In Touch with Prairie Living, June 2024
By Michael M. Miller
Join us for the 53rd Germans from Russia Heritage Society Convention, July 17-20, at the Baymont Hotel, Mandan, N.D. For further information, contact GRHS at www.grhs.org.
In Touch with Prairie Living, May 2024
By Michael M. Miller
Leona (Woezner) Neu of Ashley, N.D., celebrates her 99th birthday on May 8th. Leona is well known as Ashley’s local historian, seamstress and cake decorator. Leona has many scrapbooks, obituaries and documents sharing the important history of Ashley, which was primarily settled by Germans from Russia. In 2013, Leona was named Queen at Ashley’s 125th Celebration.
In Touch with Prairie Living, April 2024
By Michael M. Miller
Nancy Martin and Connie Ulasewicz co-authored the article, “Ach, Gott, yes, I wish I was back in Russia: Heimat in the Dress of North Dakota’s Black Sea Germans.” It was published in the Journal of the Costume Society of America, Volume 46, 2020. Martin did extensive German-Russian textile and clothing research at the McIntosh County Museum, Ashley, ND, the State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck, and the Emily P. Reynolds Historic Costume Collection, NDSU, Fargo.
In Touch with Prairie Living, March 2024
By Michael M. Miller
On March 11, 2024, we celebrate the 121st birthday of bandleader Lawrence Welk. He was born March 11, 1903 in a sodhouse near Strasburg, ND, and died on May 17, 1992. The Lawrence Welk Collection was donated to the North Dakota State University Archives, Fargo.
In Touch with Prairie Living, January 2024
By Michael M. Miller
Prairie Preservation: An Odyssey on the North Dakota Prairies
By Wyatt Atchley, special collections archivist
In Touch with Prairie Living, October 2023
By Michael M. Miller
The Fall 2021 edition of the South Dakota History Journal published a valuable article, “’Whatever our language, we have the same flag’: The Eureka Rundschau, 1915-1927,” by Istvan Gombocz Fall 2021, pages 269-287. South Dakota Historical Society Press granted permission to share this article in part.
In Touch with Prairie Living, July 2023
By Michael M. Miller
One of the most important books published about the Germans from Russia in North Dakota is “Along the Trails of Yesterday: A Story of McIntosh County” by Nina Farley Wishek, published by the Ashley Tribune in 1941.
In Touch with Prairie Living, June 2023
By Michael M. Miller
The 52nd Germans from Russia Heritage Society Convention will be at the Baymont Hotel, Mandan, ND, from July 19-22, 2023. Join us for this festive gathering of our Germans from Russia community. For more information, go to www.grhs.org.
In Touch with Prairie Living, May 2023
By Michael M. Miller
Our Germans from Russia community has lost a shining star with the passing of Clarence Bauman of Bismarck, ND. Clarence was born to Fred and Rosina Bauman on February 18, 1923, on the family farm near Java, SD. He died on March 6, 2023.
