December 27, 2012 in Worthington Daily Globe
SLAYTON The Murray County Historical Society recently received a grant of $4,390 to go toward a World War I exhibit planned to display in 2014. Continue Reading
July 19, 2012 in The Dickinson Press
Rasia Mackey, 9, left, and Matthew Hartl, right, 10, pick Red Globe radishes on Thursday morning in the Victory Garden growing on the grounds of the Dickinson Museum Center. Continue Reading
May 19, 2012 in The Dickinson Press
The history of World War I covers more than European battles, trenches and mustard gas.
Families in America were impacted in other ways. Besides sending their sons to war, families raised Victory Gardens, purchased war bonds and played patriot songs on the radio.
Dickinson’s Joachim Regional Museum has opened an exhibit titled “Over Here and Over There: World War I in Song and Stereo.”
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February 7, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
Florence Green was the last known surviving veteran of World War I. She was serving with the Women’s Royal Air Force as a waitress at an air base in eastern England when the guns fell silent on Nov. 11, 1918. It was not until 2010 that she was officially recognized as a veteran after a researcher found her service record in Britain’s National Archives. Continue Reading
March 1, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald
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They are all gone now, including the thousands of doughboys who came home to North Dakota and Minnesota after what was called the Great War, the war to make the world safe for democracy, the war to end all wars. Continue Reading
February 28, 2011 in The Dickinson Press
What was it like? What was it like in the trenches? What was it like in all those places whose names have faded in the dusty recesses of memory, places like Ypres and Gallipoli, Verdun and the Marne? What was it like to fight the war that was supposed to make the world safe for democracy? There’s no one left to ask.
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