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Al Shock: Hospitality King 28 Dec 2009, 2:51 pm
By Bernie Hunhoff We’ve observed from our travels that the best small towns have a fellow (sometimes it’s a lady) who unofficially represents the town to outsiders. He or she is nearly always the first to welcome visitors or newcomers. He or she is nearly always the first to patronize a new coffee shop or drop [...] Read more >>
Looking for a New Year’s Eve Parade? 28 Dec 2009, 12:35 pm
Then you’ll want to be in Delmont on Thursday for the little town’s ninth annual end-of-year parade. We just got the news from Sam Grosz, a popular local newswoman and all-around busy lady. Sam says about 30 parade floats will line up at the Zion Lutheran Church and start rolling down Main Street at 2 p.m. [...] Read more >>
A Christmas Where-izzit Contest 23 Dec 2009, 4:14 pm
With snow and wind everywhere in the West, we figured this might be a good day for a Christmas Where-izzit Contest. Guess the town where this statue of Mary (or is it the Infant of Prague?) stands and you’ll win a special prize — a Christmas ornament of Yankton’s historic Pennington House, home of South [...] Read more >>
Lost in the Blizzard 23 Dec 2009, 8:41 am
By John Andrews Fancy radars and weather predicting equipment beyond my comprehension have been warning us of a coming blizzard for the last week. Our ancestors had no such capabilities in 1888, which is why people like John Jensen, who left his Aurora County farm house to clear snow from a well so his cattle could [...] Read more >>
The Kindest Readers In The Publishing Universe 22 Dec 2009, 9:31 am
By Bernie Hunhoff Yes, we have the nicest readers in the world. We’ve known it all along. But proof came again this week when Father Gary Ternes, chaplain of the state penitentiary, organized the packing of 2,900 holiday treat bags for prisoners. Thanks in part to a story by our food editor Ruth Steil in our Nov/Dec [...] Read more >>

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Karen Shinn Here is a summer picture from Swan Lake in Turner County to take away those winter woes

South Dakota Magazine What is your 2009 South Dakota highlight?

South Dakota Magazine We're finally finished scooping our 20 inches of snow from sidewalks and driveways and are ready with today's Trivia Tuesday question: What artist painted the earliest color scenes of the Waubay National Wildlife Refuge?

South Dakota Magazine got the January/February 2010 issue from the printer yesterday, just in time for Christmas! Look for yours in the next week, but feel free to talk about it over Christmas dinner with eager anticipation. Happy Holidays to our reading family!

Mick This is my grandfathers house in Mitchell in March 1962.

South Dakota Magazine A reader posted a photo from the Blizzard of 1950 at Gettysburg. Anyone else have any historic blizzard photos?

South Dakota Magazine We'll stick with our blizzard theme for the second, and hopefully tougher, installment of Trivia Tuesday. What Hand County family survived the Blizzard of 1966 by huddling together in a barn after their house burned down?

December 22, 2009 at 11:07am

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Richard Reding

My favorite snow storm story was one told by my father who was a family doctor in Marion, SD for over 60 years. To deliver a baby during a blizzard, I think it was the Armistice Day blizzard of 1940, he rode in a wrecker from a local garage taking almost two hours to go 6 miles to a farm house. The mother had a full breech birth and not wanting ... See Moreto do a C-section on the kitchen table, Dad called the depot in Marion and had them stop the train at a nearby crossing. Loading the mother in the wrecker they drove about a mile and met the train and then rode in the mail car to Sioux Falls where she delivered a healthy baby at the hospital.

December 23, 2009 at 7:11am

Linda Boock Wegner

Great story! Where is that baby today, I wonder?

December 23, 2009 at 7:31am

Kate I have photos from a blizzard in 1950 in Gettysburg. My grandfather was the railroad agent and according to his story it took six weeks to dig the train out. I don't have the whole story, but my mother and my uncle do.

Patrick J. O'Leary why does burrowing and politician seem so appropriate

South Dakota Magazine Reports of 12 to 18 inches of snow on the way got us thinking about another ferocious winter storm: the Blizzard of 1888, and it led to today's Trivia Tuesday question. What homesteader and territorial legislator survived that blizzard by burrowing into a haystack?

Shane Derek John Gerlach walking the railroad track to nowhere behind the Museum in Yankton South Dakota.

Shane Rose at dusk from my garden in Yankton South Dakota.

Shane Wild Hollyhock growing on my fence line in Yankton South Dakota.

Shane Hollyhock at dusk. Yankton South Dakota August 2009.

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