Ahead of Her Time
I walked ditches and roadsides on the outskirts of Aberdeen during the first annual Earth Day, held April 22, 1970,... Read more »
I walked ditches and roadsides on the outskirts of Aberdeen during the first annual Earth Day, held April 22, 1970,... Read more »
If you’ve ever spotted a group of women dressed as suffragettes at NSU or manning a voter registration booth at... Read more »
My first model train—a hand-me-down toy from my brothers—was a Lionel locomotive with a big wind-up key that ran on... Read more »
One of the most famous residents of Spink County lived there about 16 years before the county was created, but... Read more »
I first met with Herschel and Bea Premack for this story a week after the Jewish holiday of Passover. Typically,... Read more »
Virtually unheard of today, polio once struck fear into American parents. Even though the disease affected relatively few people—its worst... Read more »
Imagine a hot, 1890 Fourth of July political rally. All the gentlemen in their coats, ties, and hats; women in... Read more »
One of the best ways to fight an ongoing pandemic is by arming ourselves with knowledge of the past. Northern... Read more »
If you had strolled past Aberdeen City Hall in 1919, you would have seen our first American Legion members setting... Read more »
It’s unlikely that either major presidential candidate will visit Aberdeen on his campaign this fall, but it would not be... Read more »