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Arts and Entertainment

Art in Motion to raise awareness funding

Art in Motion will be held Friday, May 8, at 6 p.m. at the Taube Museum of Art in Minot. The event is presented by Razzle-N-Dazzle.Co’s Sparkle Art as a fundraiser for Parkinson’s and mental health awareness. Artists working in any medium are invited to submit their works by May 6 for ...

America at 250: Frederick, Maryland, played active role in Revolutionary War

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of 12 weekly stories focusing on America’s 250th birthday, as told through the lens of our communities and the role many of the places we call home played in shaping the nation before, during and after the Revolutionary War. This week we stop in ...

Remembering final signer of Declaration of Independence

NASHUA, N.H. — John Hancock will forever be known as the first of 56 delegates to sign the Declaration of Independence, but Dr. Matthew Thornton of Londonderry, New Hampshire, has the distinction of being the last delegate to leave his mark on one of America’s greatest documents. Born in ...

Retirement’s Comic Relief: Go ahead caller… You’re on the line

“Come here Watson, I need you” are considered the first words spoken over a phone by Alexander Graham Bell to his assistant in 1876. Bell was the first to receive a telephone patent ten years later. Installation of poles and phone wire took a while. By the 1920s, roughly 20% of households ...

America at 250: Making of America’s first president George Washington

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of 12 weekly stories focusing on America’s 250th birthday, as told through the lens of our communities and the role many of the places we call home played in shaping the nation before, during and after the Revolutionary War. This week we begin in ...

Retirement’s Comic Relief: Prepare for April Fools tomorrow

The Minot Lions Club will soon celebrate its 100th year of service in Minot and the surrounding area. One of two distinguished former members of the club includes Alf Fuegelso (b. 1903, d. 2003). Alf became a charter member of the Minot Lions Club in 1926. At age 98 he became the first Lions ...