Home comes into focus for North Dakota photographers

MOORHEAD — Home means different things to different people. A trio of Minnesota State University Moorhead alumni share their visions on the subject with "Three Ways Home" at the Rourke Art Gallery + Museum. Each of the photographers is from North Dakota and has an affinity for the state that comes out in the works. The show runs through Oct. 25. A long goodbye Even though she no longer lives in the state a big part of Sarah Christianson s heart remains on the family farm near Hillsboro, North Dakota. It s where her great-great grandfather homesteaded in 1884 and where her parents are the last in the family to farm. Around the time she graduated from MSUM, her grandfather died, her grandmother moved to town and the family house was sold. I had this realization that our family history was changing before my eyes, so I felt it really important at that time to begin documenting, she said in a gallery talk. Sarah Christianson has photographed her fami