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Things to Do10 minutes

Horace Bean Days: A Fast-Growing Town’s Weekend for a Legume

Horace’s community weekend brings a Main Street parade, a street dance and fireworks to a Fargo suburb that counted 915 residents in 2000, all in the name of the dry bean.

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Layered buttes and prairie in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Things to Do

Fargo to Medora: The North Dakota Drive That Changes Its Mind

Plan the Fargo-to-Medora drive with realistic timing, the best I-94 stops, four practical route styles, and the time-zone detail travelers miss.

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Weather & Science11 minutes

The Night Fargo Helped Teach the World to Read a Tornado

In 1957, a lone Weather Bureau observer watched a black cone cross the prairie toward Fargo. The warning he improvised and the photographs residents made would become part of meteorological history.

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North Dakota Greats10 minutes

Before Peggy Lee, There Was Norma Egstrom

A short-line depot, small radio studios and one well-timed new name shaped the North Dakota years of an American original. They did not make her legend inevitable.

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Four historic home-run bats on display, including Roger Maris's 61st-home-run bat.
North Dakota Greats11 minutes

Sixty-One: The North Dakota Road Roger Maris Carried to New York

Roger Maris was born in Minnesota, spent part of his childhood in Grand Forks, and became a remarkable athlete in Fargo. He was then the most watched hitter in America.

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