Jack Russell Weinstein, host of Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life, joins Main Street to discuss the philosophical aspects of current events.
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Funny, poignant, sentimental, and sometimes controversial thoughts of the day. garrisonkeillor.substack.com
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Listen for interviews with authors, artists, and newsmakers that tell the story of our region. Email us: mainstreet@prairiepublic.org
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Join us each month as we engage in philosophical discussions about the most common-place topics with host Jack Russell Weinstein, professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Dakota. He is the director of The Institute for Philosophy in Public Life.
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Television producer Matt Olien doubles as Prairie Public's resident movie critic, and uses his background in film studies and extensive knowledge of movie history to review a current film. Stay tuned until the end, where he's quizzed with obscure Oscar trivia.
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Plains Folk is a commentary devoted to life on the great plains of North Dakota. Written by Tom Isern of West Fargo, North Dakota, and read in newspapers across the region for years, Plains Folk venerates fall suppers and barn dances and reminds us that "more important to our thoughts than lines on a map are the essential characteristics of the region — the things that tell what the plains are, not just where they are."
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Hosted by Chuck Lura, a biology professor at Dakota College in Bottineau. Chuck has a broad knowledge of “Natural North Dakota” and loves sharing that knowledge with others. Since 2005, he has written a weekly column, “Naturalist at Large,” for the Lake Metigoshe Mirror. His columns also appear under “The Naturalist” in several other weekly newspapers across North Dakota. Natural North Dakota is supported by NDSU Central Grasslands Research Extension Center and Dakota College at Bottineau, a ...
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Sitting Bull to Phil Jackson, cattle to prairie dogs, knoefla to lefse. North Dakota's legacy includes many strange stories of eccentric towns, war heroes, and various colorful characters. Hear all about them on Dakota Datebook, your daily dose of North Dakota history. Dakota Datebook is made in partnership with the State Historical Society of North Dakota, and funded by Humanities North Dakota, a nonprofit, independent state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, f ...
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A WAY TO GARDEN is the horticultural incarnation of Margaret Roach
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Take an audio trip around Kentucky, Indiana, and throughout our region. On each episode, we listen to a field recording from the Kentuckiana Sounds map, and hear from the contributor who made it. Produced by Louisville Public Media, and Kentuckiana Sounds.
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A podcast about the intersection of public health, cultural history, and war in Kansas. School closures, mask mandates, infection waves, front line workers, debates over the disease’s origin, disparities in health care access, quarantine fatigue. All of these descriptions could easily apply to both current times and a century ago. In the midst of the current Covid-19 pandemic, many have started looking back to the last global health catastrophe of this magnitude - the 1918 influenza pandemic ...
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In 1982, Toby Evans, The host of Dead, But Not Gone, began to dialogue with the unseen realms when the voice of her Higher Self broke through the sound barrier of her ordinary reality. Life as she knew it, began to change. She transitioned from a public school Art teacher to a modern day, shamanic, Earth Steward creating one of the largest seven-circuit labyrinths in the United States. As “Keeper” of The Prairie Labyrinth, www.prairielabyrinth.com she transformed a five-acre field of native ...
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A movement of millions for equality. This is the official ERA Coalition podcast presented by our media hub, Equal Voices. Together with 290 partner organizations representing over 80 million champions for equality, Equality Talks uplifts and amplifies the voices of this movement, especially from communities most affected by systemic oppression and exclusion from mainstream media. Hosted by nationally acclaimed radio host and Equal Voices Elisa Parker, Equality Talks bridges the intersections ...
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Where-to, how-to and when-to bird hunting advice on pheasant, partridge, ruffed grouse, sharptails, prairie chickens and quail, Host Randy Shepard has bird hunted from Oregon to Wisconsin to New Mexico and Arizona. He's taken 15 different combination limits and four different double limits of upland birds across the mid-west. He's never hired a guide, leased land, hunted as a guest or engaged in a swap hunt, while in pursuit of dual limits. All self-made, self-planned hunts, on public (and a ...
