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Students\u2019 150-word essays tell new stories of heartbreak and joy from Grand Forks\u2019 first 150 years<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nikki Berg Burin (left) and William Caraher of UND\u2019s Department of History & American Indian Studies are working with students to create a book of 150-word essays to commemorate Grand Forks\u2019 first 150 years. So far, the first 50 essays \u2014 written by students, faculty and other community members \u2014 are available online through The Digital Press. Photo by Janelle Vonasek\/UND Today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong>\u00a0In the\u00a0UND LEADS Strategic Plan<\/a><\/strong>, the \u201cDiscovery\u201d core value<\/strong><\/a> calls on UND to \u201cfoster innovative teaching, applied learning and transformative research that exemplifies discovery, as shown by experimenting, researching, drafting (and) writing,\u201d among other activities. <\/em>This story describes a project in which UND faculty members \u201cfoster innovative teaching\u201d by asking students to write short essays on Grand Forks history that are being collected and published in book form.<\/em><\/p>\n

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They say history repeats itself, but that\u2019s exactly what historians William Caraher<\/strong><\/a> and Nikki Berg Burin<\/strong><\/a> didn\u2019t want to do when they set out with their students on a project to commemorate Grand Forks\u2019 first 150 years.<\/p>\n

Associate Professor Caraher and Assistant Professor Berg Burin, both of UND\u2019s Department of History & American Indian Studies<\/strong><\/a>, said much of the city\u2019s early historical accounts tended to follow more of a \u201ctop-down narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey focused a lot on all the great men<\/em> who came to the prairie to do great man things<\/em> like founding cities, piloting steamboats and building railroads,\u201d said Caraher, exaggerating his point with gruff inflection. \u201cThat seemed a little dated to us because that\u2019s just not the narrative many of us in the community can relate to any longer. There are so many more stories to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGrand Forks at 150: The First Fifty,\u201d<\/strong><\/a> now available on The Digital Press, is just the start to some of those stories.<\/p>\n

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A jumbo-sized city plat map preserved in UND\u2019s Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections shows the core of the city in 1901. Associate Professor William Caraher said Curt Hanson, head of Special Collections, was instrumental in helping students research topics for their essays. \u201cCurt was an invaluable collaborator on this project,\u201d Caraher said. \u201cMany universities have big, fancy sports complexes and state-of-the-art business schools, but fewer and fewer have really professionally staffed and accessible Special Collections. Here, we have a gem.\u201d Photo by Janelle Vonasek\/UND Today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A different kind of North Dakota history<\/h2>\n

The collection of 50 short essays \u2014 each appropriately 150 words long and written by students, faculty and other community members \u2014 is a collaboration between the Department of History & American Indian Studies and the Grand Forks Historic Preservation Commission.<\/p>\n

All told, Berg Burin said the eventual collection of 150 essays will weave a textured legacy that goes far beyond the community\u2019s traditional timelines and historical markers. Rather, these stories will give readers a front-row seat to the people who lived that history.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we all know some of that big, broad narrative of North Dakota, but by looking at the local level, we get to see some of the nuance and diversity of experience,\u201d Berg Burin said. \u201cExploring the plurality of voices and experience can give us insight into who we are today, where we\u2019ve been and, perhaps, where we\u2019re going.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nikki Berg Burin (left) and William Caraher page through the scrapbook of Anna Kirk. In 1925, Kirk became the first woman to serve as a juror on a grand jury in Grand Forks County during a time when women could vote on only school issues. The suffrage leader played a major role in the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Photo by Janelle Vonasek\/UND Today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How do you rewrite<\/em> the history?<\/h2>\n

Well, that\u2019s a good question, said Caraher, before explaining moments later how the project didn\u2019t exactly begin at UND but actually evolved from a conversation he had with his wife.<\/p>\n

You see, Susan Caraher is the city\u2019s historic preservation coordinator.<\/p>\n

She had been looking through materials from the city\u2019s 1974 centennial celebration when she observed the 150th was right around the corner, prompting her to wonder out loud what the city might do to mark the milestone.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wanted to create something new and something lasting,\u201d Caraher said. \u201cSo, Susie and I were just talking and thought, \u2018Hey, before we go any further, we really should rope in other people who are interested in the plurality of stories in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

That immediately led Caraher to seek out his colleague Berg Burin. The pair soon sat down with department Chair Cynthia Prescott<\/strong><\/a>, more brainstorming ensued and the public partnership was born.<\/p>\n

