Odessa Ukraine

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.

Pierce County Tribune
By Andrea Blessum

The sweet smell of a recent rainfall filled the air as Ron Brossart looked out over the flat, grassy land. Although there were no headstones in sight — they had been destroyed years ago, crushed and used for building roads — he was looking at a centuries-old cemetery.

The cemetery was not far from Odessa, Ukraine, the area where Brossart’s ancestors lived before immigrating to the United States....

In Touch with Prairie Living, March 2022
By Michael M. Miller