DAKOTA DATEBOOK: A tree grows in Washington

Did you know that by the 1950s, there was a little bit of North Dakota growing in Washington, D.C.?On this day in 1953, the Minot Daily News proudly published a photo it had received of several residents of North Dakota standing in front of North Dakota’s state tree, the American elm, in front of the capitol building in Washington.This tree was planted by residents of the state....