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Peninsula Paradise
March 3, 2021
By Michael Zimny
Growing up in Chicago, my youthful idea of a pastoral Shangri-la was straight out of the old children's book Heidi, and maybe Lassie flicks on WGN.
Heidi was a German Swiss girl who spent her days skipping though the emerald valleys of the Swiss Alps in a dirndl, herding goats, reading Bible stories and warming the heart of her disgruntled adoptive grandfather, ...
Our Case for History
... scientist at Princeton, New Jersey, and found him courteous but leery. Other American journalists and editors had mangled his words — not intentionally, Einstein knew, but because he thought in German and his concepts were, to say the least, complex. Case proposed what he called a “new idea” in magazine composition.
He would submit questions in writing to Einstein, involve a translator, ...
Our Favorite Eats
December 21, 2020
... a few years ago. CLOSED BY COVID.
REUBEN SANDWICH (sauerkraut & corned beef on rye) at the Dakota Cafe in Hosmer. Knoephla soup — a specialty of the cook, JoAnne Gisi, who grew up with German cuisine — was their Thursday special. CLOSED.
GERMAN FRY SAUSAGE and cheese buttons, was served Thursdays at Dakota Jo’s in Tolstoy before it closed, but the sausage is still available ...
Rescuing a Colonial
... bathrooms in every room.” So Lutz enlisted the help of Jeremy Phelps, the new business manager at Aaron Swan and Associates. Phelps wrote his master’s thesis on turning a midcentury castle in Germany into a bed and breakfast.
Lutz and Phelps nervously exposed the foundation, cutting away volunteer trees that had grown around the foundation, trapping moisture ...
Stories Beneath the Stones
... flew in Korea, and built a distinguished military resume that made him eligible for interment at Arlington National Cemetery had his family wished it. Red Pesek’s family told May that he fought German troops in Europe and also read Mein Kampf to better understand his enemy. Andrews and Pesek are buried at Black Hills National Cemetery.
Recent graduate Courtney Buck met a woman with an unusual set ...
Manganese Memories
November 7, 2018
... percent of our steel needs … have come from Russia, where it was mined practically with slave labor producing a very economical ore." Most likely, the short-lived Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between Nazi Germany and Russia impressed upon U.S. planners the need for manganese-independence.
In 1941, the increased demand led the federal government to build a pilot plant to experiment with cost-effective methods ...
Sailing by Balloon
... Pilatre, from which we get “pilot.”
A farmstead near Brandon, as seen from 1,000 feet overhead.
West has flown at many events and places, including the Kentucky Derby, Germany, three South Dakota gubernatorial inaugurations and Devil’s Tower. But ask ballooners about their sport, and two cities come up. One is Albuquerque, New Mexico, where precision navigation is possible; ...
Little Manor on the Prairie
... through open windows. Andy stripped the bed sheets and told us about some of the people they’ve met. Such discussions are what he loves best about the B&B. “There have been people here from Germany, Italy, Australia, Japan, all over. I had no idea Laura was popular around the world. The most interesting guest we had was a Muslim from the United Arab Emirates. We had a conversation about politics ...
Traveling Pine Ridge Today
... place where they can forget they’re in Pine Ridge.”
He is intrigued with customers who come from afar because they’ve read or heard about the Lakota and their history. “We get German people who like to trade coins, and a man from Switzerland was here who grew up in Italy. People from China come. You hardly feel isolated, at least not here at the coffee shop.”
That’s true ...
March/April 2018
... Photo by Bernie Hunhoff.
A Journal in Springtime: An excerpt from Gathering from the Grassland: a Plains Journal by Hermosa writer Linda M. Hasselstrom.
Ship in a Bottle: German prisoners of war worked, played and connected with South Dakotans during World War II.
Endangered by Lack of Fishing: The last resort on Hartford Beach seeks children with fishing ...
The Dark Tower
... a raid on the tower because of our war games down at Perman’s Creek, a lovely, cool place south of Delmont with tall cottonwoods and grasses. One day we would fight the Japanese, another day the Germans, and then the North Koreans. We were armed with every weapon the GIs had except tanks, and suffered many wounds and fatalities, but we were always brave, and we always won.
Jim and I and my best friend, ...
Timber Lake’s Holiday Tradition
... Timber Lake share recipes for a local holiday cookbook. Kathy Nelson and her late husband Jim, longtime publishers of the Timber Lake Topic, began printing the cookbook in 2003. “We get quite a few German and German-Russian recipes, reflecting the ethnic population here,” Kathy says. “Recipes for kuchen and knoephla soup spelled all different ways.”
The books arrive with the newspapers ...
Firmly Planted in South Dakota
... highest civilian award from the king for 50 years of service. Niels’ father served in the army and also received a medal from the king. His cousin was a member of the king’s cabinet during the German occupation. When he traveled abroad, Niels visited aunts, uncles and cousins.
Hansen attributed his love of art to his father, Andreas, a fresco painter and a loving, supportive figure in the son’s ...
The Man Who Played Christ
... longtime Spearfish friend said, somewhat sheepishly, "I find I can't talk about Josef Meier without quoting him, because he was such an articulate man. And I can't quote him without imitating that wonderful German accent of his. So I imitate him, but with the utmost respect."
Charlotte Carver, first South Dakota Arts Council executive director, recalled Meier as "a gallant gentleman. He possessed a true continental ...
Mementos of a Missouri River Atlantis
March 1, 2017
... one mile long, with a Great purpotion ceder timber near the middle of it.” According to local histories, fur traders who built a post here in 1811 called it “Little Cedar.”
The German naturalist Prince Maximilian of Wied encountered the island on his 1832 journey up the Missouri with artist Karl Bodmer. “On the steep banks of this long, narrow island which lies near the southwest ...
A Lonely Place at Ideal
... Heinrich and Bertha), was photographed before abandoning their homestead for Minnesota.
Heinrich Gustav Koenig was serving his ninth year as pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church, a rural German congregation south of Canova. His salary of $500 per year was supplemented with beef, pork, eggs, garden produce and oats from his congregants.
The Koenigs fording the White River before ...
A Tasty Resolution
January 24, 2017
... years ago.
REUBEN SANDWICH (sauerkraut & corned beef on rye) at the Dakota Cafe in Hosmer. On Thursdays, enjoy it with knoephla soup — a specialty of the cook, JoAnne Gisi, who grew up with German cuisine.
GERMAN FRY SAUSAGE and cheese buttons, served Thursdays at Dakota Jo’s in Tolstoy. The sausage comes from Kauk’s Meat Market in Eureka. Try the rhubarb desserts in season.
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