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Summer 2008
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and regional awareness of heritage and the natural world.
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•A great museum offers great learning
opportunties.
Families can make frequent visits to ever-changing
exhibits and the Children’s Library-Lab—cool alternatives
for hot summer days and warm spaces on cold and rainy
days! Grandparents can bring grandchildren on their
membership. Members enjoy free admissions or reduced
rates to a host of events throughout the year.
The Journey Museum Newsletter Summer 2008
It’s a kids’ place!
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shopping.
Discriminating shoppers enjoy member discounts at one
of Rapid City’s premier shopping venues—The Journey
Store! Members receive notice of members-only discounts,
holiday sales events, book signings and other special
events.
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When the Bush Foundation awarded a $366,000 grant to
expand The Journey Museum’s education mission and develop
programming for children and youth, our dreams began to take
wing.
Today, Teen Team members design activity tables, produce
discovery materials for the new Children’s Learning Lab, help host
receptions and lead Sunday Family Fun Days.
Expanding the involvement of public schools beyond the
traditional field trips concept, Teacher Ambassadors research and
write curriculum based on the museum’s collections.
Local families, tour groups like Intergenerational Elderhostels
and kids from out of town use scavenger hunt flyers and touch boxes,
crawl inside a real teepee made of bison hides, and delightedly set
off the roar of a T.rex or the shot that killed Wild Bill.
Adults, of course, discover that what makes the museum
collection engaging to children and teens invities adult learners to
become more active museum visitors, too.
Montana tourists Katee and Aubree Bohrer
riding sidesaddle, North Middle School
teens exploring the rock box, children and
grandparents touring with Elderhostel—
for local kids and visitors, The Journey’s
hands–on exhibits and experiences reflect
contemporary museum concepts.
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Exploradome July 24th visit offers public preview of possible “wow” science feature
The Journey Museum will bring the Minnesota Planetarium Society’s
portable planetarium dome to Rapid City for public viewing on Thursday,
July 24th. The ExploraDome will be in The Journey Museum from 1 to 4
p.m. on Thursday afternoon and will be in the Dynamic Martial Arts facility
at 516 Seventh Street from 5:30 to 8:30 during the Summer Nights on 7th
festivities. Admission at either facility to experience the Planetarium is $1.00
per person.
Participants have the sensation of traveling from inside the subatomic
realm to the edge of the known universe while observing the planets along
the way.
Director Ray Summers says that public response to the visiting planetarium
will be gauged to see what kind of civic support a small museum planetarium
might receive.
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It’s Your museum...
www.journeymuseum.org
YOU are invited...
‘Celebration of Light’ Northern Plains
Watercolor Society 2008 show Aug. 15
– Sept. 21. Details on page 6.
The ExploraDome is a portable, immersive learning
environment where visitors experience “hands-on, minds-on”
learning beneath a 25 foot diameter dome.
Family Fun Sundays from 2–4
p.m. Sundays July 20, Aug.
17, Sept. 21. Details on page 8.
“Stitches and Strokes.” Black
Hills Quilters Guild and Black Hills
Decorative Painters through Aug. 10
in Adelstein Gallery
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The Journey Museum is the
education venue that serves
as a forum to preserve and
explore the heritage of the
cultures of the Black Hills
region and the knowledge
of its natural environment to
understand and value our past,
enrich our present, and meet
the challenges of the future.
Please direct all inquiries to:
Ray Summers, Executive
Director
(605) 394-2249
The Journey Museum
222 New York St.
Rapid City, SD 57701
[email protected]
The Turtle Times is published
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inform the friends and patrons
of The Journey Museum, a 501
(c) (3). Non-Profit organization
dedicated to preserving the heritage
of the Black Hills area. Editor:
Donna Fisher
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Schedule of Events
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News from the Director’s Corner
It’s YOUR museum...looking toward ‘star’ quality
The Journey Museum’s board, our volunteers and the staff have
worked diligently these past eleven years to make the museum a viable
part of our community and a welcoming and educational experience
for all our visitors. We have made incredible strides; however, as with
any institution or business we must continuously examine ways to
enrich the museum experience.
