One Sole At A Time
By Michael Zimny ((img|shoe-repair-12-6-17-1.jpg|width=400)) Chad Scoular repairs boots and other leather goods inside a small shop in downtown Rapid City. Chad Scoular is making a go of it in an...
View ArticleTis the Season: Peppermint Fudge
By Fran Hill ((img|Peppermint-Fudge.jpg|width=749)) 'Tis the season for sweets, treats and treasures. Kitchens are busy with baking, and break rooms in workplaces across the state are groaning with...
View ArticleTimber Lake’s Holiday Tradition
Every Christmas, cooks near 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...
View ArticleThe Truck Stop-Titanic Connection
By Paul Higbee It’s recorded that as the Titanic began slipping beneath the Atlantic waves, a passenger confronted a crewman. "I was assured," said the passenger, "that this could not possibly happen."...
View ArticleClocks, Cars & Tractors
By Bernie Hunhoff ((img|bridgewater-11-29-17-2.jpg|width=400)) The origin of Jack Vondra's jewelry store on Bridgewater's main street can be traced to a shop started in 1884 by A.G. Gullander, an...
View ArticleA South Dakota Christmas Story
By Katie Hunhoff In the 1930s, down-on-their-luck families sometimes lodged in county poor farms. Herschel and Hilda McKnight ran the Charles Mix County Home for the Poor in those years. It was housed...
View ArticleA Capitol Christmas
Christmas at the Capitol has been a holiday tradition in Pierre since 1981 when volunteers decorated 12 trees. This year, nearly 90 brilliantly-lighted and specially-themed trees fill the rotunda and...
View ArticleTo Bake or Not To Bake
By Fran Hill I was a newlywed when Martha Stewart and her lifestyle of seeming perfection was becoming a mainstream phenomenon. Every holiday season, her magazine featured a fabulous array of cookies...
View ArticleThe Dark Tower
By Jeremy Wild ((img|dark-tower-12-26-17.jpg|width=400)) The remains of Delmont's Cold War-era watch tower stood on Main Street long after the threat had passed. When school ended in Delmont that May,...
View ArticleWinter Wonderland
By Christian Begeman A couple weeks ago I wasn’t sure this column was going to happen. Since October I had planned on taking the full week off before Christmas to spend some time in the Black Hills,...
View ArticleThe Creek That Thinks It’s a River
By Jeanne Richardson ((img|split-rock-creek-01-02-18-2.jpg|width=759)) Split Rock Creek flows 55 miles through lush woodlands accentuated with quartzite outcroppings. They call it Split Rock Creek,...
View ArticleWhen Carrots Become Candy
By Fran Hill It is early January, and we have all been bombarded with advertising, social media posts and probably a few conversations about dieting, resetting, detoxing and all sorts of keyword-heavy...
View ArticleJanuary/February 2018
((img|JanFeb18.jpg|width=250)) Bonny Fleming of Rapid City photographed the Badlands on a snowy day. The Land Bridge: Browns Valley separates two great waterways and blends the cultures of South...
View ArticleQuest for the Czech Kolache
By Laura Johnson Andrews ((img|kolache-curve-01-04-18-3.jpg|width=400)) Ed and Carol Radack make fresh kolaches daily, but there are Bon Homme County natives scattered far and wide. That's no problem,...
View ArticleWhy “Johnson Siding?”
By Michael Zimny ((img|johnson-siding-01-04-18-1.jpg|width=759)) Johnson Siding lies just west of Rapid City along Highway 44. Have you ever driven west from Rapid City on Highway 44 and thought, “Gee,...
View ArticleMen in Black Stripes
By Roger Holtzmann ((img|basketball-referee-01-09-18.jpg|width=400)) "When you make a call and the whole place goes nuts booing you, that's when you know you got it right," one longtime referee said....
View ArticleBlizzard in a Small Town
Photography and story by Bernie Hunhoff A winter storm overwhelms a small town, almost as if the North Wind is flapping a mile-wide blanket of gray goose feathers overhead, rudely muffling all the...
View ArticleJan/Feb 2018 Favorites
Our staff chose favorite photos from the January/February 2018 issue. What are yours?
View ArticleBlack Hills Timber
By Paul Higbee ((img|black-hills-timber-01-04-18-4.jpg|width=759)) Alan Aker is a third generation lumberman who manages the forest, cuts the trees and markets niche wood products online. At...
View ArticleResolutions of Adventure for 2018
By Katie Hunhoff Have you already broken your New Year’s resolution? If so, don’t feel badly. Forty percent of Americans make them every January, but only an estimated 8 percent stick to them,...
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