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MINNEHAHA COUNTY FAMILY

TODAY’S AGRICULTURE:

NEVER BEEN EASIER, NEVER BEEN HARDER

By Bob Fitch

When he was growing up, Minnehaha County farm boy Kevin Scott thought his friend, Jannell Gage, was related to him. So he never had any romantic interest in her until he found out their parents were just friends, not relatives. Well, that was a different story.

For many years, their parents, Richard and Lorna Scott and Dean and Jeanine Gage, were in a young men’s and women’s group that was essentially an extension of 4-H. “It was young farm families who just wanted to continue in a social fashion after they got out of high school and 4-H. So Jannell and I grew up together,” Kevin said. They both went to elementary school in Valley Springs and graduated from Brandon Valley High School.

The two started dating when they were juniors at BVHS and got married a few years later after Kevin completed his associate’s degree at South Dakota State University. Jannell went to Bethel College in Minneapolis for a year and then went to floral design school in Kansas. Over the years, she has done wedding flower arrangements for many people they know.

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Kevin and Jannell Scott with their grandchildren, Quinn, Lincoln and Cora.

After college, Kevin said, “I had three brothers who were working with my dad on his farm and so there were plenty of people at the home place – they didn’t need one more guy there. So I came back and started farming with Jannell’s dad.

He taught me a lot about farming.”

However, two years later, the USDA PIK program started paying farmers to not grow corn. Consequently, his father-in-law didn’t need the help anymore. “So we started farming on our own. When we started, I was renting four quarters, farming with 4-row equipment. I was working too much. But what did I know? We didn’t have any money, but we didn’t know any better, so that was ok.”

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of years. After my dad got brain cancer and died, my brother and I continued for 25 years until three years ago when we divided. Now he’s got a son who farms with him and I’ve got a son who farms with me.”

Along the way, Kevin and Jannell had six kids. Son David works at Baldwin Belts in Sioux Falls and is married to MacKenzie; Jordan and his wife Samantha farm with them and have one son, Lincoln; Anna works at Starbucks in Sioux Falls and got married in October to Jarek; Laura is a nurse at Sanford Health and has two children, Quinn and Cora, with her husband Bret; Maren works at Hy Vee Floral and is getting married to John in April; and their youngest daughter Whitney recently finished high school and is working at Stensland Ice Cream.

Jannell had her hands full homeschooling all six of their kids.

Since Whitney finished school, Jannell has retired from that job, but isn’t resting much since she babysits all three grandchildren on a part-time basis, plus has been busy with flower arrangements and other wedding planning with two daughters married in the span of less than a year.

Some of the acres the couple works is land once farmed by Jannell’s parents and grandparents. Kevin is part of the fourth generation of his family in extreme eastern The Scott family on Oct. 23, 2020: John Reiners who is the fiancé to daughter Maren Scott; son Jordan Scott Minnehaha County. His great and wife Samantha with their son Lincoln; son David Scott and his wife MacKenzie; daughter Anna with grandfather, John A. Scott, started her new husband Jarek Bannister; Kevin and Jannell Scott; daughter Whitney Scott; daughter Laura holding farming in the area in 1886 and he Quinn with husband Bret Pearson holding Cora. was one of the founders of Ben hundredweight. It nearly broke us right away.

Clare United Methodist Church, a country church which We were having daily conversations with our Kevin and Jannell still attend. banker. It wasn’t fun. But we changed our business plan and went to just a wean pig His great grandfather was also the lineman for the Ben Clare contract. We sold those pigs to somebody else Telephone Company. “He was 80+ years old and was still climbing the poles to hang the telephone and telegraph lines.

He was also an innovator. They had a windmill to charge batteries so they could have lights in the house, but it also started the house on fire. My uncle remembers that – my grandpa climbing up there trying to put the fire out in the attic. The cost of innovation was pretty steep back then,” Kevin said.

Of course, today’s innovation costs are pretty steep too.

The technology on today’s equipment doesn’t come cheap.

