Dakota Life
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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Greetings from Wessington Springs
Most cities shape the landscape they’re on, but in Wessington Springs it’s the other way around.
Native American Voices
Dakota Life episodes featuring South Dakota's Native American Communities
Dakota Life Detours Off the Beaten Path
Experience a world-class museum in Timber lake and take a peek at who makes those Wall Drug signs.
Dakota Life November 1999
We visit barns, sod house and one room schoolhouses across South Dakota.
Dakota Life Detours The Highline of the Black Hills
Join SDPB as we take a ride on the most scenic railway of the Black Hills and learn its history.
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The Civilian Conservation Corps has a deep history in the Hill City area. A museum dedicated to the CCC is headquartered there, and the high school is the only one in the county that is allowed to use Smokey Bear as its mascot. -
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. -
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. -
Learn first-hand how humble pieces of iron helped forge one of South Dakota's most important industries.
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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.
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