near local historic sites
14. Plant a tree for each year your local
high school or church has been in
existence
15. Coordinate tree planting contests
between: local businesses; neighboring
towns; street to street; block to block
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TREE STOCK:
RECOGNITION:
Obtain tree stock for Centennial Tree
The North Dakota Nursery and Green-
Buyer plantings from local nurseries and
house Association issues an official 5" by
greenhouses. Participating retail outlets
7" registration certificate for all retail
have information about the Centennial
tree purchases at participating outlets.
Tree Program and often display the
The certificate is your record of partici-
Centennial logo.
pation in the Centennial Tree Program.
Most retail tree outlets are members of
The certificate is suitable for framing, or
the North Dakota Nursery and Green-
you may want to keep it with other
house Association, a strong supporter of
important papers. The certificate also
the Centennial Tree Program.
insures that your trees are counted toward
the decade goal of 100,000,000 trees.
COST SHARING:
Tree costs generally depend on size.
Ask for this registration certificate when
Mountain Ash
Small seedlings can cost less than $1.
you purchase trees. If they don't have it,
Larger, balled and burlaped trees can be
that outlet is not participating in the
priced over $200. Look for special sales
Centennial Tree Program and your
and reduced prices for Centennial
purchases won't be counted.
plantings.
RESOURCE PEOPLE:
NORTH DAKOTA
Talk to local tree experts about your
plantings. The city forester, or your
CENTE
TREE
nursery owner or manager will be eager
REGIST
ON
to provide planning and planting
suggestions. Later they will be a good
This certificate of registra in
our plantings are counted
source of information about care and
toward the 10 year goal
00
the state centennial.
Your plantings are a las
orth Dakota Centennial.
culture to insure proper growth.
100m
Thank you,
NORTH
CENTERNAL
Name of Tree Purchaser
Purchased at
Date Planted
NORTH
Tree Species
Sponsured by North Dakota Nursery and Greenhouse Aven idion North Dakota internal two which
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Plantings By Individuals
Centennial Tree Planter
D
ESCRIPTION: Any individual who
RECOGNITION:
hand plants 100 trees and/or
A colorful 8" by 10" certificate is issued
shrubs in one season earns the distinction
to each Centennial Tree Planter by the
Centennial Tree Planter.
North Dakota Centennial Commission.
The planting may take place in conjunc-
This personalized momento, carrying the
official Centennial logo, is ready for
tion with community or organization
tree planting projects, or it may be on
framing.
private property. Hand planting 100
To receive this handsome reminder of
trees is a significant and symbolic
an outstanding, single year contribution
contribution to the Centennial Trees
to the Centennial Tree Program write to
Program.
the address below. Please provide the
location, date(s) and quantity of trees
and/or shrubs planted, and the correct
name spelling of each Centennial Tree
Planter. You will receive the certificate
by return mail along with a thank you
letter from the North Dakota
Centennial Commission.
Centennial Tree Planter
North Dakota Centennial Commission
2204 East Broadway
Bismarck, ND 58501
State of North Dakota
Centennial Commission
Certificate of Recognition
E.L. "Buck" Worthington
Centennial Tree Planter
Georg a Senna Arthur a.Link
NORTH
DAKOTA
Secretary Ben Muir
CENT ENNIAL
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Tree Planting Reference Information
Centennial Decade Trees Committee
The Coordinating Council
T
he coordinating council for the
Larry Kotchman, State Forester
Centennial Tree Program is
701-228-2277, ext. 290
known as the Centennial Decade Tree
North Dakota Forest Service
Committee. More information, printed
First and Brander
materials, applications and other forms
Bottineau, ND 58318
of assistance can be obtained by
contacting the professional staff at these
North Dakota Forest Service
agencies and organizations:
701-228-2287 or 2277, ext. 286
Walter Pasicznyk, Deputy State Forester
First and Brander
Bottineau, ND 58318
North Dakota Association of
Soil Conservation Districts
Gary Puppe, Executive Vice President
Lilac
701-223-8518
Lincoln-Oakes Nurseries
Sharon Clancy, Nurseries Manager
P.O. Box 1601
Bismarck, ND 58502
North Dakota Parks and
Recreation Department
Doug Prchal
701-224-4887
1424 West Century Avenue
Bismarck, ND 58501
North Dakota State Highway Department
Jerry Horner, Maintenance Division
701-224-4443
State Capitol Grounds
Bismarck, ND 58505
North Dakota Game & Fish Department
701-221-6305
Robert L. Morgan
Chief of Habitat Division
100 Bismarck Expressway North
Bismarck, ND 58501
North Dakota Nursery and
Greenhouse Association
Steve Becker-
Lee W. Hinds
701-224-0100
701-223-0672
1400 Airport Road
P.O. Box 2601
Bismarck, ND 58501
Bismarck, ND 58502
North Dakota U.S. Senator Kent Conrad
Mylo Candee
701-258-4648 or 1-800-223-4457
Room 228, Federal Building
220 East Rosser Avenue
Bismarck, ND 58501
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North Dakota Urban Foresters
Hal Gershman, Member
Paul Blumhardt
P.O. Box 1662
701-222-6561
Grand Forks, ND 58201
P.O. Box 5503
NDSU Extension Service
Bismarck, ND 58502-5503
Dr. William Pietsch
John Staley
Box 5437 University Station
701-746-2750
Fargo, ND 58105
P.O. Box 248
Terry Messmer
Grand Forks, ND 58201
Extension Wildlife Specialist
Consulting Forester
Box 5517 University Station
E.L. "Buck" Worthington
Fargo, ND 58105
701-663-5751
701-237-7950
204 4th Street NW
Dr. Ron Smith
Mandan, ND 58554
Extension Horticulturist
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Box 5658 University Station
Project Manager
Fargo, ND 58105
701-250-4242
North Dakota Association of
P.O. Box 1017
Rural Electric Cooperatives
Bismarck, ND 58502
Ann Rowe
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
701-663-6501
Garrison Project
P.O. Box 727
Kevin S. O'Brien
Mandan, ND 58554
701-654-7411
Norwest Bank North Dakota, N.A.
