Brunch on the Farm
By Fran Hill It’s been a minute since I shared a recipe here with South Dakota Magazine. Allow me to reintroduce myself. I am Fran, and I like brunch. No, let’s revise that. I LOVE brunch. I am not an...
View ArticleBridges to History
By John Andrews ((img|historical-reenactor-2-22-21.jpeg|width=400)) John Timm as Governor Arthur Mellette. No South Dakotan alive today shook the hand of our first governor, Arthur Mellette, or stood...
View ArticleMarch/April 2021
((img|MarApr21.jpg|width=250)) Francesca Cain strolls down River Street in Hot Springs, a sandstone-lined shopping and entertainment district like nothing else in the West. Serenity in The...
View ArticlePeninsula Paradise
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...
View Article‘Sunrise, Sunset’
By Christian Begeman I’m not much on musicals. I find it hard to stay with a story when folks sort of just burst into song and dance. Nothing against music or dancing, it is just a personal preference....
View ArticlePudding Pi
By Fran Hill 2021 seems like the best year to celebrate the little things, to recognize happiness wherever we find it. Most of us have been through a lot and need joy. Nobody is better at finding the...
View ArticleDipping into Spring
By Laura Johnson Andrews The calendar says it’s spring in South Dakota, and I’m seeing signs that it might even be true. Baby goats are cavorting on my brother’s farm, there’s been a distinct increase...
View ArticleA Bouquet of Easter Flowers
Sioux Falls photographer and avid pasqueflower hunter Christian Begeman was shooting photos in the Cave Hills last spring when he noticed a mass of pasques gone to seed. This week, he paid a return...
View ArticleA Bouquet of Easter Flowers
Sioux Falls photographer and avid pasqueflower hunter Christian Begeman was shooting photos in the Cave Hills last spring when he noticed a mass of pasques gone to seed. This week, he paid a return...
View ArticleChasing Cats
By John Andrews ((img|chasing-cats-4-12-21-open.jpg|width=759)) Illustration by Mike Reagan. In the spring of 1949, Roy Groves was a 64-year-old grandfather who lived with his wife Alice in a little...
View ArticleHigh Plains Heaven
By Christian Begeman Every April, the Fort Pierre National Grasslands staff set up three blinds in the prairie hills southwest of the capital city. The reason? To provide the public an opportunity to...
View ArticleThe Badlands Ranch
By Bernie Hunhoff ((img|badlands-ranch-4-19-21-1.jpg|width=400)) As Badlands B&B pioneers, Phil and Amy Kruse occasionally speak at entrepreneurship conferences. They recently visited Lemmon, where...
View ArticleGoing Green
By Fran Hill It is Earth Day. Countless sources are providing us with information about recycling, reducing pollutants and other ways to minimize our effect on the Earth. Some of it is just common...
View ArticleThe Beauty That is Hermosa
By Paul Higbee ((img|hermosa-4-26-21-1.jpg|width=759)) Barrel racer Autumn Garcia exercises her horse, Bee, at the arena in Hermosa. Hermosa is Spanish for beauty, a fancy name for a working man’s...
View ArticleSaving the Graham House
By Sue Speck ((img|Mentor-Graham-House-Speck-5-3-21-1.jpg|width=400)) The Mentor Graham house in Blunt, once home to Abraham Lincoln's teacher, is in danger of demolition. Ramshackle and neglected, the...
View ArticleAccidental Rancher
((img|accidental-rancher-excerpt-5-10-21-1.jpg|width=759)) The view from the north pasture on Eliza Blue's ranch west of Bison. Photo by Christian Begeman. South Dakota was supposed to be just...
View ArticleThey Are A-Changin’
By Christian Begeman The transition from winter to spring this year has been interesting. There wasn’t much snow to melt, but that didn’t mean winter was ready to leave. Most of April was a tug-of-war...
View ArticleRaclette: A Toasty Alpine Delicacy
By Laura Johnson Andrews ((img|raclette-5-17-21-1.jpg|width=400)) Marc and Sonja Hoffmann of Sioux Falls serve a traditional Swiss delicacy called raclette as part of Sonja's online business, Raclette...
View ArticleMay/June 2021
((img|MayJune21.jpg|width=250)) Abandoned silica caves near Deerfield Lake are now a playground for children, including Ashlyn and Ariana Lindsay of Minneapolis. Hollowed Hill of Ditch Creek: An...
View ArticleMay/June 2021
((img|MayJune21.jpg|width=250)) Abandoned silica caves near Deerfield Lake are now a playground for children, including Ashlyn and Ariana Lindsay of Minneapolis. Hollowed Hill of Ditch Creek: An...
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