Did you know that the American Legion Post in Milbank sponsored a beauty contest in 1927, hosted minstrel shows, staged boxing bouts and gave a car away in 1945 as a fundraiser for the construction of new clubrooms?
While working as a radio broadcaster, Patricia Johnson’s listeners would call in to discuss their problems. She soon learned she had a “natural gift for gab,” and helped callers work through what was on their minds.
“This is my third career,” explained Barbara McKewin, the new pastor at Parkview United Methodist Church in Milbank, Tabor United Methodist in Big Stone City and First United Methodist in Ortonville, MN.
For Barbara Hoffbeck Scoblic, Grant County native and author of Lost Without the River, now living in New York City, growing up as the youngest of seven was an uphill battle each day.
Nick Lowrey
South Dakota News Watch
Despite years of effort to reverse the trend, South Dakota remains among the worst states in the nation in terms of losing its most highly educated citizens to other areas of the country, according to a new report from Congress.
Christopher Hicks had his share of challenges during his 10 years teaching in Korea, but the experiences he enjoyed far outweighed any troubles he encountered. “I loved my time there,” said Hicks. “Korea was very kind to me.
Odds are many people would not think that ancient mooring stones discovered in northeast South Dakota and the money pit on Oak Island in Nova Scotia featured in the popular History channel series, The Curse of Oak Island, would be connected in any way. However, they would be wrong.
Country music performers Tennessee Ernie Ford, LeRoy Van Dyke, Jerry Reed and Hank Williams, Jr., all have one unexpected thing in common – the Suns of the West, a band that got its start in Milbank, served as their opening act in the late 1960s and 1970s.
The 2019 induction class of the South Dakota Country Music Hall of Fame includes the youngest-ever inductee in the history of the organization – Delaney Johnston of Deadwood, a former Summit resident. She is 16 and a junior at Lead-Deadwood High School.
