NEW SALEM Thousands of country music fans recently gathered under the watchful eyes of the Salem Sue cow statue outside of New Salem for the sixth ND Country Fest.
NEW SALEM Thousands of country music fans have gathered under the watchful eyes of the Salem Sue cow statue outside of New Salem for the sixth ND Country Fest.
Monuments and tributes to the past are sprinkled throughout North Dakota towns and parks. Many towns have veteran and war memorials. Mandan, Minot and Medora have a statue of President Theodore Roosevelt. Grand Forks has a sculpture commemorating the 1997 Red River Flood. Some towns pay tribute with a local symbol, like Salem Sue in New Salem and Tommy the snowmobiling turtle in Bottineau.