P.O. Box 517
Ronald A. Arndt
Riverdale, ND 58565
701-251-2540
Oahe Project
P.O. Box 2016
Doug McDonald
Jamestown, ND 58401-2016
701-255-0015
North Dakota Health Department
P.O. Box 902
Steven J. Tillotson
Bismarck, ND 58502
701-224-2366
USDA Forest Service
P.O. Box 5520
Joe M. Salinas, Jr.
Bismarck, ND 58502-5520
North Dakota Coordinator
North Dakota Tourism Promotion
1824 N 11th St.
Bismarck, ND 58501
Tracy Potter
701-224-2509
USDA Soil Conservation Service
Liberty Building, State Capitol
Bruce C. Wight, Forester
Bismarck, ND 58505
701-250-4425
P.O. Box 1458
Tribal Forest Managers
Bismarck, ND 58502
Reed B. Johnson
P.O. Box 570
North Dakota Centennial Commission
Belcourt, ND 58316
701-224-2589
Ed Hall
2204 East Broadway
P.O. Box 220
Bismarck, ND 58501
New Town, ND 58763
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Where To Turn For Help
Tree Planting Professionals
North Dakota Forest Service
Molberg Center
First and Brander
Bottineau, ND 58318
(701) 228-2278 or 2277
T
he North Dakota Forest Service is
The tree stock is sold to the Soil
the state agency which administers
Conservation Districts (SCD's), North
forestry programs statewide through a
Dakota Forest Service district offices,
network of five forestry districts. The
and to private customers. The tree
agency provides technical assistance
seedlings may be used for reforestation,
relating to the management of private
erosion control (windbreaks and
forest lands and urban trees within cities
shelterbelts), Christmas trees and
and communities. The agency also owns
wildlife plantings. The trees may not be
Rocky Mountain Juniper
and manages approximately 13,278 acres
planted for ornamental purposes.
of state forest lands.
Private landowners may obtain technical
The North Dakota Forest Service
assistance, tree seedlings and machine
operates a forest tree nursery at Towner
planting services from North Dakota
specializing in the production of conifer
Forest Service District offices. District
(evergreen) tree stock. The current
foresters will provide on-farm advice for
annual production is approximately 1.2
establishing multi-row block plantings of
million tree seedlings covering 160 acres
trees for eventual harvest of wood
of land. The Towner nursery is North
products, wildlife habitat or environ-
Dakota's only producer of conifer
mental improvements. Charges are made
seedlings.
for trees and planting service.
District I
North Central District Forester
Box 21A, Forestry Drive
Bottineau, North Dakota 58318
Telephone: 228-3700
District II
Northeast District Forester
Route 1 Box 1
Walhalla,North Dakota 58282
Telephone: 549-2441
District III
Southeast District Forester
Box 604
Lisbon, North Dakota 58054
Telephone: 683-4323
District IV
South Central District Forester
1303 East Central
Bismarck, North Dakota 58501
Telephone: 224-4414
District V
Southwest District Forester (VACANT)
Dickinson, North Dakota 58601
(Contact South Central District for assistance)
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Other Related Offices
Red River Forester
The Case Plaza Center
Suite 232
1 - 2nd Street North
Fargo, North Dakota 58102
Telephone: 232-3242
Towner State Nursery
SR 2 Box 13
Towner, North Dakota 58788
Telephone: 537-5636
Urban Forester
Carrington Research & Extension Center
P.O. Box 219
Carrington, North Dakota 58421
Telephone: 652-2951
Federal financial assistance is available
Other related cooperative forestry
for tree plantings designed by the North
programs administered by the North
Dakota Forest Service. Information may
Dakota Forest Service include rural
be obtained by contacting the county
community fire control, urban and
Agricultural Stabilization and Conserva-
community forestry assistance, the North
tion Service office (ASCS) or district
Dakota Woodland Tax Law and private
forester.
woodland management services.
North Dakota Forest Service Brochures
Title
Number
Date
"Towner State Nursery"
1100-2
March 1987
"How to Hand Plant Trees"
1100-3
March 1987
"Tree Order Form - 1988"
-
Current Season
"ND's Woodland Tax Law"
0300-3
January 1985
"Forest Tree Plantations"
0300-5
February 1986
"Woodland Management Assistance"
0300-6
August 1986
"Firewood Plantations"
0300-7
September 1987
"A Guide to Arbor Day"
0300-8
February 1987
"Tree Farming in ND"
-
March 1985
"Common Trees and Shrubs of ND"
EB-38
March 1985
"Shelterbelt Renovation"
0300-2
October 1983
"Pruning Trees"
0300-1*
July 1983
"Topping vs. Pruning"
0700-1
January 1984
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North Dakota Association of Soil
In addition to membership services, the
Conservation Districts
NDASCD produces and supplies
Lincoln-Oakes Nurseries
nursery products to the soil conservation
P.O. Box 1601
districts of North Dakota.
Bismarck, ND 58502
223-8518 / 223-8575
Soil Conservation Districts (SCD's) are
governmental units of the State of North
The North Dakota Association of Soil
Dakota organized to provide for the
Conservation Districts (NDASCD) is a
conservation of the soil and water
membership organization of the
resources. Each SCD has the ability to
supervisors of the 62 North Dakota soil
plan, design, recommend species, secure
conservation districts.
and plant tree and shrub seedlings for
The mission of the NDASCD is to
soil conservation purposes.
disseminate information and promote
Arborvitae
Since 1937 the North Dakota soil
cooperation between soil conservation
conservation districts have planted over
districts; cooperate with state and federal
215,000,000 trees.
agencies; promote the welfare of soil
conservation districts; promote the con-
servation of soil and water resources and
assume active leadership in promoting
conservation education in the state.
