South Dakota Pictures (Sioux Falls, Canton, Tea: move to, stations, soccer)

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by DannyBanany

Neat pics Deadwood. I noticed from the chart that the only decade where South Dakota lost population was during the 1930s. I wonder if it has to do with the Dust Bowl.

The Dust Bowl was down here in Oklahoma.

[cancan]

Originally Posted by mkfarnam

The Dust Bowl was down here in Oklahoma.

The dust bowl was all over the midwest and into canada.

South Dakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Look 1/3 of the way down the page on the left.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Du...akota_1936.jpg

[debey]

Originally Posted by R_Cowgirl

Oh these pictures bring back so many memories. Thanks for sharing them, Debey! My Dad was one of the last circuit preachers for the Presby church on the west river side of the state. These little churches look so familiar. Some of the ones he preached in were used by several different faiths. Those smooth tiny wood benches in the one room churches were my first memories of Christmas and Easter. He'd go off to these places weekly without his brood, but on the holidays, we'd all pile into the station wagon and travel with him ... we'd do Christmas services 6 or 7 times in a couple of days. The churches were packed with little ol' ladies and they were so happy to see their pastor's kids. We'd sing carols (badly) and then they'd give us these little christmas stockings filled with candy and oranges. Last time I was in SD, I found one of those churches and just sat in it, filled with nostalgia and love for those very important early lessons in humanity.

Thank you, for sharing your menories!~It makes my pictures/posts even more special, to me!

[R_Cowgirl]

I remember the first time I went to visit the Mall of America in Mpls. I was on a speaking tour and had some time on my hands, so I went to the Aquarium. It starts at a babbling brook and takes you all the way to the Great Lakes. When I walked into the babbling brook area, i was suddenly overcome by sadness, as memories of my summers in the Black Hills washed over me. My father had died three months earlier, and when I was little, he took our family to the church camp in the Black Hills every summer. This little display at Mall of America perfectly captures the smells and sounds of that era. I recalled running through the Black Hills, the smell of loam, the sounds of the clear and cold brooks, the trout, the birds. It was heavenly. Those pics from you and from SnowBunny are exquisite. They capture so much of the magic of South Dakota for me. I'm so happy I stumbled onto this forum ... thank you all so much for your generosity and your spirit.

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by cancan

The dust bowl was all over the midwest and into canada.

South Dakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Look 1/3 of the way down the page on the left.

Fileust Bowl - Dallas, South Dakota 1936.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/maps/index.html

[cancan]

Thats great ya got a map from PBS....how do you explain the info on wiki and this picture ????? I understand its generally accepted the lower plains where hardest hit but the northern plains suffered as well....it was a drought of giant propotions that affected much more than PBS's map shows...


Fileust Bowl - Dallas, South Dakota 1936.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The Dust Bowl or the dirty thirties was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940). It was caused by severe drought, coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation or other techniques to prevent erosion, and the deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains, which killed the natural grasses"



http://www.usd.edu/anth/epa/dust.html

"The Dust Bowl of the 1930s lasted about a decade. Its primary area of impact was on the southern Plains. The northern Plains were not so badly effected, but nonetheless, the drought, windblown dust and agricultural decline were no strangers to the north. In fact the agricultural devastation helped to lengthen the Depression whose effects were felt worldwide. The movement of people on the Plains was also profound.

[Jammie]

If you'd like to discuss this further, please start a new thread. This is actually supposed to be a thread for pics and comments or questions about them. Thank you.

[ditschi]

One of my favourite pics at the Custer State Park. When u came from Germany, u don´t can believe that it´s true.

[ditschi]

don´t know why, but my pics are not online...

made a new try



and once more...lol with a link to my side

http://http://www.fc-schwarz-weiss.de/Buffalo.jpg

if this doesn´t goes, please visit my side ... u must go to "Interaktiv" and then on the left side to "Impressum" and scroll down please.

It´s a webside, i made, for our Soccer Team in Germany, if u like, please write something in my guestbook "Gästebuch"

http://www.fc-schwarz-weiss.de

[debey]

Originally Posted by ditschi

don´t know why, but my pics are not online...

made a new try



and once more...lol with a link to my side

http://http://www.fc-schwarz-weiss.de/Buffalo.jpg

if this doesn´t goes, please visit my side ... u must go to "Interaktiv" and then on the left side to "Impressum" and scroll down please.

It´s a webside, i made, for our Soccer Team in Germany, if u like, please write something in my guestbook "Gästebuch"

FC Schwarz-Weiss St.Michaelisdonn

Nice websight! And nice buffalo pics, too, BTW! thank you........