We are currently at a juncture where a change is necessary. For
the past two years our board and staff have examined numerous
Ray Summers,
projects that would enhance and enliven the visitor experience and Executive Director
recently approved a plan to evaluate a project to incorporate a small
planetarium into the museum. The process begins with the introduction of a portable
planetarium dome from the Minnesota Planetarium Society on Wednesday and Thursday,
July 23 and 24.
The ExploraDome is a portable, immersive learning environment where visitors
experience “hands-on, minds-on” learning; you can virtually travel from inside of the
subatomic realm to the edge of the known universe while observing the planets along the
way. The ExploraDome experience features an entertaining opportunity to learn about the
universe in which we live through a high quality, interactive, visual program underneath
a 25 foot diameter dome. The ExploraDome program inspires minds and leaves a lasting
impression on kids and adults of all ages.
The planetarium system is comprised of three major components: a) The dome would
be incorporated into the star-room space. The actual configuration and size will be evaluated
by the Program Director of the Minnesota Planetarium Society while here later in July with
the ExploraDome. b) The UniView digital database is the heart of the tremendous capability
of the planetarium. The content of the database is massive; every known and imaged body
in the universe is included in an immersive, scalable (videogame-like) presentation with
the viewer “flying” through virtual space. c) The projections system is a single fish-eye
lens that fills the entire spherical screen providing the sensation of near total immersion.
If we have accurately gauged the community support for the planetarium project,
a fundraising campaign will begin to raise the funds necessary to make the facility
modifications and install the dome and projection system. The planetarium will have a
tremendous impact on our education outreach program in support of science, technology,
engineering and mathematics as well as public programming.
The planetarium technology supports the capability of simultaneously presenting
programs here at The Journey Museum with a two-way audio link from major planetariums
such as the Gates Planetarium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science or the Hayden
Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
I strongly believe that this is the “wow” factor that we have been looking for to attract
a wider audience and solicit return visits from the local population, an essential ingredient
to long-term success of The Journey Museum.
Please share your enthusiasm for the museum with a friends; remind them that we
have corporate and individual memberships that make a great gifts. Thank you for your
support.
“Seasons of Stitches and Strokes”
by Black Hills Quilters Guild
and Black Hills Decorative Painters
through August 10
in the Adelstein Gallery
The Journey Museum •Your Black Hills’ natural and cultural history museum
• 222 New York Street • Rapid City, SD 57701 • 605-394-6923
•Summer Hours through Labor Day: Daily 9-6 p.m. •www.journeymuseum.org
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benefits of museum membership.Benefits of membership
make the small annual fee a great bargain.
Do the math!
If a family of two adults ($7) and two children ($5, under
10 free) visit the main collection only twice a year, attend one
storyteller session or science program ( $3 but free to members)
and a museum-sponsored event (usually $5-15) but discounted to
members), they’ll pay an estimated $78. Take the 10% discount
purchasing gifts at the Museum Store and add three guest passes at
$21 and an annual family membership makes financial sense. For
an additional bargain, use the enclosed SD Magazine offer get a
discounted subscription when you become a Journey member.
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The Journey Museum •Your Black Hills’ natural and cultural history museum
• 222 New York Street • Rapid City, SD 57701 • 605-394-6923
• •Summer Hours through Labor Day: Daily 9-6 p.m. •www.journeymuseum.org
Summer 2008 Page 10
The Archaeological Research Center
Jim Haug, State Archaeologist
Public archaeology projects add to Deadwood history, 9500 year-old Harding Co.site
Dr. Larry Bradley (USD) and students from Black Hills State and the
University of South Dakota excavating in Elizabeth Town, Deadwood,
SD. Photo from SD Archaeological Research Center.