North Dakota Soil Conservation District Offices
Adams County SCD, Box 872,
Divide County SCD, P.O. Box 66,
Kidder County SCD, RR 1, Box 74,
Hettinger, ND 58639, 567-2661
Crosby, ND 58730, 965-6491
Steele, ND 58482, 475-2581
Barnes County SCD, 202 S. Central
Dunn County SCD, Box 359, Killdeer,
East LaMoure County SCD, P.O. Box
Ave., Valley City, ND 58072, 845-3114
ND 58640, 764-5363
278, LaMoure, ND 58458, 883-5781
North Central (Benson Co.) SCD, Box
Eddy County SCD, 828 1st Ave. S.,
West LaMoure SCD, Box 215, Edgeley,
158, Minnewaukan, ND 58351, 473-5764
New Rockford, ND 58356, 947-2436
-ND 58433, 493-2434
Mouse River (Bottineau Co.) SCD, P.O.
Emmons County SCD, P.O. Box 818,
Logan County SCD, Box 240, Napoleon,
Box 325, Westhope, ND 58793,
Linton, ND 58552, 254-4653
ND 58561, 754-2521
245-6151
Foster County SCD, Rte 1, Box 33E,
North McHenry County SCD, Box 299,
Turtle Mountain (Bottineau Co.) SCD,
Carrington, ND 58421, 652-2551
Towner, ND 58788, 537-5138
117 W. 5th St., Bottineau, ND 58318,
Golden Valley SCD, P.O. Box 366,
McHenry County SCD, Box 155,
228-3016
Beach, ND 58621, 872-4551
Velva, ND 58790, 338-2065
Bowman-Slope SCD, Box 256, Bowman,
Eastern Grand Forks County SCD,
McIntosh County SCD, Box M, Ashley,
ND 58623, 523-3163
Federal Building, Rm 134, 102 N. 4th
ND 58413, 288-3569
Burke SCD, Box 336, Bowbells, ND
St., Grand Forks, ND 58201, 772-2321
Arnegard-Alexander (McKenzie Co.)
58721, 377-2831
Western Grand Forks County SCD, P.O.
SCD, P.O. Box 583, Watford City, ND
Burleigh County SCD, 1824 N. 11th St.,
Box I, Larimore, ND 58251, 343-2403
58854, 842-3628
Bismarck, ND 58501, 255-4011 ext. 518
Grant County SCD, P.O. Box 257,
Lower Yellowstone (McKenzie Co.)
Cass County SCD, 600 W. Main, River-
Carson, ND 58529, 622-3381
SCD, Box 365, Fairview, MT 59221,
side, West Fargo, ND 58078, 282-2147
Griggs County SCD, P.O. Box 526,
(406) 747-5646
Cavalier County SCD, 901 3rd St.,
Cooperstown, ND 58425, 797-3644
South McLean County SCD, Box 537,
Langdon, ND 58249, 256-2484
Slope-Hettinger SCD, Box 250, New
Turtle Lake, ND 58575, 448-2377
James River (Dickey Co.) SCD, Box
England, ND 58647, 579-4560
West McLean County SCD, P.O. Box
533, Oakes, ND 58474, 742-2155
598, Garrison, ND 58540, 463-2851
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Mercer County SCD, P.O. Box 466,
Sheridan County SCD, P.O. Box 66,
Hazen, ND 58545, 748-2101
McClusky, ND 58463, 363-2252
Morton County SCD, 800 Boundary
Cedar (Sioux Co.) SCD, Box 47,
Road NW, Mandan, ND 58554, 667-
Selfridge, ND 58568, 422-3332
1206
Central Stark County SCD, 664 12th St.
Fort Berthold (Mountrail Co.) SCD,
W, Dickinson, ND 58601, 225-3811
P.O. Box 550, New Town, ND 58763,
Western Stark County SCD, 664 12th
627-3445
St. W, Dickinson, ND 58601, 225-3811
North Mountrail SCD, Box 355, Stanley,
Steele County SCD, P.O. Box 336,
ND 58784, 628-2151
Finley, ND 58230, 524-2851
Nelson County SCD, Box 276, Lakota,
Stutsman County SCD, 1726 6th Ave.
ND 58344, 247-2514
SW, Jamestown, ND 58401, 252-2521
Oliver SCD, Box 87, Center, ND 58530,
Towner County SCD, RR 1, Box 11-H,
794-3215
Cando, ND 58324, 968-4457
Pembina County SCD, P.O. Box 476,
East Trail SCD, RR 2, Box C16,
Cavalier, ND 58220, 265-3131
Hillsboro, ND 58045, 436-4311
Pierce County SCD, 406 3rd Ave. SW,
West Trail SCD, 17 First St. NE,
Rugby, ND 58368, 776-2207
Mayville, ND 58257, 786-2561
Ramsey County SCD, 103 College Drive,
Three Rivers (Walsh Co.) SCD, 506
Devils Lake, ND 58301, 662-4088
Griggs Ave., Rm 200, Grafton, ND
Ransom County SCD, Box 431, Lisbon,
58237, 352-0740
ND 58054, 683-4531
Walsh County SCD, Box G, Park River,
Renville County SCD, P.O. Box 547,
ND 58270, 284-7466
Mohall, ND 58761, 756-6138
Ward SCD, 408 20th Ave SW, Minot,
Richland SCD, 1687 Bypass Road,
ND 58701, 852-5438
Wahpeton, ND 58075, 642-6393
Wells County SCD, Box 188, Fessenden,
Rolette County SCD, Box 67, Rolette,
ND 58438, 547-3622
ND 58366, 246-3231
Williams County SCD, 104 Main,
Wild Rice (Sargent Co.) SCD, RR 1,
Williston, ND 58801, 572-9651
Box 5, Forman, ND 58032, 724-3247
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USDA Soil Conservation Service
specialists who help people understand
Rosser Avenue and Third St.
and protect their land. The SCS staff
P.O. Box 1458
includes soil conservationists, soil
Bismarck, ND 58502
scientists, agronomists, range conserva-
(701) 250-4425
tionists, foresters, biologists, engineers,
The Soil Conservation Service (SCS)
plant materials specialists, economists
helps individuals, groups, organizations,
and several other disciplines.
cities and towns, and county and state
SCS focuses its assistance on nonfederal
governments reduce the costly waste of
land. Land users get help from SCS
land and water resources and put to
mainly through the 62 soil conservation
good use these state assets. The SCS
districts in North Dakota. There are SCS
mission covers three major areas: soil
personnel in every county in North
and water conservation, natural resource
Dakota. At the district level, SCS soil
Hawthorn
surveys, and community resource
conservationists provide onsite assistance
protection and development. The help
to solve specific problems of land users.
