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Double the Fun in Carthage
... funds to build the Coughlin Campanile, a 165-foot-tall tower of Indiana white limestone, red brick and concrete that still stands on the SDSU campus along Medary Avenue in Brookings.
Kim and Dave Van Asperen periodically open the former Carthage Opera House as an antique store.
Disaster is a familiar story in South Dakota towns, and Carthage has seen its share. A fire in 1910 destroyed ...
Ramming Through the Mickelson Trail
... the project seemed to benefit from “divine intervention” after Mickelson’s death. Capable people would appear to tackle aspects of development at just the right times. Among them was Dave Snyder, an ag businessman from Pierre and a member of a national Rails to Trails organization. Snyder contributed significantly to the project when he learned that $1 million was needed to match state ...
The Elevator
By Bernie Hunhoff
A skeleton of the Rauville Grain Company still attracts attention north of Watertown.
Dave Goos recalls walking into Lampert Lumber Company in Sioux Falls and buying 9,000 pounds of 20-penny coated sinker nails.
“We were building a new wood crib elevator in Cavour and that’s what ...
Stopping the Green Glacier
... focused on grassland management. The program included the idea of cedar control through burning.
Grim was still working in the county treasurer’s office, where she spent 27 years. “One day, Dave came into the courthouse and said, ‘Sara, what are we going to do about this green glacier?’” she recalls. He had brought an overlay showing the cedar encroachment in Gregory County. ...
Tasty Theatrics of the Wine Cellar
... suggested that I should buy the Wine Cellar. At first, I thought ‘no thank you,’ but my stepdad told me we should do this. He said it’ll be fun. We can work together.”
Her stepdad is Dave Hirning, a longtime Black Hills contractor. “I think it was perhaps his way of making sure I had a career and wasn’t just galavanting around the country,” she laughs.
Christy ...
Desert or Not?
... dared to use the “D” word. Yes, they slightly underestimated the average rainfall, and they underappreciated the tenacity of the native grasses. They also couldn’t know how ranchers like Dave Ollila, Dan O’Brien and others might treat the land.
However, it once was a great American desert. Will it be a desert again?
Sweeney and other modern-day scientists say that depends on climate, ...
Pearls on the Prairie
... the treasures blossoming on his land.
“It’s not something you’re going to see from 100 yards away. You usually have to be standing on it to be able to see these plants,” says Dave Ode, a retired Game, Fish and Parks Department botanist. “The prairie is a place where you have to look closely, because there’s more there than might meet the eye.”
Fens are distinguishable ...
Retracing Roads to Our Round Barns
... he and his family may eventually find a way to incorporate it into the lodge.
Draper
The Freier barn near Draper was built from a pre-cut mail order kit, possibly from the Gordon Van Tine Company of Davenport, Iowa. It was used as a sheep barn for decades.
Renner
Blocks for a round barn on the northern outskirts of Renner were made from sand and gravel collected at a nearby pit in 1917. The Sorum family ...
Lemmon: The Cowboy Capital
... "Boss Cowman."
But not even petrified art can upstage cowboys and cattle as Lemmon’s top attraction. “Let’s face it, this town has been a cattle town since the start,” says Dave Johnson, the economic development director. “Ranching is our foundation. Everybody feels it when cattle prices go up or down, whether or not they own cattle themselves.”
Johnson says the ...
Baseball at Four Corners
... outfielders once glided after lazy fly balls.
About 15 years later, the baseball bug re-emerged. “My cousins and brothers and I talked about the possibilities of it,” says Mike Hand, whose father, Dave, played for Four Corners. “And we just ran from there.”
Volunteers showed up, just like they did 50 years earlier. “We found the dimensions and mowed it,” Hand says. “We ...
Forever Close to Home
February 3, 2021
... Madison. “I could hear Danny Olson’s play-by-play voice when I got to the plate. My knees were shaking,” he said. “I also remember striking out three or four times versus Dave Gassman of Canova in the quarterfinal game.”
Then there was the year the hometown Lakers lost to Eureka 6-5 in the semifinal game. “The game ended when manager Dale Jacobsen had our best ...
Sky High Meal Deal
April 10, 2020
... send South Dakota Magazine the receipt and we'll subtract the cost of your meal from the purchase price of our newest book, Sky High South Dakota, a collection of beautiful aerial photos by Yankton pilot Dave Tunge.
Ordinarily the book costs $39.95 plus s/h, but because we want to give South Dakota's hometown restaurants a boost, your price is $39.95 minus the cost of your meal — whether it's $5 or ...
Sky High
November 21, 2018
A ride in aerial photographer Dave Tunge’s plane offers new perspective on South Dakota.
November/December 2018
... horseback.
Takuwe: Lakota artists, musicians and poets explore the 'why' of Wounded Knee.
On the Glacier Trail: A journey along South Dakota's Highway 10.
Christmas Pudding from Down Under: Dave Hedt of Faulkton shares a traditional taste from his native land.
From Coach to Congress: Kennebec's Jim Abdnor was a leader on the ball diamond and inside the U.S. Capitol. [read more]
Sky High ...
The Art of Growing Grapes
... word out to farmers and ranchers that it’s one thing to spray grandma’s tomatoes once in a while by mistake, but it’s another thing if you get your neighbor’s grapes,” says Dave Greenlee, who owns Tucker’s Walk Vineyard and Farm Winery with his wife, Sue, near Garretson. “They’re perennials and we’re trying to make a living at this.”
Russ ...
The Man Who Saved the Buffalo
... most of his family are buried is a half-mile from their home.
“We have buffalo on our ranch that are probably descendants of the Dupree herd,” chimed in Karen Hump, who with her husband, Dave, raise 300 head of buffalo on their Cheyenne River Reservation ranch. Kathy and Karen are sisters. Dave is a great-grandson of Chief Hump.
With that, this old writer’s curiosity was sparked, and ...
A Man and His Guitar
July 19, 2018
... someone’s got their old-time chops: If you walk into the room and say, ‘Hey, let’s play Sally Goodin,’ and they know how to do it.”
In 1998, he met banjo player Trappor Mason, bassist Dave Curington, and mandolin player Dan Cross, which led to the formation of his Spearfish based band, Six Mile Road. Twenty years of playing together has refined their progressive bluegrass sound, and given ...
Have Scoop Shovel, Will Travel
March 21, 2018
By Paul Higbee
Travelers try to free their car during a fierce blizzard.
Dave Junek, a lifelong West River rancher who has intently observed winters since the 1930s, considers the infamous Blizzard of ’49 the worst storm. No surprise there. But the nearly ...
Old Highway 16
... like the two-lane are peaceful folks who just aren’t in a big hurry.”
South Dakota’s biggest car nut agrees. “People who like the back roads are our kind of people,” says Dave Geisler of the Pioneer Auto Show in Murdo, a sprawling indoor/outdoor museum of collectible cars, motorcycles, tractors, toys and Western memorabilia.
Geisler says Murdo changed with each of the three ...
Our Three States
... you have received an invitation to be there. In South Dakota people visit all the time, with or without an invitation. It can even be done at their offices or over the telephone, as in, “I called Dave on the phone and we just visited for a while.”
Say — South Dakotans are polite people and wouldn’t think of saying things like, “Yo! Listen up,” in the middle of a conversation. ...