A volunteer program of the South Dakota State Historical
Society combined with a field school including Black Hills State
(BHU) and the University of South Dakota (USD) was held this
past May at a location in Deadwood, (Elizabeth Town) SD and at
a site in Harding County, SD. The site in Deadwood consisted of
a currently vacant lot in what was Elizabeth Town, the location of
the first major gold rich gravels in the Black Hills.
Dr. David Wolf (BHSU) and students map features in the Deadwood
Elizabeth Town excavations. Photo from SD Archaeological Research
Center.
The project was exploratory in nature and designed to identify
early structures supporting a community associated with early gold
extraction.
Excavations at this location determined that the majority of the
early stores associated with the community that would have been
located on the main thoroughfare have been destroyed by modern road
construction. There may be a chance for the portions of the back of
the early lots to remain.
Early tourism
to the Black Hills
was also examined
through
the
excavation of 1940s
era tourist cabins, as
well as preliminary
investigations into
a dwelling/boarding
house circa 18901923.
Despite heavy
r a i n s a n d s n o w,
the volunteers and
students documented
new information on
the history of the
Deadwood area.
The second part
of the project included
. Alberta/Cody points from the Burgduff site.
continued excavations
at a circa 9500 year old site in Harding County called the Burgduff
site. When it was first located, three projectile points identified as
Alberta/Cody points were found in context with bone eroding out
of a gently sloping surface. Late investigations identified a scraper
and a small number of flakes.
At first the site was thought to be a bison kill site. This year’s
investigations determined that the site is a stratified camp site where
portions of game animals brought back to camp were disposed of
including a mix of different game animals such as deer, elk and
possibly pronghorn.
Soil cores placed upslope from the midden of bone identified
hearths and living surfaces at depths of 60 cm and 100 cm which
supports that the site was used by two different populations during the
Paleoindian period. The site will certainly be the focus of continued
work in the near future.
Coming Sept. 28, 2008 to the Adelstein Gallery
‘Fencing the West: Buffalo to Barbed Wire’: real cattlemen, cowboys, cattle queens, American Indians,
homesteaders and others whose lives were forever changed by a string of barbed wire.
The Journey Museum •Your Black Hills’ natural and cultural history museum
• 222 New York Street • Rapid City, SD 57701 • 605-394-6923
•Summer Hours through Labor Day: Daily 9-6 p.m. •www.journeymuseum.org
Summer 2008 Page 3
The Journey Museum Events Summer-Fall 2008
Stanford Adelstein Gallery “Seasons of Stitches and Strokes” by Black Hills Quilters Guild and Black Hills Decorative Through Aug. 10
Painters. Free to the public.
Sioux Indian Gallery
Stained glass by Maanii Baldon (Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians)
Through Aug. 27
Tues. July 22 and Tues. July 29 Tues. Thurs.& Sat. July 17, 19, 22, 24, 26, 29, 31; Aug. 2, 5
Sacred Balance film series sponsored by Black Hills Group of the Sierra Club,
6:30 p.m. in Wells Fargo Theater with eco-events at 5:30 in Journey Gardens. Donation.
Sat., July 19 GPS Basics with Kelly Lane. $5 (members free) 10:30a.m.-12:00 noon (members free). Call 394-2535 to register. Activity Tables for 2nd grade and younger. 1-3pm. See titles on page 8.
Free for the child and $7 for accompanying adult. Contact: Kristi Thielen – 394-4103 Sun., July 20 Family Fun Day “Beautiful Butterflies” 2-4 pm, $3 ea. (admission to the museum included)
See a video about butterflies, visit the Butterfly Garden and do a butterfly art project. Call 394-4103 for more information and reservation.
Wed, July 23 Minnesota Planetarium Society’s Exploradome
Invitation -only preview of this digital planetarium. 7pm
Thurs., July 24 Exploradome open to the public in the Adelstein Gallery 1-4pm. Nominal fee of $1.00 Exploradome will be on 7th Street in downtown Rapid City as part of the
Summer on Seventh festivities 5:30-8:30pm. Nominal fee of $1.00
Stanford Adelstein Gallery
“Celebration of Light” Northern Plains Watercolor Society 2008 Exhibit.
