In our current issue we have a short article on the mystery that surrounds Harvey Dunn’s iconic prairie painting The Prairie is My Garden. Mary Lou Banner, of Roseville, Calif., wrote us to say she believes the characters in the painting are her aunt and two cousins on their farm near Isabel. Since the issue appeared, [...]

Our thoughts were pleasantly vaulted to spring today when we received an advance copy of a new book about baseball. We’re Gonna Win, Twins! tells the story of the first 50 years of Major League Baseball in the Twin Cities. A good chunk of South Dakota lies within “Twins Territory” (another of those abstract geographical regions [...]

It’s a bright and sunny day in Gobbler’s Knob, Pennsylvania, which means that when Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his hole this morning and saw his shadow, we were all doomed to six more weeks of winter. I’m not sure how much stock I put in the prognostications of groundhogs, woodchucks, whistle-pigs or whatever you want [...]

By John Andrews Yesterday’s Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star carried a good article about the newest efforts to solve the problem of Whiteclay. Bruce BonFleur, who runs a Christian outreach group in the tiny village, wants to clean up the town and build businesses, including a recycling center. Whiteclay and its liquor stores have long been a thorny [...]

By Bernie Hunhoff Seldom does the tenor of the South Dakota state legislature rise to the level of outrage. Lawmakers here can argue life and death issues without waking the lobbyists in the back row. But on Friday some wronged auto dealers came to the House State Affairs Committee to lament their treatment by auto makers Chrysler [...]

By John Andrews I don’t remember how old I was when I made my television debut as a member of Captain 11’s crew. I do know it was my birthday, so my family drove from Lake Norden to Sioux Falls for the show. I also remember we had this new-fangled contraption called a VCR on which [...]