North Dakota
What does a state Capitol do when its hall of fame gallery is nearly out of room? Find more space
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Visitors to the North Dakota Capitol enter a spacious hall lined with portraits of the Peace Garden State’s famous faces. But the gleaming gallery is nearly out of room.
Bandleader Lawrence Welk, singer Peggy Lee and actress Angie Dickinson are among the 49 recipients of the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award in the North Dakota Hall of Fame, where Capitol tours start. The most recent addition to the collection — a painting of former NASA astronaut James Buchli — was hung on Wednesday.
State Facility Management Division Director John Boyle said the gallery is close to full and he wants the question of where new portraits will be displayed resolved before he retires in December after 22 years. An uncalculated number of portraits would have to be inched together in the current space to fit a 50th inductee, Boyle said.
Institutions elsewhere that were running out of space — including the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall, the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s Plaque Gallery — found ways to expand their collections by rearranging their displays or adding space.
Boyle said there are a couple of options for the Capitol collection, including hanging new portraits in a nearby hallway or on the 18th-floor observation deck, likely seeded with four or five current portraits so a new one isn’t displayed alone.
Some portraits have been moved around over the years to make more room. The walls of the gallery are lined with blocks of creamy, marble-like Yellowstone travertine. The pictures hang on hooks placed in the seams of the slabs.
Eight portraits were unveiled when the hall of fame was dedicated in 1967, according to Bismarck Tribune archives. Welk was the first award recipient, in 1961.
Many of the lighted portraits were painted by Vern Skaug, an artist who typically includes scenery or objects key to the subject’s life.
Inductees are not announced with specific regularity, but every year or two a new one is named. The Rough Rider Award “recognizes North Dakotans who have been influenced by this state in achieving national recognition in their fields of endeavor, thereby reflecting credit and honor upon North Dakota and its citizens,” according to the award’s webpage.
The governor chooses recipients with the concurrence of the secretary of state and State Historical Society director. Inductees receive a print of the portrait and a small bust of Roosevelt, who hunted and ranched in the 1880s in what is now western North Dakota before he was president.
Gov. Doug Burgum has named six people in his two terms, most recently Buchli in May. Burgum, a wealthy software entrepreneur, is himself a recipient. The first inductee Burgum named was Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who jumped on the back of the presidential limousine during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 in Dallas.
The state’s Capitol Grounds Planning Commission would decide where future portraits will be hung. The panel is scheduled to meet Tuesday, but the topic is not on the agenda and isn’t expected to come up.
The North Dakota Capitol was completed in 1934. The building’s Art Deco interior features striking designs, lighting and materials.
The peculiar “Monkey Room” has wavy, wood-paneled walls where visitors can spot eyes and outlines of animals, including a wolf, rabbit, owl and baboon.
The House of Representatives ceiling is lit as the moon and stars, while the Senate’s lighting resembles a sunrise. Instead of a dome, as other statehouses have, the North Dakota Capitol rises in a tower containing state offices. In December, many of its windows are lit red and green in the shape of a Christmas tree.
TRAILL COUNTY, N.D. — More than a dozen fire departments across North Dakota have battled two grain elevator fires over the last two weeks.
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I did not attend any No Kings demonstrations, but several members of my family did. Senator Cramer, with fine impartially, referred to participants as “nut jobs. “ I assume he issued similar condemnations earlier to denounce the nut jobs who virtually demolished our nation’s capitol building (although those comments were never publicized).
The people exercising their constitutional rights that day were likely born and raised in North Dakota, and so familiar with our value system. One of those values, I think, is the firm expectation that the president of the United States (at the very base) be a decent human being, a requirement Cramer and Trumpers consider an inconvenience.
Perhaps the reason that those North Dakota folks were at the No Kings demonstrations was their concern that actions by the president (and eagerly supported by Cramer and Hoeven) would negatively affect them or their loved ones. And no doubt some at the rally were people who had watched with dismay the razing of historical structures to make room for a self-serving, $300 million ballroom. And OK, maybe some of the nut jobs there were of the Trump “nick picker variety” who didn’t feel they should be on the hook for $80 million to fund a billionaire’s golf trips.
Hey, Senator, remember back up in North Dakota how a man’s word was his bond? Picture now the fact that the somebody to whom you and Hoeven have given unwavering support is a consummate liar. What’s with the switch? A British newspaper has opined that the world is a much more dangerous place now that the president of the United States is a liar.