Aug. 15 – Sept. 21 Opening public reception Fri. Aug. 15. 5-7 p.m.
Sat., Aug.16 GPS Basics with Kelly Lane. $5 (members free) 10:30a.m.-12:00 noon (members free). Call 394-2535 to register. Sun., Aug. 17 Family Fun Day “Dog Days of Summer” 2-4 pm, $3 ea. (admission to the museum included)
. See a video about dogs, make some puppy art and learn how to take good care of your pet. Call 394-4103 for more information and reservation.
Sioux Indian Museum gallery
August 30 – October 29, 2008.
Paintings by De Haven Solimon Chaffins
Stanford Adelstein Gallery Sept. 28, 2008—Mar. 22, 2008
“Fencing the West: Buffalo to Barbed Wire”
in the Adlestein Gallery
Remember, we’re open till 9-6 p.m. every day all summer!
It’s OUR Museum....
Is it yours?
The Journey Museum •Your Black Hills’ natural and cultural history museum
• 222 New York Street • Rapid City, SD 57701 • 605-394-6923
•Summer Hours through Labor Day: Daily 9-6 p.m. •www.journeymuseum.org
Summer 2008 Page 9
Summer 2008 Page The Sioux Indian Museum
Paulette Montileaux, Director
Stained glass work by Maanii Baldon shown through August 27
Stained glass artist Maanii Baldon is an enrolled member of the Little
Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in Harbor Springs, Michigan. This
exhibition is her first solo exhibition to be presented in South Dakota.
In 2003 she took a 10-hour course in stained glass. These pieces as she
describes them are “…like storytelling. It takes on different meanings at different
times in one’s life. The viewer takes from it what they need at the time. Art has
always been my balance, my outlet and it has kept me grounded through good
times and bad. I don’t have deep or heavy words for you about my art because
I did not plan a career in art. It was just destiny.”
She was born Mary A. Baldon August 4, 1958 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Coming from a family of artists, Maanii began creating artwork as a hobby,
making quilts and going to ceramics classes. After graduating in 1976 from
DuPont Manual High School, Louisville, KY she went to work in fashion design
as a model, seamstress and consultant while raising her family.
Through encouragement by family and friends Maanii began to pursue a
career in art. She moved to Boston, MA in 1990 and began an earnest effort
in developing her knowledge and talents by going to museums and studying
works of art.
Wanting to learn more about her Native American culture she moved to
Brimley, MI in 1995. In 1997-1999 she attended Bay Mills Community College,
earning an Associate of Arts and Associate of Applied Science degree. She was
awarded a full scholarship to attend the White Mountain Academy of Arts in
Bwaajige-nkwebjiganag (The Dreamcatchers. Photo
Elliot Lake, Ontario Canada and received an Associate of Arts degree in 2000. by Sioux Indian Museum
During this time she traveled between Michigan and Canada as a representative
promoting education, language and the arts for native people and spent two
summers on the “pow-wow trail”.In 2001 she moved back to Louisville, KY and continued her career in the arts and showcased
her work in group shows since 1990 in Michigan, Massachusetts, Kentucky and Ontario, Canada.
Prices of work for sale can be obtained from The Journey Museum Store at 1-605-394-2201. After the exhibit closes contact
Maanii Baldon at 3191 South Third Street, # 5, Louisville, KY 40214; tel: 1-502-552-0374 or email: [email protected].
The next special exhibit to be featured in the Sioux Indian Museum gallery is paintings by De Haven Solimon Chaffins
August 30 – October 29, 2008.
Kid’s Place continued from page 1
Katee and Aubree
Bohrer, Deer
Lodge, Montana,
don pioneer garb
from the Minnilusa
costume box and
pose for pictures
with famous Rapid
City historical
figures, Dr. Valentine
McGillicuddy and his
wife Fanny. Photo by
Donna Fisher.
Youth Director Kristi Thielen’s plays like “Not Just High
Water” will offer performance and production experience based
on museum resources. Future productions of “museum theatre”
are already in the works.
