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
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We take you to visit three builders in South Dakota: a woodworker who makes cutting boards in Rapid City, a canoe creator near Vermillion, and a guitar craftsman in Sioux Falls.
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Ed Westberg of Beresford, South Dakota loves music. He loves playing music, discussing music, and collecting music. SDPB profiled Westberg on a 2002 episode of Dakota Life.
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In this Dakota Life story from 2006, SDPB caught up with the crew that was cleaning and preserving Mount Rushmore for future generations.
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Dakota Life features the freedom to own land, to build a home purchased from a catalog, and to have the wind in your hair are expressions of living the American Dream. Take a detour off the main road to explore freedom.
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Learn first-hand how humble pieces of iron helped forge one of South Dakota's most important industries.
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The Timber Lake & Area Museum features permanent displays ranging from fossils to traditional Lakota clothing and a T-Rex.
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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.
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Dakota Life heads to the community of Timber Lake, South Dakota.
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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.
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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.