Dakota Life Season 27 (2024-2025)

To highlight the upcoming episode of Dakota Life, we share about the town of Wessington Springs and its origins.

Dr. Beth Jensen is a family physician who is the founder of Glean For Good, which allows visitors a way to appreciate farm-life through a number of activities including farm-to-table dinners, glorified petting zoo opportunities, soap making, felting, and as SDPB experienced - goat yoga.

Susan Haygood is a painter and sculptor with a life-long relationship with horses.

SDPB meets Bruce Reckstad, who conducts tours up and down Split Rock Creek on a pontoon boat.

In 2021, the Garretson Historical Society hired a former military ordinance specialist turned locksmith to repair a lock in the Garretson Museum, which is partially housed in a former bank. When he looked at the vault doors, he discovered a live mechanism containing industrial-strength tear gas.

SDPB meets Merle Wenge, who was voted the 2021 South Dakota Campground Host of the Year. All summer long, he introduces visitors to Palisades—from the history to the walking trails, the famous rock formations, and Split Rock Creek.

A man named Mr. Garretson had an idea to connect a short-line railroad from Willmar, MN to Garretson, SD to Sioux City, IA. Hop on board for the story of Mr. Garreton's Train Town.

While on vacation home in 1976, Rich Holzapfel's grandfather had a heart attack and was rushed to Sioux Falls - that's where he met the ward nurse who would become his wife of 45 years.

Meet father-daughter wildlife artists Adam and Madison Grimm.

To highlight the upcoming episode of Dakota Life, we share about the town of Garretson and its origins.