Hidden for 50 years I touched a rare piece of history a few years ago when I found the original Four Bears Monument. It hadn’t been seen for 50 years. In 2005 It appeared, and now that lake levels are so low, it is visible again, but you can’t walk out to it. It...
Read this newspaper page here: Thanksgiving Time in Williston, 1917. Historic Thanksgiving Sales Modern Thanksgiving Day seems to be as much about madly dashing to Black Friday Sales as it does Giving Thanks. A search through historic newspapers of the...
A cool wet September morning…and a traveling pair head west to the trading post they heard about. That’s because word reached them in their homes farther east that this was the weekend of a good gathering at the Fort Union Trading Post. Tempted to Travel back...
We kept track. Readers told us where they want to go, and so these six Badlands road trip destinations are added to our list of top Badlands attractions. ( I guess that makes them Destinations #11-16 according to our readers.) Badlands Road Trip Destination #1 Indian...
There’s something about visiting landmarks that inspires my imagination and nostalgia. Those moments prompt me to hearken back to a time no one can see. That’s how it was for me when I visited one landmark: Elbowoods Memorial Congregational Church....
Birnt Hills? Yeah, I heard of Birnt Hills, but I never really had the motivation to check out the area. My bad. Now I wish I’d visited before now. It’s the kind of tranquil place that a lot of people would like to find these days. We were reminded of the Birnt...