Hands-on props seem to invite imagination and connections.
Stop near the costume trunk in the Minnilusa gallery and you’ll
see kids “dressing the part” as they try out a saddle or peer into
the homesteader’s cabin.
These days exhibit planners in the Adelstein Gallery work
with staff to think of ways to involve children. For example, an
activity table designed by the Teen Team in the current “Stitches
and Strokes” show invites young visitors to experiment with
design and color. (See story on page 9)
Bring a child to the museum as often as you can —it’s a
wonderful way to rediscover science and history.
The Journey Museum •Your Black Hills’ natural and cultural history museum
• 222 New York Street • Rapid City, SD 57701 • 605-394-6923
•Summer Hours through Labor Day: Daily 9-6 p.m. •www.journeymuseum.org
We’re About Education!
Diane Melvin, Education Director
Kristi Thielen, Youth Coordinator
Bravo to NJHW cast and crew!
The full version of “Not Just High Water” played in the
Wells Fargo Theatre June 6-8 to enthusiastic audiences and a
considerable amount of media attention.
Future production of “museum theatre” are already in the
works. Buffalo Gals, an all-girls play related in subject to the
“Fencing the West” exhibit opening in the Adelstein Gallery, is
planned for October. Several of the “Not Just High Water” cast
members have already indicated an interest in the all-girls play.
In February, a puppet play about dinosaurs entitled “Who Ate the
Paleontologist?” will highlight the visit of BUCKY the T.rex to
the geology gallery and in April, “Help Us Hattie Ghost Bear!”
features a Lakota girl who loves to read and solves mysteries
using the Lakota and English languages.
Twenty-eight NJHW performers, ranging in age from 5
to 18, were a part of the summer production. “Many of these
young people had never been in a play before,” said director and
playwright Kristi Thielen. “Their growth during the rehearsal
process was remarkable. Learning to project so that you can
be heard throughout the theatre is one of the toughest things for
young actors to do. Six-year-old Alexandra Boyd had problems
with this initially; by the time she was in performance, I could
hear her lines being spoken from the museum lobby!”
Children’s table for quilt and decorative painting
show makes hit with visitors
To help drive traffic to exhibits in the Adelstein Gallery,
the Education Department will try to create and oversee a
correlated activity table.
The “Stitches and Strokes” table includes children’s books
and coloring sheets which replicated quilt patterns. A basket of
felt pieces cut into the shapes often found on quilts, provided
“quilters” pieces to fashion a quilt design. The table also offered
a workbook at the 3-5th grade level, with information about
quilting and decorative painting. Several gallery sitters have
commented on the table’s ability to draw children.
All materials were created by Teen Team member Stephen
Engelhardt.
Included in the cast was Teen Team member Ana Knudsen.
Backstage crew work was also performed by the Teen Team:
Stephen Engelhardt ran lights, Katie Strand was stage manager,
Amy Feiock and Alex Marrs helped with front of house duties and
Brandon Fleming assisted with the set-up and tear-down of the cast
picnic, on the south lawn.
Teen Team changes
Teen Team members Cassie Nelin and David Strand have
left the team and a new member has come on: Jedadiah Richards.
Jedadiah did volunteer work at the museum during the spring under
the auspices Central High School’s Learn and Serve program, and
subscribers may recall that he was on the cover of the last issue of
Turtle Times.
Jedadiah is interested in pursuing a career as a film director.
He attended most of the “Not Just High Water” rehearsals, filmed
2 dress rehearsals and all performances and will use this material
to create a final film product of the play.
Exploradome continued from page 1
Funding for the planetarium’s visit came from Freed’s
Furniture Mart and from Don and Joan Perdue. Perdue is a
member of The Journey Museum board.
Additional funding came from Jacob Boschee, an
undergraduate at SDSM&T. Boschee received a $1,000 stipend
from the South Dakota Space Consortium with the hope of
donating it to a worthy local space-related project. He offered
the donation for the visiting planetarium.
