Dakota Life | SDPB
Stories about interesting South Dakota people, places, and things. New episodes on TV and online the second Thursday of each month, September - June
Before fences split up the wide-open prairie, livestock was identified by their brand.
Timber Lake celebrates its heritage in July with the Days of 1910 activities.
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The Doolittle Raid was an air raid on April 18th, 1942 by the United States on Japan during World War II. Two South Dakotans, Henry Potter, and Donald Smith, took part. -
Dakota Life heads to the community of Timber Lake, South Dakota. -
A total of 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929. In this Dakota Life story from 2001, we look at some of the libraries built in South Dakota. -
After the mines in the Cornwall region of England closed, miners immigrated to Lead, South Dakota where they brought with them a meat pie called pasty. -
Step into the studio of Wolsey, South Dakota bootmaker Mark Schumacher. -
A preview of stories we are working on for Dakota Life from Timber Lake, South Dakota. -
From the Dakota Life archives, SDPB featured Michael Hill and his popular ceramics class at the University of South Dakota in 2008. -
Tour the homes of former South Dakota governors John Pennington, Arthur C. Mellette, and Robert S. Vessey. -
The West River Nurse Honor Guard is a nonprofit group of volunteer nurses who attend funerals or memorial services for any fallen nurse in western South Dakota. -
Take a look at some of the Lustron homes built in South Dakota.