But Kevin and son Jordan believe it is worth the investment.

“Growing up around farming and seeing Dad do all this with these big toys, it gets in your blood,” Jordan said. “Technology is moving so fast and it’s cool to see what’s coming new every year. It’s not work when you get to play with these big toys every day. And hopefully we can make it sustainable for my kids and their kids.”

One of their adaptations has been to plant corn in 20-inch rows. Kevin said, “That’s something Dad would have said, ‘What the heck are you doing?’ The theory is we’re really just harvesting the sun. We’ve been doing it a long time and it’s proving effective.” They are also doing some no-till planting.

“It’s more effective up here on the hills than it is on our southern ground that is more level.”

In addition, the Scotts have a long-time interest in valueadded agriculture. Twenty years ago, they became partowners of a sow unit. “It was farrow-to-finish at the time.

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and from that point on we did well and we expanded the unit twice.

Those of us who were original owners have since sold the sows and now we just rent out that space.”

The Scotts have also invested in ethanol and bio-diesel plants.

Going hand-in-hand with that part of value-added agriculture, Kevin is a long-time advocate for farmers in South Dakota and the entire country. He served 10 years

on the board of directors of the South Dakota Soybean Association, including a term as president. He’s currently the vice president of the American Soybean Association.

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what the association does. I wanted soybeans to continue as a viable part of our farming operation. Having first-held knowledge of why it was or wasn’t was kind of important. So I got involved. Once you’re involved, they really don’t let you go,” he said.

In addition to his SDSA and ASA work, he also served six years on the U.S. Soybean Export Council. “With that, there’s been a lot of international travel. That really opened my eyes to what it takes to grow and sell soybeans to other people. Over half the beans we grow are exported. So we’re not just necessarily dealing with customs and so forth we know. We have to learn what other people want of our product. It’s provided great opportunities to visit with people who don’t farm like we do; whose life is different than ours; who raise their livestock differently than we do,” he said.

He’s confident the soybean market is headed for a rebound after the last couple of years when U.S. soybeans took a hit in the Chinese market because of the trade wars and the African swine fever which decreased Chinese hog herd numbers. “We’ve re-directed our focus to try to diversify our markets a little bit so we don’t have all our eggs in one basket. Plus, now the Chinese are re-building their hog herd; we want to take advantage of that.

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“We’ve got a perfect storm of pent-up demand in China.

They weren’t buying our product a year ago and were using up their reserves; and now their crop this year has not been that great because of terrible flooding. So the demand is showing up here this fall. We’ve had challenges in the U.S. with production, some dryness, early freeze in North Dakota, wind events, some late planted beans in the east, and too much moisture in some spots. So prices are rebounding.”

Jordan is following in his dad’s footsteps. He was selected for the Corteva (Pioneer) Young Leader program and had a chance to lobby in Washington and receive leadership training in Des Moines. That led to a trial run on the South Dakota Soybean Association board and then an official term when a spot came open. “That’s a good feeling for the old man that he sees the value of commodity organizations and what we do,” Kevin said.

Jordan has taken his farm advocacy online, posting regular reports on YouTube from the farm field, explaining to nonfarmers the real story of life on the farm. “I think a lot of people don’t understand what farmers do and how involved farming is. Getting our story out there and how much work it actually is and how much technology we use every day is something people enjoy and can grab on to. And, hopefully, they’ll learn where their food comes from … which is not the grocery store, it’s right here” Jordan said. Go to YouTube. com and search “Scott Family Farms, Valley Springs SD” to find his videos.

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“I want to show people why we’re doing what we’re doing and that we’re being good stewards of the land; and that we’re not just out here dumping chemicals on the land. We like to be transparent.

That’s the main reason I started it; to build trust with consumers.

It takes awhile to build up an

audience, but it’s going great,” he said.

Kevin said, “It’s an exciting time to be involved in agriculture. It’s never been easier, but it’s also never been harder. It’s mentally hard. Basically what it gets down to is: I’d like our grandchildren to be able to grow soybeans down the road. I think the

only way to ensure that is to be involved.”