General Manager Dave Dahl and some staff at Sam’s Club present a
$1,000 check for books and DVDs for our Children’s Library Lab. Photo
from Sam’s Club.
The Journey Museum •Your Black Hills’ natural and cultural history museum
• 222 New York Street • Rapid City, SD 57701 • 605-394-6923
•Summer Hours through Labor Day: Daily 9-6 p.m. •www.journeymuseum.org
Summer 2008 Page 8
We’re About Education!
Diane Melvin, Education Director
Kristi Thielen, Youth Coordinator
Vucurevich Foundation Grant helps launch Children’s Library and Learning Center
The Education Department has been a bee hive of painting, refurbishing and
cleaning the old Archaeology Lab for the last six weeks! The new Children’s
Library Lab officially opened Tuesday, July 1, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony
at noon.
The John T. Vucurevich Foundation awarded The Journey Museum’s
Education Department a grant of $8500 for developing this children’s interactive
library lab with books, discovery activities, DVD library, computer, lab equipment
and a museum-quality Wentzscope microscope.
The Library Lab will be staffed by volunteers and the Teen Team and open
during nearly all hours of the museum’s operation for “drop in” use by families,
groups, and individuals visiting the museum.
The Library-Lab is a storehouse of multimedia materials and a go-to place
for activities, games and “discovery boxes” that can be checked out and enjoyed
throughout the museum. Teen Team members have created boxes on topics
including music, folk toys, dinosaurs, Lakota beading, birds, constellations.
Community members, visitors, and families will receive an enriched museum experience as they utilize hands-on activities that
correlate to artifacts in our galleries, or immerse themselves in books and materials about scientific, historical or cultural subjects of
their interest.
The Library-Lab will be utilized for work-shops on science,
nature, cultural history and other topics relating to exhibits or events
in the museum. Demonstrations and displays, done either on-site
or through long-distance learning capacities, will provide teachers
with curriculum enhancement and students with unique learning
opportunities
In the coming months, an interactive dig box with fossil artifacts
will replace the former dig box in the center of the Archaeology section.
Look for more information in the September issue.
For questions regarding the Children’s Library-Lab call the
Education Department at 605-394-2535 or 605-394-4103.
Activity Table Topics
for drop-by summer fun
•Thurs., July 24 Activity Table “Electricity
•Sat., July 26 Activity Table “Polution”
• Tues., July 29 Activity Table “Eggs”
•Thurs., July 31 Activity Table “Shamrocks” •Sat., Aug. 2 Activity Table “Pumpkins”
•Tues., Aug. 5 “Mailbox”
The Something on Saturday activity table has now been
running for a full year. SOS captain Alex Marrs and his fellow
Teen Team members have a full catalog of table themes and
projects. To make good use of all this material, the activity tables
will be expanded into August. Parents and children incur only a
$7.00 admission for any adult chaperone. Agencies, Scout troop
leaders or day care providers who wish to visit the tables on a
routine basis should contact the Education Department to discuss
use and group costs. Activity Tables are planned for 2nd grade
and younger. Contact: Kristi Thielen at 394-4103. Put Family Fun Days
on your calendar! 2-4 p.m.
•Sunday, July 20: Beautiful Butterflies. Visit our
butterfly garden and do a butterfly art project.
•Sunday, Aug. 17: Dog Days of Summer. Learn about
dogs, make some puppy art and learn how to take good
care of your pet.
•Sunday, Sept. 21: Color My World. Learn about color
and hang a watercolor project on our art clothesline.
Admission to all Family Fun Days is $3 per person
which provides admission to the museum, too. Call
394-4103 to let us know you’re coming so we’ll have
supplies for you.
