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Do you need a new address book? Is your current one full or certain letters out of space to add new names? Forget people’s birthdays? The Institute has a new publication just for you.

Its Greetings from North Dakota address and date book will help you organize this important information. The book features scenes from towns across North Dakota taken from historic postcards in the archival collections of the Institute. The over fifty images include bird’s-eye views of towns, town schools, churches and other buildings, as well as the Dakota landscape. The postcards, spanning from 1907 to the 1930s, come from the collections of Lawrence Aasen and Dr. Ronald Olin. The Aasen images are from his mother Clara Aasen’s correspondence, while Olin’s are part of a 10,000 postcard collection he recently donated to the Institute.

Check local book and gift stores across the state to purchase a copy. Copies are also available directly from the Institute. The price is only $13.95, plus $4 shipping. Mail orders may be sent to the Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU Dept. #2360, P.O. Box 6050, Fargo, ND 58108-6050, or call 701-231-8338. A convenient order form is available at the Institute web site.

Consult Institute Publications for other available Institute books.

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The Institute for Regional Studies offers a new publication, A Prairie Prayer; Poems by Bruce Roseland and illustrated by Marie Louise Tesch.

This collection of poems continue the ideas first introduced by South Dakotan Bruce Roseland in The Last Buffalo. Bruce’s poems are about surviving the (simple) country life in South Dakota.

A Prairie Prayer expands the descriptions of modern farm/ranch life with an appreciation for the past and a wry wit honed by the lonely winds of the prairie. Roseland’s poems describe a life connected to the land.

“Once again it has been a pleasure to serve as Bruce Roseland’s editor, for in every way, A Prairie Prayer is a successful companion volume to his first book, The Last Buffalo. His rootedness, his honesty and directness, and his understanding of the changes that have been occurring in the rural Dakotas remain constant, but if the landscape here is a familiar one, the stories are new and compelling. People living in this part of the country, in particular, can be thankful for the kind of record Bruce Roseland has provided; readers everywhere can appreciate these thoroughly human perspectives and their celebration of the prairie land and people.” says Mark Vinz., Professor of Mass Communication, Minnesota State University, Moorhead.

The price is only $11.95, plus $4 shipping. Mail orders may be sent to the Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU Dept. #2360, P.O. Box 6050, Fargo ND 58108-6050, or call 701-231-8338. A convenient order form is available at the Institute web site.

Consult Institute Publications for other available Institute books.

• View Richard Bostwick Exhibit

Courtesy the family of Richard Bostwick in Washington State, the Institute for Regional Studies is pleased to present his vivid reminiscences of life in Fargo during the 1920s and 1930s.

Take a backseat ride with Richard Bostwick through this vivid recounting of his experience as a Fargo, N.D. cabbie and welfare office worker. His accounts reflect a side of Fargo during the tough times of the 1920s and 30s, where people struggled day-to-day to get by, through both legal and illegal means. His occupations put him in a unique position that allowed him to observe an underworld of bootleggers, gamblers, hustlers and other interesting characters, long forgotten and hidden by modern day prosperity. Richard Bostwick had a talent for storytelling that grabs a hold of the reader, and leaves one wanting more. Take a look and enjoy the ride!