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Our Juneteenth Special features Fred Gray on being MLK's lawyer, Willie James Jennings on racism's origins, and James Lawson on non-violent protest in the civil rights movement.
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At the end of the Civil War, the country began waking up to the realities of recovery. Railroads and bridges had been destroyed. Farms had been wiped out. Disabled veterans were unable to support themselves and widows and orphans had been left behind. President Lincoln had promised to care for “those who have borne the burden, his widow and orphans…
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New Book Explores Masculinity; Rick Gion on Healthy Summer Eating
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Anton Treuer's first novel, Where Wolves Don't Die, explores masculinity, nature, family secrets, and race. Prairie Plates covers healthy summer foods.
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The Dakota Territory legislature created Richland County on January 4th, 1873. It was named for Morgan T. Rich. In 1869, Rich settled on the site of what would become the city of Wahpeton. Wahpeton serves as the county seat of Richland County, tucked along the Red River in the southeastern corner of North Dakota.…
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Women as Pastoral Leaders; Young Authors; Music From our Childhood; Tom Isern
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Pastor Danni Dunasky on women priests, youth author Lindsey Undlin, Tom Isern's "The Justice Book" essay, and Melanie Popejoy interviewed by Tom Brosseau.
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June 17: Teachings of Our Elders - Frances Cree's story of the sweat lodge
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In this episode of Dakota Datebook, we'll listen to JT Shining Oneside, enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of the Chippewa Nation, as she shares Frances Cree's story of the sweat lodge.
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It’s an age of dread, the news perpetually discouraging, TV and media merchandising ugliness, and either you join the Greek chorus of gloom or you go with the American choir of cheerful resolve, and I choose cheerfulness. I am capable of dismay: I’m dismayed by the Working From Home syndrome that is leaving our big office buildings half empty. I ca…
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When in 1950 Dean Ernst Giesecke proposed an Institute for Regional Studies at North Dakota Agricultural College, not many people had a clear idea what he was talking about. President Hultz went along, though, and on 8 March 1950, the state board concurred, establishing the institute as a program of the School of Applied Arts & Sciences.…
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I encourage you to consider a trip to the International Peace Garden this summer. There is much to see and do there, including exploring a little Natural North Dakota and Manitoba in the Turtle Mountain aspen forest.By Chuck Lura
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Matt Olien is Prairie Public's movie critic. Today he reviews "Songs of Earth."
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Matt Olien is Prairie Public's movie critic. Today he reviews Woody Allen's Coup de Chance.
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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 17, 2024 – Ken Druse on Garden Visiting
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What’s one of the best sources of inspiration and information about gardening you can get outside of a classroom, and that is also wonderfully entertaining? By making time to go visit other people’s gardens, we can open ourselves up to... Read More ›By Margaret Roach
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On this date in 1824, the St. Louis Enquirer reported the latest news about Arikara refugees from the previous year's conflict.By Andrew Alexis Varvel
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U.S. - Canada Regional Relations; News; Movies; Poetry and Butterflies
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Matt Olien and Canadian Consul General Beth Richardson. Butterfly breeders aid habitat preservation. Dave Thompson reviews news. Matt Olien reviews "Songs of Earth." Pádraig Ó Tuama explores identity and conflict.
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The heart of durum wheat country in the state has been in a 90-mile radius around Devils Lake, which annually produced about 90% of the U.S. total. From durum wheat kernels comes macaroni, egg noodles and spaghetti. Back in 1955, Devils Lake celebrated ‘all things macaroni’ at its Macaroni Festival, and June 13 was the final day of the event.…
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NDCA Jessica Christy; 32nd MO River Bluegrass Festival; Prairie Plates
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NDCA's new director, Jessica Christy, shares her vision. Common Nighthawks at ballgames, Missouri River Bluegrass Festival preview, and Prairie Plates' unique sausage.
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June 12: Teachings of Our Elders - Debbie Petra on Turtle Mountain culture
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In this episode of Dakota Datebook, we'll listen to Debbie Petra, enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of the Chippewa Nation, as she talks about the culture of the Turtle Mountain people.