SCS provides is technical and in some
Included in this onsite assistance is
cases financial, and it is guided by
habitat, controlling snow deposition, and
conservation objectives and priorities
planning of all types of windbreaks and
reducing the amount of energy needed
developed cooperatively among USDA,
tree plantings for wildlife habitat. SCS
to heat or cool buildings. Assistance is
SCS and other concerned local and state
helps land users design, plant, and
also provided for designing living snow
agencies and organizations.
manage windbreaks to get the optimum
fences to protect roads and highways.
benefits of controlling wind erosion,
Financial assistance is available for these
To carry out its mission, SCS has a
protecting farmsteads and making them
tree plantings through the cost-sharing
nationwide network of conservation
more attractive, providing wildlife
programs described previously.
USDA Agricultural Stabilization
farmers the costs of installing needed
In addition to ACP, the Conservation
& Conservation Service
soil, water, woodland, and wildlife
Reserve Program (CRP) was established
657 2nd Avenue North
conserving practices.
in 1985. The objective of this program is
P.O. Box 3046
The Agricultural Conservation Program
to take highly erodible land out of crop
Fargo, ND 58108
(ACP) provides cost-share assistance to
production and establish a permanent
(701) 237-5771 Ext. 5205
farmers and ranchers for various conser-
cover of grass or trees on this land. The
The Agricultural Stabilization and
vation practices including tree plantings
farmers and ranchers participating, sign a
Conservation Service (ASCS) is
to prevent erosion or pollution of our
ten year contract to retire the land and
responsible for a wide variety of action
soil, water and air, to help protect our
are paid an annual rent for each acre
programs of USDA in its relations with
wildlife, to promote timber production
retired. They also receive cost-share
the farmer and the agriculture industry.
and to preserve and improve our
assistance to seed grass or plant trees.
Its programs are in the general field of
environment. The ACP is administered
Field windbreaks, wildlife tree plantings
production adjustment, conservation
by county ASCS committees with offices
and forest plantations are all eligible
assistance, price, farm income and market
in every North Dakota county. The
under this program.
stabilization. Some of the principal
county ASCS committees encourage
activities of ASCS include price support
farmers and ranchers to plant trees by
which includes commodity loans,
informing them of the cost-share
production adjustment such as diversion
assistance available.
programs, disaster relief, management of
Commodity Credit Corporation inven-
tories and conservation and land use
adjustment assistance. These are carried
out through sharing with individual
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The North Dakota Game and
The North Dakota Game and Fish
Fish Department
Department is now offering the same
Woody Cover Habitat Development
cost-share to landowners establishing
by
wildlife tree plantings (CP-4) on their
Robert L. Morgan, Chief,
land under the Conservation Reserve
Habitat Division
Program (CRP). Funding for this project
is also derived from the Private Land
Our mission in tree planting is to
Habitat Improvement Fund (Interest
improve woody wildlife habitat on
Money Program).
private and public lands.
The North Dakota Game and Fish
The Department has planted some
1,611,000 trees and shrubs on 2,418
Department purchased and furnished
acres on State Wildlife Management
the planting stock and paid Soil Conser-
vation Districts (SCD's) to plant some
Areas during the 1951-1987 period.
With the 14,730 acres of trees and
12,519,000 trees and shrubs in 3,423
woody wildlife winter cover (15 rows
shrubs planted on private lands during
plus) tree plantings on 14,730 acres of
the 1951-1967 woody winter cover
private lands during the 1951-1967
planting program, the total acreage that
period.
the Department has been directly
involved in for wildlife tree planting
The Department's winter cover tree
since 1951 is 17,148 acres. This
planting program on private lands was
represents an area of land approximately
phased out with the 1967 tree planting
4½ miles wide by 6 miles long. We have
season, as 80% federal cost-share was
no figures for acres we may have affected
made available to those persons who
by the cost-share programs.
wanted to plant a wildlife tree planting
through the Agricultural Conservation
The Department has plans for at least
Program (ACP) administered by the
two Centennial Forests (25 acres plus)
Agricultural Stabilization and Conserva-
and several Centennial Woods plantings
tion Program (ASCS). Technical
(10 acres plus) on State WMA's during
the Centennial decade. We intend to
assistance to landowners was available
from Soil Conservation Service
continue the cost-share programs and
personnel located at local SCD's and
offer technical assistance to encourage
from our Department.
wildlife tree plantings on private lands.
Passage of House Bill 1197 by the 1979
We encourage public participation in
Legislature set up the Private Land
planting trees and shrubs on State
Habitat Improvement and Deer
Wildlife Management Areas. Proposals
Depredation Fund starting with the
to improve woody habitats on these
1979-81 biennium ($650,000). One of
public areas are welcomed. Please
the earliest actions taken by the
contact us, if you have an idea for any
Department was to allocate provided
woody planting on a State WMA during
the Centennial Decade.
funds to cost-share with private
landowners for the ACP Wildlife
Practices, which includes Practice WL-1,
Permanent Woody Wildlife Habitat.
Thus beginning with the 1980 spring
tree planting season, the Department
was once again financially assisting any
farmer, rancher, or other private
landowner who wanted to establish
woody wildlife habitat on their lands.
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USDA-Forest Service
Service and the North Dakota Forest
North Dakota Coordinator
Service. The experimental forest also
1824 North 11th St.
provides nearly all of the conifer seeds
Bismarck, ND 58501
for the North Dakota Forest Service
(701) 255-4011
nursery. The nursery, in turn, provides
The mission of the USDA-Forest
all of the coniferous seedlings for
Service is "Caring for the land and
shelterbelt plantings in North Dakota
serving the public."
and part of the seedlings for neighboring
states of Montana, South Dakota and
In the state of North Dakota, the
Minnesota.
