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The Truck Stop-Titanic Connection
December 14, 2017
... stop analyzing blizzards, exaggerating about blizzards past and creating clever and often obscene blizzard metaphors. I've waited out winter storms not only in Kennebec, but also at Rapid City, Sturgis, Pierre and Murdo truck stops, sometimes for as long as 48 hours.
Mostly I'm quiet during truck stop blizzard conversations, because I admire these storms for their strength that transcends human affairs. Expressing ...
Timber Lake’s Holiday Tradition
... issue readers anticipate. “Each year we get calls from readers who didn’t receive the cookbook,” Kathy says. “Two years in a row we got a call from the Department of Revenue in Pierre the day after the holiday cookbook was mailed. Both times, I thought, ‘Oh now, did I mess up on my sales tax report?’ But both times it was the office staff letting us know that their newspaper ...
Old Highway 16
... along 237th Street, mostly past pastures and grasslands. You cross two creeks, one called the South Fork Bad River, which flows northward to the Bad River, which flows into the mighty Missouri at Fort Pierre.
Bridges on the creeks seem scary, but they hold a car.
Cottonwood to Wall
Pavement is gone from the road east of Wall.
The apocalyptic segment runs onto Hwy 14 just east of the ...
November/December 2017
... Summit.
Saintly Swindler: William Kroeger played doctor and preacher in Epiphany.
The Winter Deer Hunt: Initiating a new generation into a South Dakota tradition. [read more]
Goodnight, Mrs. Pierre: Ida McNeil's radio reports helped unite West River. [read more]
Manhattan Island: South Dakota's most populated island is welcoming a few newcomers.
2017 Gift Guide: Our annual ...
Terry’s Domain
... establishment’s interior rotating above the bar. Termes’ sphere that encapsulates in one continuous scene Lewis and Clark’s voyage up the Missouri hangs in the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre.
But back to Terry Hill. Two things happened when he was a student at Black Hills State University in the early 1970s. Termes and others brought famed engineer and building designer Buckminster Fuller, ...
Painting Hay Camp
October 4, 2017
... merchant town with dusty streets and stagecoaches and freight wagons and lots of wood frame buildings. One brother had a sawmill.
Grace and her mother came out in September of 1885, by train to Fort Pierre, where they would have gotten onto a stagecoach because there was no train across the Missouri River. I always think of this woman who had just been walking along Commonwealth Avenue in Boston stepping ...
Looping Along
... extinction.
Norbeck became a well driller. He began to champion the notion of a state park in the southern Black Hills after a trip to the Custer area in 1905, but little was accomplished until he arrived in Pierre as a state legislator and persuaded his fellow lawmakers to create a state game preserve. When the park was fenced (under Norbeck’s supervision) in 1914, he estimated there were possibly as few ...
Our Three States
... of Sioux Falls to the cafes in White and Kadoka. No efforts were spared. I dined at the fanciest French restaurant in Sioux Falls, climbed Mount Rushmore and spoke on the steps of the state capitol in Pierre. I also ate at a pork roast in Pukwana, hunted pheasant where none existed and had a newspaper interview in a small northeastern town, where I had to ask all the questions as well as answer them. I therefore ...
Happy 200th Birthday
June 14, 2017
Our May/June issue includes a story on Fort Pierre and its 200th anniversary. Bernie Hunhoff visited and took several photos. Here are a few extras that didn't fit into the issue.
Pierre’s Treasure
May 4, 2017
Our May/June issue includes a story on the Treasury Inn, an imposing mansion in Pierre. John Andrews visited the home earlier this year and took several photos. Here are some that didn’t make the magazine.
Our Conspicuous Monuments
May 3, 2017
... Missouri River and placed the 190th mile marker on November 18, 1891. Then they broke for winter.
In spring of 1892, Bates arranged for several rail cars of monuments to be shipped from Sioux Falls to Pierre, than delivered via steamboat to Kenel, on the west bank of the Missouri, just south of the state line. The crew recommenced their work on June 6. As they crossed the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, ...
May/June 2017
... Brownotter and other Native American veterans keep flags on a hill above Rock Creek. Photo by Bernie Hunhoff.
200 Years a Town: Born in the the earliest days of Dakota's frontier era, Fort Pierre has a history of throwing parties.
Dynamite Girl: Unlucky Helen Sieler survived Sioux Falls' Powder House explosion of 1936.
The Art of Growing Grapes: Cold-hardy vines thrive ...
Signs of Life
April 26, 2017
... right the prairie chickens held court. I couldn’t have asked for a better location to watch the events unfold.
April 1
Evening pasque. After taking a brief nap in Pierre, I headed back to Sioux Falls along the backroads. In Hanson County, I saw several stands of pasqueflowers in bloom. I spent an hour or two shooting their portraits in the last light of a rare day with ...
A Lost Monument
April 5, 2017
If Pierre’s not the geographical center of North America, then where is it?
Mementos of a Missouri River Atlantis
March 1, 2017
... bridge was built across the river in 1893. The Milwaukee Road rail line crossed the river and the island in 1905.
By 1913, the island park was hosting programs on the Chautauqua circuit. The Pierre Weekly Free Press, apprising readers of a Chautauqua scheduled for July 5-10, 1913, said, “the island has been put in fine shape and is one of the beauty spots of South Dakota.” The Chautauqua ...
Credit Or Blame The Aberdeen Priest
February 21, 2017
... Daylight Saving Time, the minimum wage, nuclear waste and even dove hunting.
Our process of voter-enacted laws and referendums is getting a lot of attention in this year’s legislative session in Pierre. Depending on your point of view, you can credit or blame a Catholic priest from Aberdeen for all the fuss. Father Robert Haire is known as the father of the initiative and referendum. Born in Michigan ...
For the Birds
January 25, 2017
... little Northern Saw-whet owl in parks around southeast South Dakota. He reported three of them at Newton Hills State Park. Although these owls can be found along the Missouri River, particularly in the Pierre area at Farm Island and a few other hot spots, I did not know they would come this far south and east. So I went looking too. I failed miserably. On the third visit, I found dead field mice hanging on ...
A Tasty Resolution
January 24, 2017
... one is plenty, especially if you just finished the buffalo burger.
HOT ROAST BEEF at any of South Dakota’s livestock auction barns, because you dare not serve average beef to ranchers. Fort Pierre, Burke and Sisseton are a few favorites.
STRAWBERRY PIE, the standard at Al’s Oasis in Oacoma for decades, is still available in season but Chef Donnie Dominiack now bakes a lemon cream ...
Island Winter
January 17, 2017
Two islands lie near Pierre — Farm Island and LaFramboise. Snow and ice lend a different perspective to their beauty. Photos by Lance Bertram.