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Live Tales; Isern Essay; and Wayne Salter, HHS Commissioner
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We explore live local storytelling with Stacy Nicholson and Laurie Baker, hear Tom Isern's Plains Folk essay, and discuss health initiatives with HHS Commissioner Wayne Salter.
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Leading up to the June 11 primary, we've been celebrating democracy in North Dakota history. Today, we learn about Arthur G. Sorlie, of Grand Forks, who was endorsed by the Nonpartisan League to become governor in 1924.By Sarah Walker
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Dr. John Ikerd - Future of Family Farming; ND Sec. of State Michael Howe
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Insights on food, farming, and community with Dr. John Ikerd at the Barnes County Historical Society's 150th celebration. ND Sec. of State Michael Howe on the primaries.
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ALERT ... refresh for "Is America's Democracy Failing"
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If you haven't already listened to the June episode, you may need to refresh your download to get the long version. The shorter broadcast version was initially posted.
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June 10: The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
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Leading up to the June 11 primary, we're celebrating democracy in North Dakota history. Today, we learn about the Superintendent of the Department of Public Instruction.By Sarah Walker
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Jack visits with Adam Lovett, the author of "Democratic Failures and the Ethics of Democracy." (University of Pennsylvania Press) Lovett is a lecturer at Australian Catholic University in the School of Philosophy.
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I’m still writing books but haven’t been reviewed by anybody in ages, maybe because I’m an Old White Male and our time is up, or maybe I’ve written too many books, and I’m okay with unreviewing — going way back to Veronica Geng’s caramel custard review of Lake Wobegon Days in the New York Times in 1985, the reviews have been warm and sweet, which i…
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In 1949 a new dean arrived to head up the School of Applied Arts & Sciences at North Dakota Agricultural College, one not from the customary midwestern lineage for NDAC appointments. The press said he was “a native Texan,” but his name didn’t sound like it: Gustav Ernst Giesecke.By Tom Isern
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Identifying and treating poison ivy and skunk spray
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Summer is upon us! It seems that every year, questions come up on how to identify poison ivy, and what to do if a dog has been sprayed by a skunk. A little reminder of identification of poison ivy and treatment of skunk spray might be helpful.By Chuck Lura
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Hardy Kern on Neonic Dangers – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 10, 2024
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I suspect every gardener has for years now, over and again, heard the warnings about the most widely used pesticides in the US, neonicotinoids – or neonics for short. In 2013 the American Bird Conservancy issued a report, warning of... Read More ›By Margaret Roach
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Leading up to the June 11 primary, we're celebrating democracy in action from North Dakota history, large and small.By Sarah Walker
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Weinstein on Democracy; Isern on Regional Studies; News and Movies
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Jack Weinstein on democracy, Tom Isern on regional studies, news review by Dave Thompson, and Matt Olien's review of Woody Allen's "Coup de Chance."
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Leading up to the June 11 primary, we're celebrating democracy in action from North Dakota history, large and small.By Ann Alquist
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DPI Candidate Jason Heitkamp ~ Rick Gion on Food Trucks ~ Edmore School Closing
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Jason Heitkamp - runs for Supt. of Public Instruction. Rick Gion highlights food truck festivals. Edmore's school closes permanently. Poison ivy & skunk spray treatment.
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Leading up to the June 11 primary, we're celebrating democracy in action from North Dakota history, large and small.By Ann Alquist
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Legal Services of North Dakota; DPI Candidate Jim Bartlett; What Should You Do?
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James Bartlett, DPI Candidate; Jen Lee and Legal Services of North Dakota; the Bismarck PD tells a co-host of Main Street if he responded correctly when he saw a crime.
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Leading up to the June 11 primary, we're celebrating democracy in action from North Dakota history, large and small.By Ann Alquist
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Lifestyle Medicine w/ Dr. Stefanie Meyer; DPI Candidate Kirsten Baesler
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Dr. Stefanie Meyer, Lifestyle Medicine pro, and Concordia wellness director, discusses chronic conditions. Kirsten Baesler, Supt. of Public Instruction candidate, joins Main Street.
