By Bernie Hunhoff
By Bernie Hunhoff
There are some who will disagree on this — but we think it’s great news that someone has stepped forward to preserve the 1904 Mundt Building (pictured), an anchor on Main Street in the little city of Hartford.
Hartford’s leaders reluctantly watched the downtown dwindle away, and the town has especially been [...]
By Bernie Hunhoff
As I was working on a story on Fort Pierre last week, I happened to meet Darby Nutter and much to my pleasant surprise I found that Darby was well acquainted with Berlye Seaman, the old man who lived along the Bad River Road.
We featured Berlye in 1997 and he quickly became a [...]
By Bernie Hunhoff
My mom is an Iowan by birth. In the 1960s, dad and mom would load as many of their kids as they could fit in a Ford Galaxy 500 and then off we’d go to visit the in-laws.
When we visited in late summer, dad always looked enviously at the Iowa corn fields. In [...]
By Bernie Hunhoff
A county in South Dakota once memorialized the grasshopper with two statues by the local courthouse.
I found that bit of trivia in a chapter of the new book, Smalltown Boy, Smalltown Girl, a new publication of the South Dakota Humanities Council. The authors are Eric Fowler and Sheila Delaney.
Delaney writes a bit about [...]
By John Andrews
When Percy Sutton died the day after Christmas, most major news outlets called him “the man who defended Malcolm X as a young lawyer.” Today Mark Tilsen remembers how Sutton helped bring KILI radio to the Pine Ridge.
Tilsen is the president of Native American Natural Foods, makers of the Tanka Bar. But 30 [...]