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Bittersweet in Leola
... start a bakery, which was eventually taken over by Gill’s brother, Tubby, and his wife, Agnes. “They made bread, buns and rolls — and kuchen was a specialty,” Beck says. Kuchen, a German fruit pastry pie, is now South Dakota’s state dessert.
Swanson Bakery was a mainstay for decades in the little McPherson County town of 440. “People passing through Leola would make a point ...
Watertown’s Pizza Champ
... muenster cheese instead of the port cheddar, but it wasn’t strong enough. Same with the lingonberries blended into a drizzle. He’s experimenting with tiny pieces of Granny Smith apple and a German beer reduction drizzled over the top.
There’s beer in the dough, too, a constantly evolving combination of high-gluten flour and rye that ferments for four days and sits out for 10 hours before ...
Following Black Elk’s Good Red Road
... Rosary's promotional materials in the 1940s.
In the autumn of 1904, he was tending to a sick boy who lived north of Holy Rosary when Father Joseph Lindebner arrived. The Jesuit priest, a native of Germany, was well-liked by many reservation residents, who called him “the Little Father.” Lindebner had baptized the lad earlier, and reportedly became upset that Black Elk was there with his tobacco ...
Christmas Cookies With a Twist
Ammonia is the surprising ingredient in this traditional German recipe.
Summit's Lutefisk Tradition
... read native language newspapers and engaged in cultural practices brought over from Europe. When war broke out and patriotic fervor swept the nation, a shadow of suspicion was cast over these families (Germans specifically, but Scandinavians were sometimes included). Dregni believes get-togethers such as lutefisk dinners helped families retain their Norwegian-ness. Summit’s began at the Hope Lutheran ...
South Dakota’s Stockholm
... owned this? Who played it? It’s just fascinating,” he said. “The detective work is fun.”
He bills one of his pianos as “the piano that Brahms nearly played.” Famous German composer and pianist Johannes Brahms was scheduled to perform on it but became ill and did not play. Another he has connected to a story of the hiding of the Liberty Bell from British troops in Philadelphia.
As ...
Painting the Trophies
... of His Times,” noted that the museum benefactor lived and hunted at a time when sensibilities were quite different.
Even for his own time, Fred Hatterscheidt was unique. He was born in Cologne, Germany in 1893 and came to America as a child with his parents, who were looking for an opportunity to farm. They arrived in Aberdeen when he was 10.
Hatterscheidt was with Frank Scepaniak in Siberia ...
Let’s Go Shopping in Scotland
... head hat.
Campbell helped Scotlanders relocate to the present site in 1881 when the railroad arrived. In its early years, the town had two shopping districts because of language barriers between Germans from Russia and other settlers. The former group built stores along Currie Street (now Curry Street), which still intersects Main Street on the west side of town. However, as immigrant families became ...
Tapping Into Something Sweet
... of syrup.
The average sugar content of raw sap from a sugar maple is 2 percent on the Brix scale, a measure of the number of grams of sucrose found per 100 grams of liquid. (It’s named for German mathematician and engineer Adolf Brix, who helped develop it in the 19th century.) Silver, red, amur and other species of maple fall below that. Maple syrup is achieved when the sap reaches 66 percent ...
A Historical Treasure Hunt
... republished in its entirety in 1918 in the historical society’s South Dakota Historical Collections. English said the men trained under a regular army soldier named Frederick Plughoff, a 36-year-old from Germany. “His strict discipline was quite irksome but we had enlisted to become soldiers and to serve under the flag of our country and we obeyed all orders and soon became quite proficient in drill and ...
Warriors First
... Veterans Affairs, in a Veterans Day pow wow.
A generation later, U.S. military officials reached out to tribal leaders during World War I, asking them to encourage young men to join the fight against Germany and its allies. Robert Dunsmore, the veterans’ service officer for the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, says oral history suggests that a general visited with a chief from the Standing Rock Reservation. ...
Travel Like It’s 1938
... 1892 are exhibited on the second floor, but 1936 is missing.
ROCKPORT COLONY
Hanson County
1938
The Rockport Hutterite Colony is the home of a stern religious sect of Swiss-German people who had lived in Russia before settling here. They retain the curious dress, customs and beliefs of their ancestors, living in secluded rural colonies where their industry and thrift enable them ...
The Nemo Life
... working as the “head of props” at the Excalibur when he first saw the unusual old piano that had been relegated to storage. He learned that it had once been part of the décor for a German-themed restaurant.
The coin-operated attraction wasn’t just another player piano with a keyboard. It featured an entire orchestra — drums, cymbals, flutes, a horn and tambourine all playing ...
Larger Than Life
... were of average height, as were his sisters, Lydia and Hazel. A brother, Henry Jr. (later called Prince) was tall but he never reached August’s legendary height or weight.
Mr. Klindt was born in Germany in 1850 and studied to be a doctor, but his education didn’t qualify him for the medical profession in the United States so he immigrated to Dakota Territory. He settled by Elm Creek in Buffalo ...
Retracing Roads to Our Round Barns
... County, which has shared a county fair with Lawrence County since 1980. And who wouldn’t want to share such fairgrounds?
The white-washed buildings include two long, rectangular barracks that housed German POWs during World War II. The prisoners helped farmers with the sugar beet harvest. Big-branched cottonwoods shade the buildings and grass. The entire fairgrounds are on the National Registry of Historic ...
Lemmon: The Cowboy Capital
... cowboy modesty: the “sandwich” is a delicious sirloin coulotte.
Chislic is also popular at Benny’s, but Johnson doesn’t use lamb, like restaurants in Hutchinson County, where Germans-from-Russia first brought chislic to the Dakotas. He grills cubes of —you guessed it — beef sirloin ball tip.
That seems appropriate, however, in a city corralled by cowboys.
Editor’s ...
The Real Hero
... After basic training he was assigned to the headquarters company of the 109th Engineering Regiment in Rapid City.
Scissons signed up for a second hitch three years later, a perilous moment in history. Germany overran Poland in the fall of 1939, plunging Europe into a war that many Americans feared would soon be at their doorsteps. Scissons and every other volunteer surely understood that the Guard might soon ...
Raclette: A Toasty Alpine Delicacy
... Swiss treat called raclette, and a Sioux Falls woman named Sonja Hoffmann promotes its deliciousness as part of her online business, Raclette Corner.
The daughter of a Swiss mother, Hoffmann grew up in Germany, but her husband Marc’s career as a software consultant brought their family to Sioux Falls in 1998. She started selling European cookware online a few years later. “I decided that as much ...
The Beauty That is Hermosa
... Hesnard, a community booster who died in 2012.
Taking that as a challenge, Lintz concocted a hearty pizza with Canadian bacon, sausage, pineapple, sauerkraut and jalapenos. He called it the Flaming German Samoan, and it quickly became a customer favorite. Other standards are the Oriental Texas Tornado and the Big Fat Greek Pizza. “We like to show people that there’s more to pizza than just ...