Jordan said, “The lifestyle is also pretty good. It’s a little bit different pace than the normal day-to-day in town and I enjoy the flexibility, even though we’re working hard this time of the year.”

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TURNER COUNTY FAMILY

BUILDING A BETTER BOARDING AND BREEDING BUSINESS

By Bob Fitch

What happens when you cross a health industry administrator and a commercial builder with Grandpa’s old farm? The surprising progeny is a Turner County horse boarding and breeding business.

Bernie and Julie Wetering of Triple W Performance Horses near Chancellor and Parker.

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South Dakota natives Bernie and Julie Wetering had been living in Arizona for 16 years when the old home place of her grandparents, Harold and Lillian Jacobs, became available in 2001. “When we moved to Arizona, it wasn’t my intention to live our whole lives down there,” Julie said. “All of sudden, wow, it had been 16 years. This place came for sale through my uncle, and I decided if we were ever going to move, now was the time. And Bernie came kicking and screaming.” He said, “I got told. I didn’t want to come back to the cold once I got away. Now I’m just counting down the years until I get to go back.”

Julie is the director of Orthopedics & Sports Medicine at Sanford Health in Sioux Falls, overseeing 150 people in that department. “It fits my natural desire to be bossy. I love it.”

She grew up about 10 miles west on the farm of her parents, Dennis and Kay Chester.

Bernie owns TJ Paige Construction. “We used to travel a lot.

We did national-scale work. We used to build JC Penny stores and we built all the Scheels stores in the United States. At one point, we had licenses and were working in 27 states.

Now I just do more local work, like we built the Ace Hardware in Parker.”

“Neither one of us were raised around horses,” Julie said.

“When we moved here in 2001, we decided we were going to have horses. At first we just had trail riding horses and then we decided we wanted to breed some horses.”

Triple W Performance Horses was the home of Frenchmens Perks, winner of the 2015 BFA Juvenile World Championship, ridden here by Chris Martin.

Triple W Performance Horses is located north of Chancellor and Parker. They board about 20-25 horses predominantly for women from the Sioux Falls area. Julie said, “We have indoor riding, we have outdoor riding, and we have off-road trails in our back pasture.” Bernie said, “They don’t have to ride on the road or highway or down in the ditch. I’ve torn out the fences and there’s no gates to go through. They can just go. It’s pretty hilly in the back. The riders like the more challenging, rolling hills.”

Julie said they’ve done a lot of work to make the site welcoming for their boarding clients. “People like that we’re small. And, because Bernie is a builder, he custom-built all of the stalls in our barn. Everything around here looks good because it’s well taken care of. Plumbing, electricity, tile, welding – you name it, he does it.” Bernie said, “Pretty much everything on this place, I built. I couldn’t afford to have anybody else do it.”

Julie said, “It’s quite a bit of work to take care of all that stuff when we both have other jobs. It’s a lot of work and it’s a lot of hands-on work. It’s not automated like the big cattle operations. You’re cleaning stalls by hand; you’re handling small bales; you’re feeding grain out of a bucket with a scoop.” Bernie added, “The manure pile out there is built up one wheelbarrow at a time. I don’t do as much construction work as I used to. I need time to do my work around here.”

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Their customers appreciate the full wash bays they’ve added, as well as the high quality feed from their own alfalfa fields and orchard grass hay.

Almost 10 years ago, they added horse breeding to the business.

“We basically decided on quarter horses. But, even more specialized than that, we decided on raising barrel racing quarter horses. We went to Texas and bought three brood mares. They were already bred and we just went from there.

That was in 2011. For years, our three kids were heavily into sports and activities and, when they were grown, this became kind of our empty nester deal,” she said.

The Wetering family: Alex, Owen and daughter Paige Anderson; son Jordan; Julie and Bernie; Violet, Jacy and son Tyler Wetering. Photo by Ashley Wegh of Flyaway Photography.

