Featured Stories
Firmly Planted in South Dakota
Brookings horticulturist Niels Hansen developed fruits, flowers and farm crops for the Northern Plains.
The Man Who Played Christ
Josef Meier took up the cross 8,999 times, and brought the Passion Play to Spearfish.
The Fort Sisseton Kid
Though he steered clear of politics himself, Robert J. Perry knew just how to use them to save a crumbling ...
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Columns
May 3, 2017
Our Conspicuous Monuments
The border between the Dakotas is marked with quartzite. [read More]
April 5, 2017
A Lost Monument
If Pierre’s not the geographical center of North America, then where is it? [read More]
March 28, 2017
South Dakota: Superpower
West River was on the front lines of the Cold War. [read More]
March 1, 2017
Mementos of a Missouri River Atlantis
Depression-era sculptures from American Island accentuate Chamberlain’s downtown. [read More]
February 21, 2017
Credit Or Blame The Aberdeen Priest
South Dakotans enjoy hands-on government thanks to Father Robert Haire. [read More]