Falling into Winter

Sioux Falls photographer Christian Begeman captured the season's first snow. [read more]

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Food

Turton’s Jelly Makers

Nothing is canned about Char Barrie’s jelly and jam enterprise. [read more ]

Travel

What Makes Hecla?

It’s the three F’s: farming, fishing and fowl. [read more ]

History

Pedestrian Politics

How Yankton’s Meridian Bridge almost didn’t reach its 100th birthday. [read more ]

Ramming Through the Mickelson Trail

Outdoors

What’s in the Water at Wallace?

The tiny town is home to a family of federal duck stamp champions. [read more ]

Culture

What the Bones Say

Ree Heights ‘kill sites’ reveal plains history. [read more ]

What’s in the Water at Wallace?

Business

Mountain-made Furniture

Black Hills craftsmen create natural, durable home furnishings. [read more ]

Tasty Theatrics of the Wine Cellar

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November 13

The Bijou Hills in Brule County are a quiet place, but on this date in 1951 an unemployed laborer from Brookings named Robert Thwing kidnapped and raped a schoolteacher, and then murdered his uncle over a sum of money. Thwing was apprehended by police and at trial his lawyers attempted to argue Thwig was mentally unfit for punishment. The jury, however, failed to buy this argument and Thwing was sentenced to life behind bars in 1952. Twenty-two years later, Thwing's sentence was commuted and two years after that he was let out on bail. He died of cancer in 1984.