Michael M. Miller set to retire after 55 years at NDSU

Posted on Tue, 11/15/2022 - 10:47am

 

Michael M. Miller, director and bibliographer of the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection at the NDSU Libraries, is set to retire on Dec. 1 after over 55 years at NDSU. Michael joins Henry L. Bolley and C.B. Waldron as the longest serving employees in NDSU history.

In Touch with Prairie Living, July 2022

Posted on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 10:05am

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

I look forward to visiting the Eureka Pioneer Museum on July 13 with a bus tour traveling from Aberdeen, SD, during the 51st Germans from Russia Heritage Society Convention, July 13-16. I will also attend the 53rd American Historical Society of Germans from Russia Convention, July 27-30, in Lincoln, NE.

In Touch with Prairie Living, June 2022

Posted on Wed, 06/01/2022 - 08:08am

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

The mission of the Tri-County Tourism Alliance is to organize people to preserve and promote Germans from Russia heritage and culture to enhance tourism in Emmons, Logan, and McIntosh counties. These counties in south central North Dakota are the center of German-Russian country. The Tri-County Tourism Alliance is the embodiment of the names of these three counties.

In Touch with Prairie Living, May 2022

Posted on Mon, 05/02/2022 - 11:43am

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

On November 8, 1993, I interviewed Eva (Gross) Schatz at the Marillac Manor Retirement Center in Bismarck, ND. Eva was 89 at the time of the interview. She died on April 2, 2002. I have fond memories interviewing Eva. Her heartwarming complete oral history audio and transcription are at http://hdl.handle.net/10365/14243.

In Touch with Prairie Living, January 2022

Posted on Mon, 01/03/2022 - 01:52pm

By Michael M. Miller

Father Thomas Welk, Wichita, KS, grew up on a farm 11 miles directly east of Strasburg, ND. He translated an important work by Johannes Brendel, “Aus Deutschen Kolonien im Kutschurganer Gebiet,” or “The German Colonies in the Kutschurgan Region.”  The original translations were published in a series in “Heritage Review” from April 1979 to December 1981.

In Touch with Prairie Living, November 2021

Posted on Mon, 11/01/2021 - 12:28pm

By Michael M. Miller

Thanksgiving best regards to you and your family. Let us be grateful that our ancestors immigrated to the USA, Dakota prairies, Canada, and South America, from the former German villages in South Russia. Having visited these former Bessarabian and German villages near Odessa, Ukraine, I have seen what difficult lives the people experience today.

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