USDA-Forest Service is responsible for
the administration of the Denbigh
Traditional USDA-Forest Service tree
Experimental Forest and three National
planting does not occur on the National
Grasslands, the Little Missouri,
Grasslands. However, shrubs and tree
Russian Olive
Sheyenne and Cedar River. The total
planting for erosion control, soil stabili-
acreage of these public lands is 1.2
zation, and wildlife habitat improvement
million acres.
is part of the overall management of the
grasslands. Greater emphasis is on
In 1931 the Denbigh Experimental
planting for conservation management,
Forest was established on 636 acres
along with providing seed from the
However, not all cities employ urban
located 32 miles east of Minot. Its
Denbigh Experimental Forest are part of
foresters, and the degree of management
purpose was to determine which trees
the USDA-Forest Service commitment to
responsibility varies among those that
would grow best for shelterbelt planting
North Dakota's Centennial Tree Program.
do. Some urban foresters are responsible
on the northern Great Plains. Other
for boulevard trees only, while other
objectives included finding the best
North Dakota's Urban Foresters
manage both city and park trees.
management practices for site prepara-
tion, planting and caring for seedlings for
Urban foresters are the professional
For cities without urban foresters the
shelterbelt uses.
managers of public trees in North
North Dakota Forest Service offers the
Dakota cities. As a rule, an urban
services of an urban forestry specialist.
Presently, genetics research for tree
forester is the best local source of
The office is located at the North
improvement is carried out cooperatively
information and advice about trees and
Dakota State University Research
with the USDA-Agriculture Research
tree planting in a city.
Extension Center at Carrington.
City Name
Contact Person
Bismarck
Paul Blumhàrdt
Devils Lake
Glenn Olson
City Forester
City Engineer
P.O. Box 5503
423 6th Street
Bismarck, ND 58502-5503
Devils Lake, ND 58301
Phone: 222-6561
Phone: 662-4098
Bottineau
Chris Carlson
Dickinson
Craig Armstrong, City Forester
City Forester
Dickinson Park District
306 10th St. East
P.O. Box 548
Bottineau, ND 58318
Dickinson, ND 58601
Phone: 228-2640
Phone: 225-2074
Cando
Terry Harland
Fargo
John Wesolowski
Street Superintendent
City Forester
Box 117
402 N. 23rd Street
Cando, ND 58324
Fargo, ND 58102
Phone: 968-3030
Phone: 241-1465
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Grand Forks John Staley
Mandan
Terry Schmidt
City Forester
City Forester
P.O. Box 248
Box 365
Grand Forks, ND 58201
Mandan, ND 58554
Phone: 746-2750
Phone: 667-3239
Hazen
Paul Weiser
Northwood
Robert Deutsch
City Forester
City Forester
Box 366
111 1st Ave.
Hazen, ND 58545
Northwood, ND 58267
Phone: 748-2970
Phone: 587-6010
Hope James D. Corlett
Valley City
Lester DeKrey
Tree Board Chairman
City Forester
Hope, ND 58046
220 NE 3
Phone: 945-2397
Valley City, ND 58072
Phone: 845-1700
Jamestown
Jeff Heintz
City Forester
Wahpeton
Wayne Beyer, Director
203 1st St. West
Parks & Recreation
Jamestown, ND 58401
City Hall
Wahpeton, ND 58075
Kensal Wendell Simonsen, Mayor
Phone: 642-2811
Route 1, Box 38
Kensal, ND 58455
West Fargo
Richard Fuller
Phone: 435-2851
City Forester
102 First Street
LaMoure Gene Smith
West Fargo, ND 58078
City Auditor
Phone: 282-8088
Box 68
LaMoure, ND 58548
Williston
Dale Gaasland
Phone: 883-5957
City Forester
P.O. Box 2437
Langdon Alvin Carlson
Williston, ND 58802-2437
City Superintendent
Phone: 572-6368
1123 17th Ave.
Langdon, ND 58049
Phone: 256-3747
Linton Frank Hobbs
City Forester
P.O. Box 715
Linton, ND 58552
Phone: 254-4250
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North Dakota Parks and
offered by the parks. An Arbor Day
Recreation Department
planting takes place-every year in each
1424 West Century Avenue #202
park. One park is highlighted by the
Bismarck, ND 58501
media each year. Also, one weekend in
(701) 224-4887
the month of June is identified as Family
The North Dakota Parks and Recreation
Day, and that weekend involves
Department has an ongoing tree planting
Centennial Tree planting activities.
program within each of the state parks
for both replacement and new plantings.
Matching Grants for Outdoor
Recreation
Efforts are underway to plant additional
The North Dakota Parks and Recreation
trees and shrubs, within budget
capabilities, over the centennial decade.
Department administers a 50% grant
Each of the parks along Lake Sakakawea
program for improving outdoor
recreation areas. Recipients must be
Elder
will attempt to create one or more
Centennnial Woods plantings. The park
political subdivisions, i.e. cities, counties,
system goal for the decade is 300,000
park boards, school districts, etc. Tree
trees.
planting, as a part of an overall parks
improvement program, is an eligible use
each year. Questions should be directed
Planting Events at Parks
of these grants. Some restrictions apply.
to the Outdoor Recreation Coordinator
Two special event planting programs are
Pre-applications are due September 1 of
in the Bismarck office.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
The corps encourages contact from
For information about planting projects
Omaha District
interested groups. Agency specialists
of the Oahe project contact:
Lake Manager
design plantings, order tree stock and
Doug McDonald
P.O. Box 517
arrange for planting.
701-255-0015
Riverdale, ND 58565
P.O. Box 902
701-654-7411
Trees are planted by contract or with the
use of volunteers. A major emphasis is
Bismarck, ND 58502
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is a
public involvement and participation.
major tree planting agency of the federal
The Corps of Engineers provides land
government in North Dakota. The Corps
and tree seedlings to any group that is
fully supports the centennial decade
interested in planting trees on public
trees project as a worthwhile program to
land. Schools, scouts, service clubs,
celebrate North Dakota's centennial and
sporting clubs, churches, communities
as way to make North Dakota an even
etc., are encouraged to adopt a tree
better place to live.
planting area. Groups are encouraged to
The Corps of Engineers joins the
plan for 10 year tree planting projects.
