Twenty-two years to the day before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a young George Washington penned his name in defeat as he surrendered for the first and only time in his storied military career. It was at Fort Necessity in the Pennsylvania mountains of present-day Fayette ...

Students, Minot State University staff and community members alike congregated on April 14 at the Northwest Arts Center on the MSU campus for the unveiling of 142 prints created by notable master-printmakers Michael Barnes and David Driesbach, who both have ties to MSU. Printmaking is an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...