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They’re taking two horses to BFA in November. The one is a juvenile, trained and jockeyed by Chelsie Cunningham of Mitchell.

The other is a derby horse ridden by 12-year-old Rylee Jennings, also from Mitchell.

Bernie said, “Your ultimate goal is to have someone take one of your horses to the NFR (National Finals Rodeo).” But, Julie said, “Our everyday goal is to raise and sell good quality horses. We have really good mares and we breed to some of the top studs in the country.”

Bernie said, “Our horses are speed and cow-bred. The stallions are all speed horses. The mare side are cow-bred.” In the western riding world, “cow bred” is defined as a horse which has proven cutting, cow working, or even roping horses in its genealogy. Julie said, “The

theory is you get some brains from that cow-bred horse and you get the speed from the race horse.” Bernie added: “Fast is just part of what you’re breeding for. You can’t breed the brains out of it. We’re looking for the perfect combination.”

Bernie has self-taught himself to halter break the horses. The horses have to be broke to lead, learn to get on trailer, learn to have a bath, and learn to lift their feet up when the farrier comes. Bernie said, “Every single thing with a horse is a learned behavior. I still don’t know if I’m doing it right. Some horse trainers might not like what I do. But I spend a lot of time with them, not forcing anything.” Julie said, “We’ve always had people compliment us. Last year, we sold two yearlings, and both those customers just raved how nice the

colts are and how easy they are to handle. So whatever he’s doing, he must be doing something right.”

Next summer, the focus of their time may shift a little because they figure their 3-year-old grandson Owen might be ready for a pony.

“Owen just loves the horses. In fact, he’s probably a little too brave,” Bernie said. Owen’s mom, Paige, is a counselor at Holy Spirit and St. Lambert schools in Sioux Falls.

Bernie and Julie’s oldest, Tyler, is an attorney in Rapid City and has two daughters, Violet (2) and Hazel (10 months). The couple’s youngest is Jordan who is active duty navy on the USS Theodore Roosevelt. He’s eager to return to South Dakota next spring when his military commitment is completed.

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KEEPING LOCAL HISTORY ALIVE

THE MURDERED MAN WHO KILLED A TOWN

By Bob Fitch

The town of Ben Clare was established in 1888 in extreme southeastern Minnehaha County along the Illinois Central Railroad, east of Valley Springs. Founder Benjamin Richard named the town after his two sons, Benjamin and Clarence. The fast-growing town soon boasted a post office, two grain elevators, two grocery stores, lumber yard, hardware store, blacksmith, creamery-produce station, and stockyards. The railroad was central to shipping livestock and grain to Chicago, a good feature for growth. The town had a marching band; and the literary society added to the culture by sponsoring plays, musical events, and debates.

Today, all that’s left of the former town is the United Methodist Church which started there in 1890.

For many years, the church was known for hosting tent meetings and revivals.

In 1892, Benjamin Richards sold the townsite to Frank Bowen. That was the beginning of the end for the boomtown of Ben Clare because Bowen had a real knack for ticking off people.

Frank Bowen’s name first shows up in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader on Jan. 29, 1895, when the newspaper describes a “peculiar state of affairs” because “It seems Mr. Bowen refuses to sell land to would-be locaters for any reasonable amount of money …

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The Argus Leader afternoon edition on Feb. 27, 1903.

the people in that town and vicinity have become out of patience with Mr. Bowen.”

A few days later, on Feb. 2, 1895, under the headline “Fun at Ben Clare,” the Argus Leader reported “Hot words have been bandied and two arrests have been made.

Constable Gus Holtman had Mr. Bowen arrested for using abusive language to him. Mr. Bowen … pleaded guilty and paid a fine of $17.50. Mr. Bowen then had Mr. Holtman arrested on the same charge. Mr. Holtman demanded a jury trial, got it, and was acquitted.

The costs, amounting to $37, were taxed up against Mr. Bowen, who feels fate is against him.”

