Mementos of a Missouri River Atlantis
By Michael Zimny ((img|squirrel1.jpg|width=400)) A marble squirrel sculpture, a relic of a Depression-era works project, stands near Chamberlain's city pool. If you’ve spent any time in downtown...
View ArticleTwitter to the Rescue
By Fran Hill Twitter often gets a bad rap. Trolls bully. Celebrities have meltdowns and tantrums. Misinformation abounds. But occasionally, good things happen in the Twittersphere. People in need find...
View ArticleA Rapid City Treasure
Story by John Christopher Fine ((img|Presidential-Pawn-03-07-17-3.jpg|width=400)) Entrepreneurial storekeepers Chris and Trevor Johnson operate Rapid City's eclectic Clock Shop. Photos by Mike Wolforth...
View ArticleStaff Favorites from March/April 2017
Here are some of our favorite photos from the latest issue of the magazine. What are yours?
View ArticleMarch/April 2017
((img|MarApr17.jpg|width=250)) JoJo lives on the Jim River Ranch, near one of Spink County's many old bridges built back in the horse and buggy days. Photo by Bernie Hunhoff. Bridging the James:...
View ArticleHigh Mountain Gardening
Story and photos by Debra Opland McLane ((img|BH-Garden-03-13-17-6.jpg|width=400)) Crocus in late snow. To escape stress-filled days of work in Rapid City, my husband and I endure a daily 50-mile...
View ArticleInspired by McCook County
By John Andrews ((img|McCook-County.jpg|width=400)) We drive Highway 81 when we travel from Yankton to my hometown of Lake Norden. Whenever we approach Salem, my 10-year-old daughter scans the skyline...
View ArticleRural Steeples
In 2014, Sioux Falls photographer Christian Begeman started Prairie Sanctuaries, a Facebook page dedicated to country churches. He's since photographed and featured over 200 churches, with 55 of our 66...
View ArticleThe Man Who Played Christ
By Paul Higbee ((img|Passion-Play-03-20-17-4.jpg|width=400)) Josef Meier brought his Passion Play to Spearfish in 1938. So overpowering are the accomplishments of the man who played Jesus Christ that...
View ArticleHappy Gold Hunter
By Katie Hunhoff We met the miners early on a Sunday morning on Rockerville’s only street. I was hoping they would look like miners because I knew my 8-year-old son Steven had some colorful...
View ArticleSanctuary on the Prairie
In the fall of 1886, the Rev. Bernard Heus travelled from Ipswich to lead the town of Bowdle’s first Catholic Mass in a hall over Cox’s store on Main Street. Today, Catholics in the Edmunds County city...
View ArticleDisappearing Gravel and Other Weighty Matters
By Roger Holtzmann Henry David Thoreau wrote of wood that it warms you twice: when you chop it, then again when you burn it. As is true of many pearls of wisdom, this insight can be applied to other...
View ArticleThe Art of Mushroom Hunting
By Bernie Hunhoff ((img|morel-03-27-17-2.jpg|width=400)) Morel mushrooms will soon begin to grow in South Dakota's river valleys. Thousands of South Dakotans are now waiting for a warming of the soil...
View ArticleSouth Dakota: Superpower
By Paul Higbee ((img|minuteman-missile-03-28-17-1.jpg|width=400)) The Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is a reminder of the weapons that dotted the West River landscape during the Cold War. I’m...
View ArticleCulinary Spring Has Sprung
By Fran Hill A couple of weeks ago, I jotted down notes for a rant about early spring. 70-degree days in February and March don’t do it for me. With three dogs and a farmer husband, prematurely warm...
View ArticleMasons: Losing the Mystery
By David Jensen ((img|Masons-03-30-17-1.jpg|width=400)) Yankton's imposing Masonic Temple anchors the corner of Fourth and Cedar downtown. The Masonic Temple is downtown Yankton’s tallest and most...
View ArticleCrossing the James
The James River meanders and oxbows for 474 miles across eastern South Dakota, with 87 bridges that cross it. Our March/April issue includes a feature on our state’s efforts to maintain those...
View ArticleA Lost Monument
By Michael Zimny ((img|geographical-center-04-04-17-5.jpg|width=500)) A concrete slab on Snake Butte near Pierre once supported a monument declaring that spot the geographical center of North America....
View ArticleFrom Nature to Your Home
By Emily VanDerhule Jeremy Schmidt was on his tractor when a tire blew. The culprit? A deer shed. He hung on to the antler, hoping to make a bottle opener out of it. The shed proved too small, so he...
View ArticleOh, The Possibilities!
Architects, artists, city planners and designers from across South Dakota converged in Yankton April 6-8 for Design:SD, an annual exercise to help the chosen community imagine its possibilities. Photos...
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