Centennial Tree Program with the idea
Project areas are designated with
of enhancing the public lands of Lake
centennial signs identifying sponsoring
Sakakawea, Lake Oahe, Pipestem and
groups.
Bowman-Haley projects. A wide variety
Contracts with the Three Affiliated
of plantings are offered including block
Tribes and the Standing Rock Sioux
planting for wildlife, park plantings for
Tribe established tree planting on Corps
recreation, plantings to delineate the
of Engineers land within the reservation
project boundary, and shoreline
boundaries.
plantings to stabilize the shoreline and
improve aesthetics.
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U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
herbicide applied to adjacent crops by
Project Manager
landowners. Placement is such that
701-250-4242
private land and open roads will not be
P.O. Box 1017
impacted by snow during the winter.
Bismarck, ND 58502
Areas selected are west of Highway 14
and above the 1620-foot elevation to
60The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
the east.
anticipates planting several hundred acres
of trees annually as part of the Lonetree
In 1986, 25 acres were planted to woody
development and management plan.
cover. In 1988, 40 acres were planted. In
Trees and shrubs are planted throughout
1989, 235 acres will be planted and up
the Lonetree area to benefit wildlife,
to 300 acres per year for the subsequent
providing mitigation credit is given.
years depending on project mitigation
Block planting of the 5 to 10 acre size
needs. Tree planting and maintenance
are recommended, or multi-row belts
are conducted under contract with
adjacent to or connecting existing
private firms. Maintenance will be for a
woody habitat. Plantings are located far
minimum of 5 years, if required, on each
enough from the Lonetree boundary and
planting.
roads to prevent damage to trees from
Friends In The Field
North Dakota Tree Planting Committees & Associations
North Dakota Farm Forestry Committee
North Dakota Society of American
North Dakota Christmas Tree
Paul Blumhardt, Chairman
Foresters
Growers' Association
P.O. Box 1578
John Staley, Chairman
Route 1, Box 1
Bismarck, ND 58502
P.O. Box 248
Walhalla, ND 58282
Grand Forks, ND 58201
North Dakota Urban and Community
Forestry Association (NDUCFA)
P.O. Box 6006
Bismarck, ND 58502
To Learn More
Books about Trees and Tree Planting
"Trees, Prairies, and People -
Learning Activities:
Tree Planting in the Plains States,"
Project Learning Tree is a learning
Trees Are Terrific - National Wildlife
by William Droze (available at ND
activity with tree and forest-related
Federation, Dept. 226, 1412 16th Street
Heritage Center, Bismarck)
activities and crafts for educators of
NW, Washington, DC 20036. Send
"SCS Tree Planting Handbook for
elementary and secondary students. It is
$5.00 for a teacher's guide,
the Dakotas" (available for use in
sponsored by the North Dakota Forest
district SCS offices)
Service and the North Dakota Chapter
of the American Society of Foresters.
"Trees and Shrubs for Northern
Contact: John Van Ells, State
Gardens" by Leon Snyder
Coordinator, Molberg Forestry Center,
"Trees and Shrubs of the Northern
First & Brander, Bottineau, ND 58318.
Plains" by Donald Hoag
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Friends Around The Country
National Committees & Organizations
National Arbor Day Foundation
National Woodland Owners Association
100 Arbor Avenue
374 Maple Avenue E., Suite 210
Nebraska City, NE 68410
Vienna, VA 22180
National Association of State Foresters
National Christmas Tree Association
444 North Capitol St.
611 E. Wells Street
Washington, DC 20001
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Society of American Foresters
Society of Municipal Arborists
5400 Grosvenor Lane
Dale Gassland, Secretary/Treasurer
Bethesda, MD 20814
R.R. 3, Box 614
American Forestry Association
Williston, ND 58801
P.O. Box 2000
(774-0485)
Washington, DC 20013
International Society of Arboriculture
Crabapple
(202) 667-3300
William Kruidenier
American Forest Council
Executive Director
1250 Connecticut Avenue NW
P.O. Box 71
Suite 320
Urbana, IL 61801
Washington, DC 20036
(217) 328-2032
Seeing Is Believing
Films About Trees
North Dakota State Film Library
(701) 237-8907
Division of Independent Study
State University Station, Box 5036
1510 12th Avenue North
Fargo, ND 58105
"Heritage Restored"
14 min. 1962
"Forests In Balance-A Fight Againt Time"
30 min. 1982
"Life and Death of a Tree"
20 min. 1980
"Man in Green"
29 min. 1970
"The National Arboretum"
14 min. 1969
"New Man in the Forest"
26 min. 1970
"Planting and Transplanting"
21 min. 1969
"The President Plants a Tree"
7 min. 1957
"Pruning Practices"
21 min. 1966
"Roots of the Nation"
28 min. 1976
"Tree and Shrub Planting"
15 min. 1972
"Tree is a Living Thing"
11 min. 1965
"Trees: How to Know Them"
14 min. 1970
"Trees: The Biggest and Oldest Living Things"
17 min. 1982
"Trees: Their Flowers and Seeds"
11 min. 1969
"Trees and Their Importance"
12 min. 1966
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Selected Bibliography
Reference Books:
"America's Wild Woodlands" edited
"Hug a Tree and Other Things to
"Master Tree Finder" by May T.
by Donald J. Crump et al. (National
do Outdoors With Young Children"
Watts (Nature Study Guild) 1963.
Geographic Society) 1985.
by Robert Rockwell, Elizabeth Sherwood
"The Quiet Crisis" by Stewart Udall
"Audubon Society Nature Guides:
and Robert Williams (Gryphon House,
(Holt, Rinehart and Winston) 1963.
Eastern Forests" by Ann and Myron
Inc. Publishers) 1983.
"Sharing Nature With Children" by
Sutton (Alfred A. Knopf) 1985.
