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SD's Tastiest Bucket List
January 10, 2017
... across the state, revealing the personalities and flavors that have made an impression on us in our 30+ years of exploring South Dakota. We've sampled enormous sandwiches at Manolis Grocery in Huron, German fry sausage in Hosmer, buffalo ravioli in Deadwood and every Wall Drug doughnut we can get our hands on, and we're always hungry for more.
So do you have any tips? Any new flavors or old secrets we just ...
Surprise Ingredient
October 12, 2016
Our Nov/Dec issue includes a story about a German cookie with a twist. Bernie Hunhoff visited a meeting of the SoDak Stamm chapter of the Germans from Russian Heritage Society to learn about it. Here are some of his photos that didn’t make the ...
Birth of a Brewery
October 5, 2016
... character called Fernson that we tell our story through. We’re both Lord of the Rings and Tolkien fans, so we were thinking of a wandering sort of sage, Gandolf-esque type person, and tied that into a German guy with a feather in his hat.
In our minds, [the can] looks like it could have been a beer can 50 years ago, but it exists today. We think it stands out on the shelf. You see across the country ...
The Road Less Traveled
... antique pianos in his Main Street shop in Stockholm.
His most prized pianos are two John Broadwood concert grands with connections to famous European composers (see sidebar). He also owns French and German pianos made in the mid-19th century and smaller square grands. One was made by Jonas Chickering in Boston in 1832, and may be the oldest privately owned Chickering. Misener knows of four others of that ...
Pedaling South Dakota
July 25, 2016
... “But we like South Dakota best!” says Jan. They intend to travel about 360 miles in the next eight days. They’ve agreed to post some reports from the road so we can go along.
DAY ONE: German Cuisine and a Stone ChurchWe took off from Yankton Sunday morning. We met Ella Berth and Edna Kalubt near the old stone church south of Menno. They told us that Albert Gunderson split the stones ...
The Golden Oldies
... for Ole Rolvaag led to his enrollment at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., although they never met because Professor Rolvaag died shortly after Krause arrived on campus. Krause longed to write of German homesteaders as Rolvaag had written about Norwegians. When Wind Without Rain appeared in 1939, critics immediately compared Krause to Rolvaag and eventually declared him to have surpassed his idol in ...
A Farmer’s Story
... did repeat it on occasion when I was asked to speak at various events.
Anderson and Reifel told the story like this: the boy grew up on the reservation speaking only the Dakota language and a little German. His teachers told him he must learn English if he wanted to be a farmer. “After all,” said one teacher, “you don’t know how to farm, so you’re going to have to ask.”
That ...
Noodles & Strudels for the Soul
German cuisine still unites the people of McPherson and Edmunds counties.
A Goodwin Institution
March 2, 2016
... 1916, tore it down and built a sturdy, concrete block garage. A three-step false front still reads “B. Kliegle Garage” in hand-painted letters.
Ben Kliegle was born in rural Deuel County to German immigrants in 1889. When he was 20, the Kliegles moved to Goodwin where they ran a draying operation. A couple years later, he moved to Racine, Wisconsin, where he learned how to work on heavy machinery ...
The Little Giant of USD
... times threw war in our faces.
Doc has believed in a global community since he was president of the international relations club at Northwestern University during the Depression. He still remembers the German speaker who predicted that war would come, and Germany would be blamed. He does not excuse Hitler, but he says the economic roots of World War II were fostered by greed in countries like the United States.
When ...
A 66 County Tour
February 17, 2016
... Scotland to see a new 5-by-10-foot mural that remembers a local veteran, painted by world renowned airbrush artist Mickey Harris. The painting is in honor of Leon Woehl, who was aboard a B-17 that crashed in Germany in 1944. The mural shows the crash, and Nazi soldiers searching for Woehl and the other B-17 crew members who hid in the woods until their capture.
John has completed 18 of the 66 counties. All 18 are ...
Risen from Ashes
February 2, 2016
The first settlement in the Dimock area was in 1879, when a large group of German immigrants came from Wisconsin to South Dakota. They built a wooden church to accommodate their Catholic community, but in 1908 the church was destroyed by fire. The current Saints Peter and Paul Catholic ...
Best of the Web
January 13, 2016
... The Crazy Horse Volksmarch gives hikers a unique view of the mountain carving in progress.
Favorite FoodFreeman’s Savory Soup — Summer savory provides a subtle punch to a traditional German dish.
Most Popular SportLove for the Game — Six baseball lifers explain their passion for our national pastime.
Favorite BusinessBrookings’ Rhubarb King — Jan Sanderson ...
The Puritanical Potter
November 4, 2015
... work, portfolio and copious notes, she started the process of building it all over again, with some reference books, her hands, a hammer and nails.
Raised on a dairy farm in central Wisconsin by her German Lutheran grandparents, she was infused from birth with Weber’s Protestant work ethic. “On the farm you improvise,” says Meyer, who sometimes uses the handle Mud Woman. “If something ...
Hutchinson County Haven
July 30, 2015
Germans from Russia sought a new life here in the 1870s. Photos by Joel Schwader.
Confessions of a First Generation South Dakotan
July 9, 2015
... didn’t give heritage a lot of consideration in our meals. That cornbread and ham and beans had roots in the South, but I simply considered it my family’s home cooking. Hubs’ family has strong German roots that produced cabbage burgers (kraut bierocks), punskies (a fried bread), potato pancakes, peppernuts (pfeffernusse, but theirs included beets and were a bright pink color with a bread-like consistency) ...
South Dakota’s Little Finland
... Finnish in the 1940s and 1950s. Today’s members pray and sing in English, but many can still speak their ancestors’ language, and several families keep in contact with their overseas cousins.
Germans settled on the farms north of Frederick. Norwegians and Swedes also helped start the town. But they all join gaily in the new Finn Fest, and much of the fun centers around the boot-throwing and wife-carrying ...
