Jim Reese is a poet and prof at Mount Marty College in Yankton. His latest book, Ghost on Third, includes a poem titled “South Dakota Bumper Stickers.” Yes, even I could have written this one … and I wish I had. It’s simply a collection of sayings he’s seen on cars. Here are a few [...]
From our March/April 2010 Traveler:
Visit The Beanery during lunch and you’ll find a simple deli downtown Rapid City. Go on Friday or Saturday night and you’ll find yourself in the 1940s.
The Beanery transforms for its weekly 2nd and Main Dinner Show featuring music by the Potter family. Matriarch Clover Potter (a one-time Las [...]
The South Dakota State History Conference is less than a month away, and the agenda arrived in today’s mailbox. This year’s event (April 29-May 1) will focus on “Prairie Politics … From Territory to Today.”
The annual conference, hosted by the State Historical Society, is a too-well-kept secret. I’m as guilty as most of you for [...]
One sure sign of spring is when piles of tree branches, old furniture, and other used household items begin piling up in the front yards of Yankton’s residents for city wide cleanup. Think twice before you banish battered bicycles to the curb during spring cleaning.
In the Dakotiana section of our March/April issue, we wrote about [...]
Wish you could make that famous lemon cream cheese pie from Al’s Oasis in Oacoma? You’re not alone, and the crew at Al’s is happy to help. Customer demand for the popular recipe became so great, they began handing it out at the cash register. All you have to do is ask.
Al’s home-baked pies [...]
Yankton has always struggled to support a downtown coffee shop. So have many towns, larger and smaller, in our state. Too many of us just figure that coffee should be free — or five cents at best.
But coffee shops certainly add much to a business/retail street, and while spending the last few weeks in Pierre [...]
Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch [...]
By John Andrews
Our upcoming issue (May/June) will feature our third special 25th anniversary story on 25 things everyone should do in South Dakota. One of our ideas is to canoe the last wild stretch of the Missouri River from Yankton to Ponca, Neb. The rest of the river is all channels and reservoirs, but that [...]
By John Andrews
Our current issue mentions Marcia Dunsmore and Mollie O. Krafka, better known around Rapid City as the Shady Ladies. They make Black Hills history fun by staging humorous performances about various topics. The duo presented regularly at the Journey Museum through the winter, and we recently learned they are making themselves available to [...]
By Rebecca Johnson
Hello! I’m Rebecca and I am the new Editorial Assistant at South Dakota Magazine. I am a Yankton native and reside here with my husband, Jeremy, and our yellow lab, Tula. I’m excited to become more involved with the magazine as well as writing to you on our Editor’s Notebook.
Spring is finally here [...]
We are admirers of Valentine McGillycuddy, the physician and Pine Ridge Reservation agent who attended to Crazy Horse when the chief was on his deathbed, and who later became a key figure in the early days of Rapid City.
Thus we’ve also been interested in the preservation of his residence, which sits just off Mount Rushmore [...]
Thirty-two of South Dakota’s top artists have a 100-year-old muse this year; they are getting their inspiration from the bronze and marble and granite seat of government in South Dakota.
The Heritage Fund at the South Dakota State Historical Society has organized a special art show, and asked the artists to contribute photography, paintings or sculptures. [...]
By Bernie Hunhoff
Yes, a downtown Sioux Falls icon has fallen. Morning news report indicate that a motorist “under the influence” hit the Buck’s Mufflers’ mascot sometime Wednesday, knocking him to the ground. One Sioux Falls wit has already wondered why the drunk driver wasn’t available when the city was trying to topple the Zip Feed [...]
By John Andrews
We know that our larger towns like Sioux Falls, Rapid City and Huron have symphony orchestras, but we never thought about what their violin players do when their bows get shoddy. Turns out they probably seek the guidance of two experts in tiny Fulton.
Sisters Mary Wipf and Liz Soladay operate Con Brio Studio, [...]
We just learned from Pure Pierre Politics that distinguished Sioux Falls historian Art Huseboe died over the weekend. What a loss to all who love history, arts and education in South Dakota. The only good news is that Art’s lingering illness allowed many to express their affection for him over the last year. In June [...]