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June 3: Students Celebrate Japanese Victory in 1905
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On this date in 1905, The Weekly Student, the University of North Dakota's student newspaper, reported: “One of the most pleasant and successful social functions of the year was the garden party which was given by the A. D. T. society last Monday evening to the other literary societies and the faculty.…
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Let's talk about honesty, grrrr, rrrfff, rrrfff
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The fact is that when I was a kid in Minnesota, struggling my way through six-foot snowdrifts to school, long before lightweight down coats were invented — I was an 82-pound fourth-grader wearing 42 pounds of heavy woolens and corduroy, and one day I was caught by a pack of coyotes who carried me away to their den where I remained for several years…
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The Amphibians and Reptiles of North Dakota website lists eight species of snakes documented in the state. I assume that most North Dakotans are familiar with many of these snakes, but I suspect that few have ever heard of or seen a smooth green snake (Opheodrys vernalis).By Chuck Lura
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Neil Diboll on Prairie Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 3, 2024
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Interest and awareness around native plants has been trending in recent years, and it makes them almost feel new. But of course natives are the original plants of an area—and even in certain specialty corners of the nursery industry they... Read More ›By Margaret Roach
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May 31: Teachings of Our Elders - Mary Bateman on Living Off The Land
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In this episode of Dakota Datebook, we'll listen to Mary Bateman, enrolled member of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation, as she talks about living off the land.
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Prairie Public movie critic Matt Olien reviews this latest in the action-heavy Mad Max saga.
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With Memorial Day right behind us, it is officially the summer travel season. But if you have your cell phone with you and your cell phone is connected to your work email and your Facebook and your Insta and it's constantly dinging and you're constantly checking or maybe you're one of those people who brings a laptop on vacation or calls into the o…
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Iron Opera Documentary; Snakes in ND; News Discussion; Movie Review: Furiosa
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Iron Opera is a documentary exploring high art in a small town. It introduces us to a legendary concert pianist who teamed up with an Ojibwe language teacher, a skateboarding accordionist, and talent imported from every corner of the Earth to pull off the impossible. It's airing on Prairie Public May 30. ~~~ Have you ever seen a Smooth Green Snake?…
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The American West underwent major changes in the early 1900s. Cities and towns were springing up, railroads crisscrossed the countryside, and fences put land off-limits to public use. The Federal government also established Forest Reserves. Grazing livestock in these areas required a permit. In an effort to avoid paying for permits, some livestock …
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The Philosophy of Rest; Preserving Grasslands; Celebrating Asian Culture; Plains Folk Essay
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Today's segments:With Memorial Day behind, the summer vacation season is underway. But if we're travelling with our devices, can we actually rest? What do we lose when we don't properly rest? We visit with philosopher Dr. Jack Russell Weinstein.Harvest Public Media reports on efforts to preserve and restore the grasslands.Nearly 50 countries make u…
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May 29: Westland Oil Filling Station in Minot
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May is National Historic Preservation Month, and today we hear about another historic structure involved with North Dakota’s transportation infrastructure.By Sarah Walker
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Jeff Miller and "Our Bend in the River"; Fred Eaglesmith at the Westward Ho
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Jeffrey Miller's "Our Bend in the River" chronicles his family's sustainable homestead journey at Cottonwood Bend Farm. Plus, Fred Eaglesmith's 1997 performance at the Westward Ho.
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May 28: Teachings of Our Elders - "Getting Through Boarding School" (Part Two)
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In this episode of Dakota Datebook, we'll listen to Catherine Froelich, enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, in part two of Getting Through Boarding School.
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Memorial Day - "We've Never Been The Same: A War Story"
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The stories of the surviving members of Delta Company, a Vietnam-era paratrooper unit.
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Monday is Memorial Day, a day that got lost when it was turned into a weekend, and someday we’ll turn it back into a day, which it was for a hundred years. Decoration Day. After the bloody Civil War, flowers were placed on the graves of the war dead. One of those times when the country is united. This is our observance of Memorial Day, a poem entit…
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