Think for a moment how the North Dakota values held by those “nut jobs” were challenged by rumors of sexually abusive behavior. Did you see any of those photos floating around of a man with his arm around a convicted sexual predator with the accompanied statement: “We have a lot in common”?
Senator, I have wondered about the naming of that “Big Beautiful Bill.“ Was it labeled “beautiful” because it left senate membership benefits untouched?
Perhaps you and Senator Hoeven (in your numerous public appearances) might address some of the issues raised by folks writing letters to the editor.
And keep in mind the so-called “nut jobs” contain voters who supported both of you in previous elections.
Buyer’s remorse, anyone?
Dominic Schaff is a resident of Bismarck.
GRAND FORKS – The Alerus Center bustled with thousands of eager shoppers Saturday, Nov. 15, as the Pride of Dakota Holiday Showcase opened for the start of its two-day event.
The facility became an enticing, can’t-miss mecca for those in search of unusual or unique items for themselves or Christmas gift-giving. It was expected to draw more than 9,000 visitors, one of the hundreds of vendors told the Herald.
Administered and hosted by the North Dakota Department of Agriculture, the Pride of Dakota program is an opportunity for businesses and organizations to connect with people in this region and beyond. More than 500 member companies participate in the program.
The event is also held annually in several other cities throughout the state.
“I come here every year,” said Autumn Maurstad, of East Grand Forks. “It’s one of all my stops.”
She was shopping for Christmas gifts, along with her husband Adam Maurstad.
At the “Holly the Potter” booth, she held up a natural-colored ceramic mug. Holly Van Santen Knipe, of rural Grand Forks, is the creative potter who has operated this business for many years.
“This coffee cup just spoke to me,” Maurstad said. “The bottom is not too gritty, the handle is good, it holds nice – it’s the perfect coffee cup. I’ve been looking for the perfect coffee cup for two years; I broke my last one.”
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Tanya and Rick Anderson, of Grand Forks, have operated Tan and Jay Creations for two years.
“We have something for everybody,” Tanya said.
They hand-assemble items including pens, zipper pulls, coffee stirs, key chains and other items.
The work takes “many, many, many hours,” Rick Anderson said.
“It keeps us busy, but I enjoy it,” his wife added.
Pamela Knudson / Grand Forks Herald
At the Pride of Dakota Showcase, the range of products are as vast and diverse as one could imagine – from the decorative to the functional, most of them handcrafted by North Dakotans. Available for purchase were artwork, food and beverage items, pet supplies, books, pottery, jewelry, photography, kitchenware, products to enhance personal health and well-being, and much more.
Carleen Hennenfent, a retired mortician from Bismarck, displayed her book, “Incomplete,” which offered insights on dealing with grief and the loss of loved ones – people as well as pets.
With memories that are stirred, the holidays can heighten that sense of loss, said Hennenfent, a grief educator. “It’s the nostalgia” that permeates the holiday season.
“People want yesterday to come back,” she said, “and they’re frightened of tomorrow. (It’s important) to live in the now, where at least we have some control.”
Nostalgia also plays a role in attracting customers to the traditional sock monkeys Keith and Leslie Ogden, of Cavalier, North Dakota, offered at their “Smitten with Mittens” booth.
Pamela Knudson / Grand Forks Herald
Leslie has been making these stuffed figures for 18 years, she said. Each one requires “two socks – original, red-heeled socks – one for the body and one for the extremities.”
When the Odgens go south for the winter each year, neighbors in their retirement community like to buy them for their grandkids, to carry on the memory.
Her husband Keith, a retired state trooper, was selling his second book, “More Humor on the Highway,” which recounts the fun incidents that happened and the funny things people said to him, as a trooper on the job, and regretted later.
“I don’t want to remember the bad things,” said Ogden, a native of East Grand Forks who worked 26 of his 28-year career in Cavalier.
His first book, “Humor on the Highway,” sold 2,500 copies in Pembina County, he said. “(People) wanted to see who’s in it.”
Pamela Knudson / Grand Forks Herald
On Saturday, the Alerus Center parking lots were nearly full and, inside, lines formed as additional security measures were in place, with personnel checking purses and totes and wanding visitors before entering the venue.
Pamela Knudson / Grand Forks Herald
The Pride of Dakota Holiday Showcase is also planned for Nov. 21-22 at Scheels Arena in Fargo and Dec. 5-6 at the Bismarck Events Center. Showcases were held earlier this fall in Minot and Dickinson.
Pamela Knudson / Grand Forks Herald
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