Heritage Renewal

For several years the Center for Heritage Renewal has been collecting material on fall suppers of the northern plains, the effort driven by the potential of these events as elements in the heritage tourism landscape. The collection of fall supper data is incorporated into the assignments for HIST 431: The North American Plains.

In addition, in recent months the center has begun to invest TripAdvisor, the leading online travel advisor, with content pertaining to North Dakota. This began through the center's ongoing relationship with the Tri County Tourism Alliance, which is working to promote Emmons, McIntosh, and Logan counties as a tourism destination based on German-Russian culture.

Now begins the placement in TripAdvisor of travel articles highlighting heritage tourism opportunities in North Dakota developed or researched by the center. Here is the link to the first of these - http://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g28955-c167543/North-Dakota:United-States:Fall.Suppers.html

Looking forward to another meeting next week of the Tri County Tourism Alliance, which is dedicated to the promotion of grassroots heritage tourism in Emmons, Logan, & McIntosh counties based on German-Russian Country as a culture region. Much more will be heard from this effort.

A good time at the winter research day of the Central Grasslands Research Extension Center, Streeter, on Wednesday. I had the pleasure of presenting a talk, "Culture & Agriculture: Living & Working on the Missouri Coteau." Assistant Director Andrea Mott also took in the proceedings, getting a full dose of Coteau cattle culture.

The center exhibited materials pertaining to its projects throughout the Governor's Conference on History, at the North Dakota Heritage Center, Bismarck, 29-30 October. Assistant Director Andrea Mott staffed the exhibit. Both Director Tom Isern (right) and Michael Miller, Director of the NDSU Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, received the Heritage Profile Honor Award of the State Historical Society of North Dakota at the meeting on 29 October.

Here's the link - http://history.nd.gov/hp/PDFinfo/ND2009CompHPPlan.pdf

Here's an opportunity for a History or Public History major - a fall internship in the Center for Heritage Renewal.

Check out these press releases about new pages in Remembrance in Stone.

Grand Army of the Republic Monument (Grand Forks)

Ringling Brothers Circus Monument (Wahpeton)

Ole Lykken Spanish War Monument (Kindred)