"The Illustrated Encyclopedia of
Joseph Bharat Cornell (Ananda
"Audubon Society Nature Guides:
Trees, Timbers, and Forests of the
Publications) 1979.
Western Forests" by Stephen Whitney
World" by Herbert Edlin, Maurice
"Spotter's Guide to Trees of North
(Alfred A. Knopf) 1985
Nimmo, et al. (Harmony Books) 1978.
America" by Alan Mitchell (Usborne
"Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs"
"The International Book of the
Publishing) 1979.
by George A. Petrides (Houghton
Forest edited" by Dr. Maurice Burton
"Trees" by Lawrence C. Walker
Mifflin) 1972.
et al. (Mitchell Beazley Publishers) 1981.
(Prentice Hall) 1984.
"Forest" by Jake Page and the editors
"The International Book of Trees"
"Trees for American Gardens" by
of Time-Life Books (Time-Life Books)
by Hugh Johnson (Simon and Schuster)
Donald Wyman (MacMillan Co.) 1965.
1983.
1973.
"Trees of North America" by C.
"The Forest" (2nd rev. ed.) by Peter
"J. Sterling Morton" by James C.
Frank Brockman (Golden Press) 1979.
Farb and the editors of Time-Life Books
Olson (University of Nebraska Press) 1942.
"Trees of North America" by Roger
(Time-Life Books) 1980.
"The Life of the Forest" by Jack
Phillips (Random House, Inc.) 1978.
"The Great American Forest" by
McCormick (McGraw-Hill) 1966.
"The Winter Tree Finder" by May
Rutherford Platt (Prentice-Hall) 1971.
"The Living Forest" by Jack
T. Watts (Nature Study Guild) 1970.
McCormick (Harper) 1966.
"The Woodland Steward" by James
R. Fazio (The Woodlands Press) 1985.
Children's Books:
"Apples - How They Grow" by Bruce
"Have You Seen Trees?" by Joanne
"See Through The Forest" by
McMillan (Houghton Mifflin) 1979.
Oppenheim (Young Scott Books) 1967.
Millicent E. Selsam (Harper) 1956.
"Big Tree" by Mary and Conrad Buff
"It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown" by
"Sugaring Time" by Kathyrn Lasky
(Viking) 1946.
Charles M. Schulz (Random House) 1977.
(MacMillan Co.) 1983.
"Birth of a Forest" by Millicent E.
"J. Sterling Morton: Arbor Day
"This Is the Forest" by Edith Thacher
Selsam (Harper) 1964.
Boy" by Clyde B. Moore (The Bobbs-
Hurd (Coward, McCann and
"The Blossom on the Bough" by
Merrill Company, Inc.) 1962.
Geoghegan, Inc.) 1969.
Anne Ophelia Dowden (Thomas Y.
"Lives of an Oak Tree" by Ross E.
"This Is a Leaf" by Ross E. Hutchins
Crowell Co.) 1975.
Hutchins (Rand McNally and Co.) 1962.
(Dodd, Mead) 1962.
"A Closer Look at Jungles" by Joyce
"The Lorax" by Theodor Geisel (Dr.
"This Is a Tree" by Ross E. Hutchins
Pope (Gloucester Press) 1978.
Seuss) (Random House) 1971.
(Dodd, Mead) 1964.
"Exploring City Trees" by Margaret
"Maple Tree" by Edith Thatcher
"A Tree Called Moses" by Laura
J. Anderson (McGraw-Hill) 1976.
(Morrow) 1968.
Nelson Baker (Atheneum) 1966.
"The Fall of Freddie the Leaf" by
"Maypoles and Wood Demons" by
"Tree Flowers" by Millicent E. Selsam
Leo Buscaglia, Ph.D. (Charles B. Slack)
Elizabeth S. Helfman (The Seabury
(Morrow) 1968.
1982.
Press) 1972.
"A Tree Grows Up" by Jean M.
"A First Look at Leaves" by Millicent
"Oak & Company" by Richard Mabey
Guilcher and R.H. Noailles (Sterling) 1972.
E. Selsam and Joyce Hunt (Walker) 1972.
(Greenwillow Books) 1983.
"A Tree Is Born" by Jean M. Guilcher
"Flower Fairies of the Woodland"
"Once There Was a Tree" by Phyllis
and R.H. Noailles (Sterling) 1960.
by Cicely Mary Barker (Blackie and
S. Busch (Scholasatic Book Services) 1968.
"A Tree Is a Plant" by Clyde R. Bulla
Son) 1984.
"Play with Trees" by Millicent E.
(Thomas Y. Crowell Co.) 1960.
"Forest Log" by James R. Newton
Selsam (Morrow) 1950.
"A Tree Is Nice" by Janice May Udry
(Thomas Y. Crowell Co.) 1980.
"Secret Places" by D.J. Arneson
(Harper and Row) 1956.
"The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein
(Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.) 1971.
(Harper and Row) 1964.
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NORTH DAKOTA CENTENNIAL COMMISSION MEMBERS
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Chairperson
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Bismarck
Former Governor
Bismarck
Mr. William C. Kelsch
Mr. Larry Schneider
Mandan
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Vice Chairperson
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Williston
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Tourism Promotion Director
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Mr. Lloyd Omdahl
Bismarck
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Ms. Sher L. Quaday
Mr. Harold A. (Hal) Gershman
Lieutenant Governor
Fargo
Grand Forks
Bismarck
May 14, 1989-Founders Day-Dickinson, New Rockford
This marks the date delegates were elected to the first North Dakota Constitutional Convention, a
prerequisite for statehood. Historical speeches, skits, a music show about "Motherhood and
1889
1989
Apple Pie," an antique quilts display, walking tours of historic sites and the playing of old-
fashioned games bring our history to life. Our strong religious foundations are celebrated in
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GENTENNIAL
July 4, 1989-Constitution Day-Bismarck, Mandan
In 1889 the first North Dakota Constitutional Convention opened on this date. The year's celebration
in 1989 features entertainment from two centuries: the National Folk Life Festival with ethnic
arts, crafts, foods and dances; an all-day extravaganza with popular, big-name entertainment on the
state capitol grounds; the Art in the Park exhibit and sale; the Official Centennial Parade with
hundreds of entries; rodeos drawing the world's top cowboys and cowgirls; and wagon trains from
across the state converging on the capitol city. *224-2589
October 1, 1989-Citizens Day-Minot
Voters approved the North Dakota Constitution and elected the state's first office holders on this date
in 1889. A century later we will honor outstanding citizens with "Perspectives From the Past: A
Forum of Notable North Dakotans," a reception for Sons and Daughters of the Pioneers, an
historical documents exhibit, and a concert. *852-6000
Nov. 2, 1989-Statehood Day-Bismarck
The dreams of thousands became reality in 1889 when President Benjamin Harrison signed North
Dakota's statehood proclamation. Marking our 100th anniversary, a Centennial Showcase of projects
funded in part by Centennial Commission matching grants features exhibits and displays, musical,
dance and dramatic performances, and film and video productions. *1-800-732-2422, Ext. 155.