Three weeks later, the Argus Leader said the town’s citizens

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had decided to move the town and rename it “North Ben Clare.” John O. Johnson was offering leases in North Ben Clare free of charge for five years and then $3 per acre for an additional 15 years. On March 7, 1895, the newspaper said “The town of Ben Clare is rapidly melting away and being reestablished in its new location at North Ben Clare … While the work was progressing, three flags were displayed; the Norwegian flag floated over the public square in the new town; the stars and stripes adorned the cupola of the blacksmith shop; while at the old town the Irish emblem was displayed at half mast.”

The same week the town was being moved, Bowen apparently hired “pugilist” Elward Harvey to beat

The town’s historical marker and Ben Clare United Methodist Church

up a Scandinavian citizen, but then failed to make payment: “Bowen refused to cough up and Harvey prepared to ‘get even.’ Bowen lit out and evaded the clutches of the enraged Harvey. Further trouble is likely to result over the townsite fight.”

The trouble in Ben Clare seemed to settle down for a few years, until, on April 2, 1898, the Argus Leader reported “E.W. Crandall, station agent at Ben Clare, yesterday afternoon went to Valley Springs and secured a warrant for the arrest of Frank Bowen on the charge of assault and battery. This morning Bowen went before Judge Fowler and secured a like document for the arrest of Crandall. The affair grows out of the old town site row.”

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Fast forward to 1903, when the railroad station agent at Ben Clare, a gentlemen named Henry Steagald, was in fear for his life following an argument with Bowen. “They had a heated discussion and Bowen threatened to kill the agent … Steagald who is small, nervous and almost hysterical, was so afraid of (Bowen) that … he had locked himself in his room and that on the morning (of Feb. 27, 1903) he sent his wife for the mail, being afraid to go himself.”

The Argus Leader stories on Feb. 27 and Feb. 28 said, “Mr. Bowen, accompanied by his 12-year-old son, went to the depot and had some more words with the agent. Henry Steagald … sent a bullet through the brain of Frank Bowen

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at Ben Clare, causing his instant death, and then, in his frenzy, shot twice more, sending another bullet into the prostrate form of his victim and a third into the shoulder of his 12-year-old son.”

Mrs. Frank Bowen sued the Illinois Central Railroad for damages and also sued an insurance company for non-payment of a policy which Mr. Bowen had partially paid for.

She lost both cases.

Ultimately, Steagald escaped a prison term or worse when he was found to be insane and transported to the insane asylum at Yankton.

By the time of Bowen’s death, many local business owners had already left town to start elsewhere, and Ben Clare was never the same.

The post office closed in 1912, the buildings were demolished, and the streets were plowed up by area farmers.

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By Bob Fitch

For students at Menno High School, agricultural education classes provide skills which are applicable and transferable to any number of careers, be they farm-related or not.

First and foremost is problem solving and independent critical thinking. “I help them, but I want them to figure out making mistakes is ok; and then figure out how to get past those mistakes,” said Amie Carter, ag instructor at Menno High School.

In the Introduction to Horticulture class, students have been applying this trial-and-error method to an aquaponics project.

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Simply put, the fish waste provides nutrients for the plants.

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Students Weston Freier and Laura Fischer with Menno High School ag teacher Amie Carter.

Plants typically grown in aquaponic systems include lettuce, kale, watercress, arugula, decorative flowers, mint, herbs, okras, spring onions and leek, radishes, spinach and other small vegetables. Cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, broccoli and cauliflower can require more nutrition and a more advanced aquaponic system.

Carter said, “This has all been their design and their construction. They came up with a PVC grow bed where they’ve decided to grow lettuce. We’ve taken trips to the lumberyard sometimes to figure out pricing for things. They are really the driving force behind all of this. They come in during study hall and power hour to work on the project.

They’re an awesome group of kids. They’ll bring buddies with sometimes to help work on it.”

Laura Fischer, daughter of Mark and Michelle Fischer, is a junior at MHS and one of the students in the horticulture class.