The Journey Museum •Your Black Hills’ natural and cultural history museum
• 222 New York Street • Rapid City, SD 57701 • 605-394-6923
•Summer Hours through Labor Day: Daily 9-6 p.m. •www.journeymuseum.org
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The Minnilusa Pioneer Museum
Reid Riner, Director
Celebrating the Dog
It seems that wherever people have gone,
they have brought with them their trusty canine
companions. The frontier of the American West was
of course, no exception. Native Americans relied heavily on their dogs
as beasts of burden in dragging their travois across
the plains, especially in the days before they adopted
the horse culture. Dogs were also an effective means
of protecting villages from the stealthy approach of
enemies. Like other cultures, Native tribes made use
of their dogs in hunting and some tribes raised dogs
for food. Like dog lovers today, American Indians valued
their canines for their loyalty, fearlessness, cunning
and unflagging commitment to their owners. It is
no wonder that the Cheyenne’s most feared and
influential warrior society’s members are known as
Dog Soldiers, an allusion to their noble but humble
beginnings, fierce loyalty, courage, perseverance and
selfless commitment to the protection of the group. With the prospectors, soldiers, merchants,
traders, trappers and hunters that invaded the
American West came that most loyal companion. Adapting to a variety of climates, conditions and
tasks, the dog was used in finding and flushing fowl, tracking and treeing bears and mountain lions, eliminating rats and other rodents,
standing guard and warning of approaching danger, carrying supplies, herding stock, and pulling sleds. Although many pure bred dogs traveled with their owners to the West, an absence of breeders on the frontier and the great cost
and hazards of transportation from the centers of population made mixed breed dogs the staple of frontier settlements. Life for man’s best friend was no doubt more arduous on the early frontier. Lucking into a ”house dog” situation was the exception
and dogs generally made what accommodations they could in barns and under porches. Weather was highly variable and frequently
severe and many family dogs went almost entirely unprotected
from it save their own ingenuity. Veterinary care was reserved only for the critical larger
domestic animals of higher value such as horses and cows. On the
main, the family dog subsisted on table scraps and foraging.
One can conclude, that peoples of the early West loved and
cherished their dogs for the same reasons we do today as they
frequently mention them in their diaries, journals and other first
hand accounts. Descriptions of dogs protecting their families from
wolves, mountain lions and bears are not uncommon. It is also clear from accounts that the fear and loneliness that
afflicted many a traveler on the plains was significantly alleviated
Dedicated to Rio Riner 1995-2008
by the loyal companionship of dogs. Here’s what’s Coming to the Stanford Adelstein Gallery
Aug.15–Sept. 21
Northern Plains Watercolor Society 2008 Exhibit
Sept. 28 – Mar. 22, 2009 “Fencing the West: Buffalo to Barbed Wire ” (High Plains Western
Heritage Center & Museum, The Days of 76 Museum, and Minnilusa Pioneer Museum)
A Journey Hallmark—cultural & Museum Networking
The Journey Museum •Your Black Hills’ natural and cultural history museum
• 222 New York Street • Rapid City, SD 57701 • 605-394-6923
•Summer Hours through Labor Day: Daily 9-6 p.m. •www.journeymuseum.org
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The Journey Insider
You are represented in 2008 by The Journey Museum Board
Ivy Allard, Treasurer
Ruth Brennan
John Brocklesby
Dr. Duane Hrncir
It’s YOUR Museum...
Northern Plains Watercolor Society offers
‘Celebration of Light’ 2008 show
2007 First
Place winner
‘By the Sea’ by
Pat Johnson,
Watertown, SD.
She’s featured on
www.sdartists.net.
The Journey’s Adelstein Gallery hosts the Northern Plains
Watercolor Society Members 12th Annual Exhibition Aug. 17
through Sept. 21. Karen Knutson, an Eden Prairie, MN artist and
teacher, will jury the show with award presentations at the artist’s
reception Friday, Aug. 15 from 5-7 p.m.
Both the reception and the month-long exhibit are open and
free to the public. NPWS members will offer demonstrations at
various times throughout the exhibit.
Members from 14 states may enter works of “water media”
which means acrylics and gouache as well as watercolor.
Part of the NPWS mission is offering workshops for artists.