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North Dakota Centennial
SPECIAL DAYS CELEBRATIONS
In 1889 significant events led to North Dakota's statehood. In our centennial year
the cities listed below will host celebrations on the 100th anniversary of those
key events. In this way all North Dakotans and visitors can be connected to our
past and glimpse the potential in our future.
Nov. 2, 1988-Statehood Day-Fargo
The 99th anniversary of the day North Dakota was admitted to the union-the official beginning of
our year-long centennial celebration-starts with an elegant Grand Ball, a video history production
and program titled "North Dakota: The First 100 Years" and a televised "Centennathon" fund-
raising auction featuring the state's most talented entertainers. *1-800-732-2422, Ext. 155
Feb. 22, 1989-Government Day-Bismarck
Carving states out of Dakota Territory was a long time in coming until President Grover Cleveland
signed the enabling act on this date in 1889. Emphasizing the role of government in our lives today is
an open house for state agencies to show off their centennial projects, an ethnic groups presenta-
tion of our Constitution to the state legislature and a symposium titled "Into Our Second
Century: The Future for North Dakota" with North Dakota scholars. * 777-2961
April 5, 1989-Native American Day-Grand Forks
This day's colorful festival starts events honoring the state's original inhabitants and their descen-
dants. A special art market will feature Indian artists. Native American athletes will demonstrate
and participate in traditional games. A symposium on the oral traditions in storytelling and
religion will be an entertaining way to learn more about Native Americans. In the state's elementary
and secondary schools a special Native American curriculum will be used on this day. *777-4291
100 YEARS OF STATEHOOD
LASTING LEGACY
T
he land that became Dakota Territory in 1861
was populated for hundreds of years by Native
E
ven these programs, though, couldn't stop drought
and blast furnace winds in the '30s from tearing
T
he events of 1989 will be big, brash and beau-
tiful to celebrate North Dakota's first 100 years.
Americans. Lewis and Clark came up the Missouri
farmers from their land; low farm produce prices
Other projects beginning in 1989 will tie our first
River in 1804, but the 1870 census
drove some people out of
century to our second.
counted only 2,500 whites.
the state. But those who re-
The premier centennial project-citizens plant-
Army fort building and military
mained-the hardy and the
ing 100 MILLION trees before the year 2000-
campaigns against the Indians
foolhardy, the ruggedly in-
will reach into every corner of the state and create
following the Civil War aided the
dependent and the stub-
a living legacy for future generations.
advance of white settlement. The
born-turned North Dakota
Equally impressive is the creation of a gigantic
railroad and the Homestead Act
into the world's bread-
historic quilt in the shape of the state with blocks
brought thousands of Europeans,
basket.
from all 53 counties. The 1989 Guiness Book of
mostly poor folk, searching for
Today our state still pro-
World Records will note this as the world's largest.
land and a new life on the sweeping plains.
duces food for millions. Our honest friendliness draws
To complement the Pioneer Family Statue on the
G
reeted by harsh climate,
families from around the world. Our schools are con-
capitol grounds, a new bronze statue, "Pioneers
STATE
food shortages and op-
sistently ranked among the best in the nation. And our
of the Future," will be cast to depict children, our
OF
pressive loneliness, some
cities have hospitals, churches, universities, hotels,
greatest living resource.
moved back east or went on
retail stores, processing plants and other facilities rival-
The All Veterans Centennial Memorial for
to more forgiving places.
ing those in many, much larger places.
North Dakota service men and women links past,
Those with self-reliance,
courage and enterprise
F
or years North Dakota's oil
present and future. The memorial's location on the
and coal have fueled the
capitol grounds will be a tranquil place to re-
adapted to what nature of-
Midwest states. Recently, near
member those who died in service to their country.
fered and developed a deep
the state's 5,000 years of coal
Also designated for special recognition are hun-
appreciation of the fragile
reserves was built a coal gasifica-
dreds of projects such as building renovations,
beauty and seasonal har-
tion plant unmatched and un-
museum exhibits and centennial parks to spotlight
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TA
mony in their surroundings.
equaled anywhere in the world.
our heritage as we move into our next 100 years.
In 1889 these people
Space-age technology and the
created North Dakota. By the
earth's oldest substances are con-
1920 census the population
nected here by the proud, deter-
had risen to nearly 647,000.
John Miller,
mined, c'mon-in-and-have-a-cup-
First State Governor
of-coffee North Dakotans.
O
utside economic interests were exploiting these
Now it's time for us and our friends to step back and
hardworking, rural folks. In response, these
look at what we've done. We have 100 years of
For more information call one of the following:
proud, independent people started the Non-Partisan
celebrating stored up and we're going to let it all out in
League. This political movement's revolutionary new
1989. Our hair is combed, the grass is cut, the band is
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ideas swept across the agricultural states and into our
warming up in the park. C'mon and join the party!
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nation's capitol. NPL programs from that time still in-
North Dakota Centennial Commission: (701) 224-2589
fluence our state's economic and social structure.
S.F. "Buckshot" Hoffner, Executive Director