“Aquaponics is used in cities to grow food where they don’t have outside places to grow in the soil.” Fischer said she had been considering a career as a veterinary technician, but is now leaning towards going to Stewart School in Sioux Falls.

Senior student Weston Freier, son of Tim and Sherry Freier, liked the idea of aquaponics because “it was pretty cool to be able to add the fish to it. The poop from the fish gets sucked up in the tube and those nutrients help the plants grow.” After graduation, Freier is planning to work at Vermeer Manufacturing, giving himself time to think about where he November 2020 | www.agemedia.pub | The Farming Families Magazine

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The new ag and industrial arts shop includes a laser engraver (left) and a welding area.

might want to go to college.

Other students in the class are Brandon Ahalt, son of Tracey and Fawnell Burkett; and Logan Schmidt, son of Deb and Barry Schmidt.

Carter said, “Aquaponics is more urban agriculture, but there are places where they have whole warehouses with aquaponics growing. They’re learning how plants grow and the nutrients that go with it, especially with the water, balancing out the nitrates and nitrites to grow plants and figuring out how much light is needed. The project provides good problem solving skills to prepare for their careers in life.”

Like many of the high school’s agriculture classes, the horticulture class and the aquaponics project cover a lot of disciplines including math, botany, physics, biology, chemistry, nutrition, construction, engineering, ecology, economics and marketing. Sometimes described as “immersive learning,” handson projects such as this one help connect science, technology, engineering and math to realworld applications. Communication and collaboration skills are also enhanced.

Carter is in her first year of teaching after graduating from South Dakota State University with a degree in agricultural education. She’s a native of Platteville, a city in southwest

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Wisconsin not far from Dubuque, Iowa. She grew up on a hobby farm with horses, sheep and sometimes cattle. Through high school and while on break during her college years, Carter worked on a dairy farm near her parent’s home. “I love the kids and the community here in Menno.

And we’ve got cool facilities with a new shop for the ag classes.”

Carter’s responsibilities include a broad array of class topics including animal science; plant science; wildlife and fisheries; horticulture; ag business, leadership and communications; ag structures and mechanics, and ag systems and power. Both Freier and Fischer said animal science was their favorite ag class.

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Menno High School student Tyler Massey works on a project as part of the ag structures class at Menno High School.

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LINCOLN COUNTY FAMILY

Danny and Joan Harris of Harrisburg.

A LIFETIME OF WATCHING ‘UNREAL’ GROWTH IN HARRISBURG

by Bob Fitch

Retired farmer and longtime Harrisburg School District bus driver Danny Harris has seen and been a part of a lot of the town’s history – from its days as a small farming community to its explosive growth as South Dakota’s fastest growing municipality.

When Danny Harris was born in rural Lincoln County in 1939, the population of Harrisburg was less than 250 people. The 2020 census is expected to peg today’s population at more than 7,000.

When Danny graduated from Harrisburg High School in 1957, his class included 26 students.

When his son Dan graduated from Harrisburg High in 1981, the size of the graduating class had only grown to 36. Harrisburg’s 2020 class included 304 graduates.

When Danny started driving bus for the Harrisburg School District, there were four routes and four or

Julie and Greg Hammer with their dog Whiskey.

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five drivers. Today, he’s one of 38 drivers covering 32 routes.

When Danny parked his tractor for the final time in 2008, he was farming land north of 57th Street between Southeastern and Sycamore Avenues. That area is all houses now.

Needless to say, Danny Harris has seen a lot of growth in Harrisburg and the surrounding area in his 81 years.

Before Harrisburg was even a town, the story goes that the stagecoach stop on Nine Mile Creek was named “Harrisburg” after Danny’s

great-great-grandfather. Johnson Harris was a pioneer farmer in Dayton Township.

“I started school at the Schindler country school, district 44.

