Stopping the Green Glacier

Cedar trees are invading South Dakota ranchland, but landowners are fighting back. [read more]

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Food

Summit's Lutefisk Tradition

We joke about it more than eat it, but lutefisk was serious business in places like Summit. [read more ]

Travel

The Humor of Rochford

How does a town with no people have a mall and a university? [read more ]

History

George Kingsbury: Eyewitness to History

Our Father of Journalism chronicled Dakota Territory's rowdy early days. [read more ]

Outdoors

Remaining Ranchland

Cattle and elk are safe “in perpetuity” on a Spearfish ranch surrounded by development. [read more ]

Culture

Stopping the Green Glacier

Cedar trees are invading South Dakota ranchland, but landowners are fighting back. [read more ]

Business

Tasty Theatrics of the Wine Cellar

Diners seem to appreciate the little nighttime eatery with black tablecloths and a hostess who knows food and theater. [read more ]

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December 12

South Dakota architect Ward Whitwam was born today in 1923. Whitwam designed the Lewis & Clark Interpretative Center in Chamberlain, the Augustana College chapel and the Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Sioux Falls. But his most publicly-viewed works are the towering concrete tipis at South Dakota's Interstate rest stops. Whitwam's largest lodge poles are 56 feet long and weigh 6.5 tons. Whitwam wanted to show respect to the state's first residents and his proposal was accepted in 1965 as part of Lady Bird Johnson's highway beautification campaign.