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In the heart of the downtown, Central High School, the original Grand Forks Herald building and the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse are visible on an early Grand Forks plat map. Photo by Janelle Vonasek\/UND Today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Looking back and looking forward<\/h2>\n

Turns out that white settlers first platted the city of Grand Forks in 1874, but the town wasn\u2019t officially incorporated until seven years later \u2014 giving the historians two dates and some extra wiggle room to create something special for the sesquicentennial.<\/p>\n

From start to finish, they would guide 14 undergraduate students to research, write, workshop, edit and publish essays that would be turned into a book and made available to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was raised in Grand Forks, so this is a real honor and responsibility to be able to help tell these stories,\u201d Berg Burin said. \u201cAnd from Day One, my students also were very excited. It was hard work, but once we finally got that first edited version out, they were thrilled to see it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were published by a legitimate press, and that\u2019s not something that happens very often for undergraduates.\u201d<\/p>\n

The students were able to choose their own topics, but they knew all along that this would be a very different writing assignment. They would begin by crafting 300-word essays and then go through a series of peer reviews and edits to whittle that by half while still keeping their stories meaningful.<\/p>\n

\u201cCounting to 150 is more challenging than you might think. We\u2019re humanities people,\u201d Caraher said with a chuckle. \u201cYou can\u2019t just go through it and cut all the adjectives. It doesn\u2019t work that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlus, in history, you\u2019re always asking students, \u2018What\u2019s the significance of this?\u2019 The students knew they weren\u2019t just telling a story \u2014 they also were telling why the story mattered. That was Nikki\u2019s guidance. She really worked with them to bring that out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over one semester, the students untangled bits and pieces from digital resources and pored over newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, institutional records and even World War I-era dance cards in UND\u2019s Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the end, they each contributed three essays that, together, begin to chronicle 150 years of both joy and sorrow, love and contempt, adversity and triumph.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were very clear that this project wasn\u2019t just about celebration. When you\u2019re looking at the past as a whole, you\u2019re seeing the good and the bad, the happy and the sad. At least in the first 50, there\u2019s really a nice balance of that,\u201d Berg Burin said. \u201cI also encouraged the students to look for the mundane, the eclectic or odd story that might be interesting. I wanted to really give them freedom to focus on the big or<\/em> the small and just see where they landed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A weathered scrapbook from suffragist Anna Kirk contained numerous newspaper clippings and letters to the editor. She was quoted: \u201cBecause I am I, a thinking, intelligent human being, I feel that I should have equal rights with other human beings. The accident of birth should not debar me from this privilege (of being allowed to vote).\u201d Photo by Janelle Vonasek\/UND Today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A mix of big days and everydays<\/h2>\n

Take for instance, the strange story of Grand Forks surgeon and one-time mayor, Dr. Henry Wheeler, who claimed to possess the skeleton of Clell Miller, a member of the outlaw Jesse James gang. Wheeler said he shot and killed Miller in 1876 as the gang attempted to escape after a bank robbery in Northfield, Minn. It\u2019s speculated that Wheeler retrieved the body from a shallow grave and used it as a cadaver while studying medicine in Michigan.<\/p>\n

Or the heartbreaking story of Adelaide Chapman, a young woman who was brutally raped in 1917 by five of the city\u2019s most prominent young men. The men faced little consequence, and the judge was said to blame Chapman for the attack simply because she was guilty of having a mature figure and had accepted a ride from the men at night.<\/p>\n

And who could forget \u2014 but for maybe those who were there \u2014 the night of \u201cNew Beer\u2019s Eve\u201d when 17,000 locals shared 100,000 bottles of beer to celebrate the official end to Prohibition in 1933.<\/p>\n

The stories go on \u2026 A Jewish neighborhood is lost. Crowds watch horses, not cars, race around the track. A roller rink doubles for dancing, wrestling \u2014 and<\/em> Sunday church services. There\u2019s even an essay that reveals the Golden Hour\u2019s secret recipe for deep-fried halibut. The downtown delicacy was worthy of urban legend before there was such a thing as urban legend.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the most brilliant essays are the ones the students wrote,\u201d Caraher said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m not just saying that to make our students look good. Their essays really<\/em> are<\/em> that good.\u201d<\/p>\n

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UND History student Carsen Grave says \u201cthere are so many good reasons to look at the plurality of experience. Any truth seeker will tell you that, on your own, you cannot see as much truth as you can with other people\u2019s perspectives. \u2026 It\u2019s a duty to know what others have experienced, whether good or bad. This is how we build empathy for other groups of people. And it helps us to not repeat the same mistakes in the future.\u201d Photo courtesy of Carsen Grave.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can believe it or not<\/h2>\n

