Michael Zimny

We're celebrating 25 years of Dakota Life by revisiting conversations with people we've met on the show. This month it's Joshua Spies.

SDPB is celebrating 25 years of Dakota Life. This month we revisit a conversation with Michael Fitzmaurice, South Dakota's lone living Medal of Honor Recipient.

Moses Brings Plenty may be best known for his portrayal of “Mo” in the smash hit series Yellowstone -- which he compares to Dances with Wolves for the visibility it brings to Native America. He’s rode bucking horses, portrayed icons in historic documentaries and performed in the music group Brulé.

Hikers on the Skyline Wilderness Trail in Rapid City frequently walk past the remnants of the amphitheater, a strange relic of civilization slowly dissolving into wilderness. Once there were high hopes for the amphitheater as a stage for epic pageantry. Today, the opera itself has become the phantom.

Paintings by Ambrose Shields have returned to the elementary school in Little Eagle, long after a fire destroyed the old school and his murals within.

The first sign that something weedy would their way come, Mobridge historian Fay Jackman recalls, was when the water receded on the Moose Flats — a shallow area of Lake Oahe near Highway 12, named for the adjacent Moose Lodge, though actual moose have occasionally been spotted.

That special time of year is here again when ladybugs lay aside their solitary ways and converge for their annual ladybug 'Sturgis Rally', a once-in-a-lifetime festival of mating and perhaps collecting a few more calories before winter.