 | | |  | North Dakota High School Basketball History Highlighted at the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum
Learn about the history and nostalgia of high school basketball in North Dakota when you visit “Beyond the Court: Basketball Bonds North Dakota Communities” throughout the month of March at the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum in Bismarck.
To do the entire month of March: Visit the temporary exhibit in the Inspiration Gallery: Yesterday and Today. Stop by the State Archives to look at past editions of “The Hoopster,” state tournament programs, and other treasures. View a hallway display of basketball photographs from throughout the years. Enjoy daily self-led activities for children and adults.
Friday, March 8 Participate in high school basketball trivia at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Watch two Prairie Public Television documentaries, “One Shining Moment” and “Basketball, Water, and the Lost City of Elbowoods,” running continuously in the Russell Reid Auditorium.
Saturday, March 9 Participate in high school basketball trivia at 11 a.m. Watch two Prairie Public Television documentaries, “One Shining Moment” and “Basketball, Water, and the Lost City of Elbowoods,” running continuously in the Russell Reid Auditorium.
Read more… | |  | “Marvelocity: The Art of Alex Ross” Premieres March 16 at the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum | “Marvelocity: The Art of Alex Ross” premieres at the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum in Bismarck, Saturday, March 16. Ross has illustrated some of the most iconic Marvel images known to fans today.
This new exhibition, on view through June 9, illustrates Ross’s artistic path through his childhood drawings, preliminary sketches, paintings, and three-dimensional head busts of characters in the Marvel Universe. “Marvelocity: The Art of Alex Ross” and its national tour were developed by the Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County in Libertyville, Illinois. | | “Marvelocity” Premiere Activities Scheduled
Saturday, March 16 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. |
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| Join us at the State Museum in Bismarck as we celebrate the premiere of "Marvelocity: The Art of Alex Ross."
Free activities will be held for children and adults Saturday, March 16 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Northern Lights Atrium. Meet our team of superheroes: Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, and Wolverine. Come dressed as your favorite superhero. Make a superhero mask. Create your own comic book cover. Have your face painted.
Learn more… | |  | The State Historical Society Is Hiring!Archivist America250 ND Coordinator Photo Archives Intern Reference Intern Manuscript Collection Intern Site Supervisors Grounds Maintenance Staff Site Interpreters Store Clerks
For more information contact Erica Houn at ehoun@nd.gov or 701.328.2327.
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|  | Enjoy “Java, Jigsaws, and Parlor Games”
The Chateau de Morès Interpretive Center in Medora is hosting “Java, Jigsaws and Parlor Games” Tuesday through Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. MT throughout March.
Stop by for a steaming cup of coffee and challenge your friends to a game. |
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| |  | Donation Spotlight Hardanger Embroidered Wedding Dress
Norwegian traditions and contemporary style combine to make this modern wedding dress. The late Maren Swenson Waxenberg, who grew up in Bismarck, wore this dress for her 1997 wedding. She along with Royal Hopkins and Bonnie Hadland spent two years working on the Hardanger embroidery used to embellish her bunad-inspired wedding dress. A bunad is a traditional Norwegian celebration garment worn during festivals, weddings, and other special occasions.
Hardanger is a whitework embroidery technique traditionally used to decorate the aprons, collars, and cuffs of bunader in Norway’s Hardanger region. The technique was used to decorate the entire wedding dress with great effect. Instead of an apron, Waxenberg decorated a full overskirt and moved the embroidered bands of the belt, normally found in front of the garment, to the back to create a train-like effect. | |  | ND Heritage Center & State Museum
Pop-up Programs
Ready to be “surprised” by history? Since 2020, Gallery Guide Tom Chase has been delivering 10-minute pop-up history programs related to the exhibits at the State Museum in Bismarck.
Upcoming Presentations
Pop-ups are Monday through Friday at 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Check at the information desk for pop-up locations.
March 4-8 Holland Automobile March 25-29 I’m Not a Mammoth April 1-5 Beacon Island
April 8-12 Smallpox on the Plains April 15-19 Dakota the Dinomummy April 22-26 French Gratitude Train Car
Learn about upcoming State Museum events here… |
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| | | Enjoy Upcoming Events at State Museums & Historic Sites | Friday, March 8 Saturday, March 9 Little Kids, Big World: It’s Basketball Time, 10 and 11 a.m. ND Heritage Center & State Museum, Bismarck High School Basketball Documentary Screenings, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. ND Heritage Center & State Museum, Bismarck High School Basketball Trivia, 11 a.m. ND Heritage Center & State Museum, Bismarck Fibers and Flavors, 1-4 p.m. Former Governors’ Mansion, Bismarck State Archives open, 10 a.m-4:30 p.m. ND Heritage Center & State Museum, Bismarck
Saturday, March 16
Sunday, March 17
Saturday, March 23
Wednesday, March 27
Saturday, March 30
See full events calendar… | | Step Back in History | Revisiting North Dakota History Journal Articles | | Farm Boys, Crackerbox Gyms, and Hometown Referees: Coaching Basketball at Hurdsfield, North Dakota in 1953-1954
North Dakota History Volume 55, No. 4, Fall 1988 Lawrence H. Larsen reflects back on the 1953-1954 school year coaching the Hurdsfield Stags, a basketball team with a less than winning tradition. Although they finished the season with a 7-18 record, Larsen recalls an enthusiastic team carrying him off the court after a respectable victory over the conference champions in the first round of 1954 tournament play.
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