Happy birthday, North Dakota! Boy, do I have a soft spot for this slugger. I used to drive through it each summer between college and home, and it was great (for predictable reasons).
Back in the 1960s, a UND professor called E.B. Robinson wrote the definitive historical volume on the state, and identified six themes that repeatedly emerge in the story of North Dakota. Now, to me, looking over these, they all seemed a touch…familiar. And that’s when it hit me: Why, he wasn’t just talking about some grassland prairie state; these are themes that show up every day in my apartment!