Then I started going to school in Harrisburg when I was in 7th grade,” Danny said. Even his daughters started at the Schindler country school in the 1960s. “Out in the country, we had one teacher who taught all the grades. When we came to town for school, there was one teacher for 7th and 8th grade together.”

He has fond memories of his school days. “I will never forget.

The fire escape from the second floor was in our classroom. It was one of those big round tubes. We got in trouble for going down.”

The football field in his high school days is where the Liberty playground is now. “Part of the field overlapped with the baseball field. I think the field was only 80 yards long. I played in the second or third year that Harrisburg had football. That was 6-man football. On the offense, there was the quarterback, center, two ends and two fullbacks.

I was a fullback. We were pretty good, but Brandon was better,” he said.

“In the ‘50s, Harrisburg had the best gymnasium in the conference. It was bigger than anybody else’s. Colton had the smallest gym I ever saw. The fans stood above the court looking down from a railing. Worthing’s basketball court was in an old Quonset,” he said. Although there had been girls’ basketball in earlier years, by the time he was in school, there were no sports teams for girls. Cheerleading was the only athletic opportunity for them.

One thing which was similar to today was a major health scare – the polio epidemic of 1948. “The school was shut down for a month during the polio epidemic. My brother, Jack, who was 5 or 6, had polio and was in an iron lung. My folks dropped him off at McKennan Hospital and couldn’t go back to see him for 30 days.

“We lost two kids out of our school and one parent. My brother pretty much fully recovered. But there were a lot of people in this area who got disabilities from polio. Many had deformed legs.” At least 67 people in Sioux Falls died from polio in in 1948 alone.

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expanding and expanding ever since. Before that, they were using an old Studebaker for a fire truck.”

Danny was on the volunteer fire department for 51 years. He still cooks oysters at their December appreciation event. In days gone by, the appreciation event was a pheasant hunt followed by a pheasant dinner.

Danny Harris with the Harrisburg High School basketball team (from the 1957 Tiger Tracks yearbook).

Danny is standing, fourth from the left.

Danny has also seen the rise, fall and rise again of the business fortunes in the town. At one time, he remembered, there was a stockyards along the railroad tracks east of town from which farmers would ship their livestock.

Across the street north from the old bank building downtown, there was a grocery store and café. Where Meraki Salon is located now, youth in the years before him would play their basketball games in the upper level of that building. There was a gas station where Fresh Horses Saloon is located today.

Going south from the old bank building at the corner of Willow and

Railroad Avenue, he said there was a drug store and down from that was a barber who also fixed radios.

Further down still was a second grocery store. The fire station was where the city building is now.

Today’s post office sits where there was once an auto repair shop.

His family didn’t really go to Sioux Falls that often. “We went to Canton every Saturday night where we sold our eggs. Then we’d go roller skating there,” Danny said.

He was among the farmers who worked hard to help expand the Harrisburg Fire Department so it could provide service to rural areas. “In 1964, we bought a new fire truck and we’ve just kept

He was around for the first iteration of Harrisburg Days in the 1960s. The fire department had a huge tractor pull and barbecue for a fundraiser. Also in the mid1960s, they raised money for a new baseball field by hunting jackrabbits and selling the pelts.

“We’d surround sections of land and shoot jackrabbits. We had truckloads of jackrabbits.”

Danny continues to live on the home farmstead which is 1.5 miles east and 1.5 miles north of the Harrisburg fire station. His children still own the cropland in a limited liability corporation, although someone else farms the land now.

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• 10 tablespoons butter, frozen and coarsely grated • 2 green onions, thinly sliced • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper • 3/4 cup whole milk • 1 large egg, beaten

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2. Meanwhile, place cream, butter, thyme, parsley, bay leaf, and peppercorns in small saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 3 minutes, then remove from heat.

3. Strain cream mixture into pot with potatoes. Add 3/4 teaspoon salt and mash to desired consistency. Sprinkle with nutmeg before serving if desired. www.goodhousekeeping.com/food-recipes/a14963/garlicky-herb-mashed-potatoesrecipe-ghk0313

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