One such essay was written by UND senior Carsen Grave, who shared the tale of \u201cAnna Eva Fay(ke)\u2019s Cloudy Crystal Ball.\u201d The nationally proclaimed psychic apparently was so believable that she sold out the town\u2019s Opera House night after night.<\/p>\n

Grave was enthralled, too, but for another reason. The History<\/strong><\/a> major said he found \u201cGrand Forks 150\u201d to be both challenging and inspiring.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved so many aspects of this project that I don\u2019t know that I could pick a favorite part,\u201d Grave said. \u201cDoing the archival research was just fascinating. I was holding real historical documents in my hand that in some cases were more than 100 years old. That\u2019s such a surreal experience and so different than opening a textbook written by a scholar.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the project also taught him a lot about himself as he gravitated toward topics that revealed and reflected some of his own values.<\/p>\n

For example, he pointed to his research on the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Grand Forks, which \u201cbuilt an alternative community in small-town America.\u201d During a time of great racial and religious divide in the country\u2019s tumultuous 1960s and \u201970s, Grave said the group stuck to their guiding principles of wisdom and compassion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you live a life based on wisdom and compassion, you won\u2019t do anybody wrong. I love the simplicity and appeal of that,\u201d Grave said. \u201cJust try to learn something new every day and be kind to others. I now feel motivated to capture that same energy in my own life.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the untold stories are told<\/h2>\n

Emily Bruer, who earned her History degree in May \u2014 along with minors in Nonprofit Administration<\/strong><\/a> and Women & Gender Studies<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 was another fan of the project.<\/p>\n

She said she enjoyed both the independent research and the collaborative teamwork.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe process felt strange at first, but I genuinely appreciated having the opportunity to regularly discuss my work with my classmates,\u201d she said. \u201cBy the end of the semester, I trusted their advice and felt that we had built a strong partnership based on the desire to publish something meaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bruer, who\u2019s now updating the Lee Mohr Photograph Collection as an intern with the State Historical Society of North Dakota,\u00a0focused her attention on some of history\u2019s most unsung heroes: women.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile I found plenty of information about the prominent and influential men who contributed to the community, I struggled to find meaningful accounts about the women who did the same,\u201d Bruer said. \u201cI saw this project as a chance to elevate the stories of previously overlooked and undervalued people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two of those people she elevated were Mathilda and Gina Taugbol, sisters who ran a department store that specialized in tailoring and millinery services. Fighting the norm at the turn of the century, the women used their economic and social connections to provide a suitable<\/em> place for women to publicly gather outside their homes \u2014 and they also encouraged other women to be entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

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Cover design: Chloe Piekkola.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bruer said her biggest takeaway from the project was that \u201clocal history matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInvesting in local history \u2014 whether it\u2019s casual interest or professional motivation \u2014 can empower a person to use that past to better understand the present and better prepare for the future,\u201d she said. \u201cStories like the ones we uncovered also can inspire a community to take pride in its history and encourage growth beyond its previous shortcomings.\u201d<\/p>\n

>> Do you have a story idea? <\/strong>Berg Burin and Caraher say \u201cGrand Forks 150\u201d<\/strong><\/a> will be a work in progress over the next couple of years. If you have an idea or would like to contribute an essay, contact Berg Burin at nikki.berg@UND.edu<\/strong><\/a> or Caraher at william.caraher@UND.edu<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

>> Stay tuned for an upcoming exhibit. <\/strong>Jeremy Kingsbury<\/strong><\/a>, teaching assistant professor in History & American Indian Studies, also is working to develop an exhibit that ties into the project.<\/p>\n

>>\u00a0Questions or comments <\/strong>about the\u00a0UND LEADS Strategic Plan<\/a><\/strong>? Your thoughts are welcome! Please contact\u00a0Mike Wozniak<\/a><\/strong>, coordinator of Leadership & Programming, and\/or\u00a0Ryan Zerr<\/a><\/strong>, associate vice president for Strategy & Implementation, the co-chairs of the UND LEADS Implementation Committee. <\/em>You also may offer your thoughts by visiting the\u00a0UND LEADS Strategic Plan home page<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and clicking on the \u201cProvide your feedback\u201d link that you\u2019ll find there.<\/em><\/p>\n

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