Our next slideshow is going to be a hodge-podge of tulip photos. If you have a tulip photo you’d like to share, email katie@iw.net. If you don’t have one, now is a good time to go out and get one. Send photos by Wednesday, May 6.
Photo by Carol Klein of Sioux Falls
Yesterday the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced their 2009 list of the 11 most endangered historic places in America. The grand, crumbling buildings on the Human Services Center were included on that list – an important step toward saving and restoring the campus.
The HSC buildings were chosen for their grandeur but also because [...]
By John Andrews
The police log is one of the more popular sections of any newspaper, right up there with the obituaries. It’s even more entertaining to read when the writer adds wry comments and witty observations.
That’s why I wish I subscribed to the Custer County Chronicle so I could read Deputy Seth Thompson’s weekly column. [...]
By John Andrews
When is a five-dollar bill worth $40,000? When it’s an 1875 note issued by the Merchants National Bank in Deadwood and signed by Seth Bullock.
Collectors are bidding online for the 134-year-old bill, which will also be at the Central States Numismatic Society’s annual convention in Cincinnati April 29 through May 2. The quick [...]
Dafna Michaelson is making a 50-state journey across America, looking for “problem solvers and idea generators” who are making a difference in communities. She maintains a journal that provides an interesting (if predictably nice) report on the places and people she encounters.
Dafna arrived in South Dakota several days ago, flying into Rapid City and then [...]
By Bernie Hunhoff
Our native son Tom Brokaw suggested to the New York Times this week that the Dakotas have too many colleges and universities for our sparse population. He even offered a solution: joining the two states into a Dakota Territory Public University System with satellite offices and a single administration. Here’s an excerpt:
In [...]
The editors of the Wessington Springs True Dakotan noted this week that it has been a long, hard winter for their oldest reader, 108-year-old Anna Stoehr. But Anna isn’t complaining. She still lives on her own. She bakes cookies and bread regularly.
She told her son recently, “I’m really getting tired of this snow! I’m getting [...]
by Roger Holtzmann
In the course of researching a story today I came across the name of Allen, South Dakota. I couldn’t place it right off hand, but instead of looking the town up on a map as I might have in the past, I Googled it. Here’s what I found at Wikipedia.
“Allen is a census-designated [...]
By John Andrews
Many early South Dakota towns shared the same fate. After a few boom years they faded away because they lost out on the county seat or the railroad passed them by. If that was all that happened to tiny St. Elmo in Gregory County, its townspeople would have been happy. But St. Elmo’s [...]
By John Andrews
Since the weather was so nice Sunday I spent a few hours cleaning my garage. In one corner, we have our “rummage sale pile,” which right now includes about four items, two of which I believe to be broken (kids don’t really need to sit totally upright in a high chair anyway, do [...]
By John Andrews
As the staffers of South Dakota Magazine sat around a big conference table eating cake and ice cream in honor of our marketing director’s birthday, 22 South Dakotans pounded the Boston pavement during the annual Boston Marathon.
“How long is that again?” one staffer asked between bites of white cake with whipped cream frosting [...]
South Dakota’s Charlie Battery soldiers are proud of their coyote mascot, so they were somewhat disheartened when they heard that they would have to abandon it for a Wyoming bronco when they deploy to Kuwait this month because the 147th was being blended with a battalion from Wyoming.
However, the South Dakota National Guard’s Major Gen. [...]
By Bernie Hunhoff
Betty Jay of Mobridge just sent us a clipping from Carpinteria, Calif., of a modest little historic house with interesting roots in South Dakota.
According to a story in the Coastal View News by Jaine Toth, the Chaffee House (shown above … click to enlarge) originated on a hardscrabble farm near Herreid where pioneer [...]
By John Andrews
There’s a report today that a fourth eagle has been killed in South Dakota. This one was shot in the far northeast corner of Roberts County. A motorist spotted the wounded bird and it was taken to Bramble Park Zoo in Watertown, where it was euthanized.
Three other eagles have already been shot in [...]
We’re No. 1 in buffalo and No. 2 in alfalfa.
Those are the newest rankings of South Dakota, accordig to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
We’re also No. 2 in flaxseed, honey, lambs born and sunflower seeds.
We’re No. 3 in wheat, oats, Proso millet and winter wheat.
No. 4 in all hay production.
No. 5 in all sheeps and [...]