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Retrospect
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What's your most memorable high school sports moment?
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help us find the greatest moments in midwestern high school sports history
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During the coming weeks mainstreetmoments.com will be taking a closer look at some of the biggest high school sports moments in the Upper Midwest.
And we need your help!
We would to hear your picks and suggestions for our up and coming storie
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Villisca Remembering the Town and Country Grocery
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Dave Higgins remembrances of his teen age part time job in Villisca Iowa in the 1950's.
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By D.L. Higgins
I was 15 years old in 1957 and one of the town kids who was lucky enough to have a job to put a little money in my pocket. Many of us in town worked at local gas stations, mowed yards or kept our eyes open for any chance to earn a
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Thoen Stone Part 3
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In our third and last part of our series on the Thoen Stone, we give carving on rock a go!
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Also see part one and part two
An intriguing question posed in par
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Thoen Stone Investigated Part 2
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Would a frantic survivor attempting to hide from his pursuers, pause, and then take the time to write a message on a piece of stone?
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Also see part one and part three
Would a frantic survivor of a dea
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Conde South Dakota Nicknames
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What is it about Conde, South Dakota and that peculiar tradition of nicknames? At one time it seemed like half of the town’s male population was addressed by nicknames? Conde must of had the highest per- capita rate of nickname use in the State.
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Lets find Rev. Lyn George Jacklin Kelly,
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1912 Murders still unsolved
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Winner, South Dakota has an intriguing, if innocent, connection to a famous mass murder case in Iowa. In 1912, six members of a household and two visiting children were murdered in the middle of the night in the small town of Villisca, Iowa.
The c
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The saga of Oscar Micheaux
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Filmmaker of South Dakota
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The saga of Oscar Micheaux in South Dakota is a fantastic portrayal of one man’s imagination, perseverance, and entrepreneurial energy— one of the best examples that one can find among all the pioneering tales of the Dakotas. What was a black America
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The Reds Are Coming!
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Remembering a visit from the U.S.S.R in the 1950's
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I think it was in the late fifties. My dad mention that some “Russians” were coming to the area to observe American farming methods and that it might be interesting to get a look at them. Through some contacts at the County offices, he was able to
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Clyde Willis Rainford 1905-1948
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This is the 3rd in a series of writings authored by Darrel Rainford of Minnesota (1928 - 2005).
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Biography: Clyde Willis Rainford 1905-1948
Clyde Willis Rainford was born in Illinois on July 2, 1905. The records don’t say, but chances are that he was born with the long, lean body and thick dark hair that
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How Things Worked - by Darrel Rainford
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This is the 2nd in a series of writings authored by Darrel Rainford of Minnesota (1928 - 2005).
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Shocking Wheat
The customary method to harvest grain (up until approx 1950 when newer smaller combines became available ) was to bind grain wheat, oats, barley into a bundle with a binder. This machine would cut the stalk and head a
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Frances Klapperich Labrie, A Great Cook
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This is the 1st in a series of writings authored by Darrel Rainford of Minnesota (1928 - 2005).
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Frances Klapperich Labrie, 1877-1960, learned to cook as a young woman when she had a cookcar to feed the threshing teams. She could feed dozens of hungy men without running water in a small kitchen on wheels set in the middle of the field. She made
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Dancin' Man
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Bachelor farmer danced his way through life.
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“The only thing I like more than dancing is more dancing!” This was the refrain that Clyde Raines repeated to hundreds of female dancing partners in eastern South Dakota during the 40s, 50s, and early 60s.
Clyde was unmarried and farmed near the t
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Claremont South Dakota
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Why do some communities consistently excel in Sports
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CLAREMONT, SD Why do certain small towns and communities seem to have a history of success in sports? Pick any area throughout this Midwestern area and one will find examples of athletic achievments that spanned years or even decades in specific comm
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Vern Miller—Sheriff, Moonshiner, Hit-man
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How did the career of a small-town sheriff from South Dakota promote the creation of the modern FBI? Well, for one thing, he became a gangster.
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The earliest years in Vern Miller’s biography remains unclear. It is reported that he was born in Kimball, South Dakota in 1896. Not much is known about his early years, but he was a resident of Huron, South Dakota by 1914. His life appears ordinar
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The Gunslinger of Basketball
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HOW A QUICK-THINKING SOUTH DAKOTAN CHANGED BASKETBALL FOREVER
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Deadwood, South Dakota has long been an iconic symbol of the Old West. It ranks with Tombstone, Dodge, and Tucson as encapsulating the hardy, unrestrained, unlawful character of life in the boom towns on the frontier. Indeed, Deadwood as a center o
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Snowbound Basketball Tourney 1952
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A COLD YET MEMORABLE HIGHSCHOOL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
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Sometimes lousy weather can create a lot of fun. Residents of Conde, South Dakota still remember the District Tournament of 1952.
South Dakota, like so many Midwestern states, had a state-wide playoff system for boys’ high school basketball. The d
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Rose Bowl Running Back
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QUIET BUSINESSMAN PLAYED IN 1916 BOWL GAME
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I was about twelve and devoted to every kind of sport; I played basketball and baseball at every opportunity; I listened to college football; I was a Cleveland Indians fan; I knew the entire roster of the Minneapolis Lakers. So, when one day I overhe
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