On Aug.16-19, NPWS sponsors a Karen Knutson watercolor
and collage workshop titled “Starting Traditionally, Moving to
Abstraction!” Contact NPWS president Sandra Newman for
information at 348-7711.
2007 Secnd
Place ‘Let
Me Entertain
You’ by
Sandra
Newman.,
Rapid City,
SD
Deb Hadcock, City Council
Neal Larson
Bill Okrepkie, City Council
Chuck Parkinson
Don Perdue
Jim Preston
Jim Shaw, Chairperson
Dr. David Siemens
Raymond Summers
Fred Tully, Vice Chairperson
Lon VanDeusen
It’s YOUR Museum...
“What a great way to begin our Black Hills adventure!” ~2007 tour group participant on Journey evaluation form
‘Fencing the West: Buffalo to Barbed Wire’ to run
in Adelstein Gallery from Sept. 28, 2008 to March 22, 2009
We’re looking for a few good gardeners.
The Journey Museum will invite “heritage families” and area businesses to help fund an exhibition
titled “Fencing the West: Buffalo to Barbed Wire ”in the Adelstein Gallery from Sept. 28, 2008 through
March 22, 2009.
This exhibition honors the courage and sacrifice of the real cattlemen, cowboys, cattle queens,
American Indians, homesteaders and others whose lives were forever changed by a string of barbed
wire. At the center of this story is the Big Roundup of 1902, when over 400 cowboys and 10,000 horses
drove their cattle from the Missouri River to the Black Hills following President Roosevelt’s order to
fence the Rosebud.
Names like Duhamel, Hump, Berry, Jennewein, Lemmon, Philips, Lemley, Jones, Mathieson and
dozens more populate this story. To tell the story through historic photos, artifacts, music, publications
and programming for adults and children, guest curator Deborah Gangloff of the Days of 76 Museum
in Deadwood has involved area museums and more than a dozen researchers.
“To tell this story well and to do it right requires a larger budget than we have. In order to do our
history the justice it deserves, we ask for your support,” says exhibit curator Deborah Gangloff of
Deadwood’s Days of ‘76 Museum.
Generous contributions will be acknowledged in publicity, the exhibition catalogue and in the gallery
itself during the exhibition. For a gift of $100 or more, contributors will receive free admission to special
programs during the course of the exhibition as well as a complimentary copy of the illustrated exhibition
catalogue compiled by Deborah Gangloff and Paul Higbee , writer for South Dakota Magazine.
Will you help us tell this important story? Your gift would be welcomed to help with the exhibition
costs in general, or to fund the reproduction of historic photographs, a program, or publication that is
of special importance to you. Please call director Ray Summers if you have questions or would like
to support this historic exhibition.
Scott McDonald, District
Manager & Camp
Secretary for Modern
Woodmen Fraternal
Financial in Rapid City
presents Education
Director Diane Melvin a
matching funds grant of
$2,500 for Kristi Thielen’s
theater production of
“Not Just High Water.”
Performances in the
Wells Fargo Theatre June
6-8 played to enthusiastic
audiences. Twenty-eight
performers, ranging in
age from 5 to 18, were
a part of the production.
Photo by M. Woodmen.
The Journey Museum •Your Black Hills’ natural and cultural history museum
• 222 New York Street • Rapid City, SD 57701 • 605-394-6923
•Summer Hours through Labor Day: Daily 9-6 p.m.. Sundays •www.journeymuseum.org
Please remember that the many Journey Museum gardens need
lots of care. Visit the gardens often for information about native
plants, mulching, and good gardening practices. If you can help us,
please call 394-2535 for more information.
Yee hah! BUCKY’s coming!
“BUCKY” is a sub-adult T. rex of the robust (female) morphotype.
The skeleton was discovered in 1998 by its namesake, Bucky Derflinger,
a rodeo cowboy and rancher, who was himself a sub-adult at the time of
discovery. The Black Hills Institute did the excavation in 2001 and 2002.
BUCKY was prepared, molded, and mounted by BHI for The Children’s
Museum of Indianapolis in 2004. A cast of BUCKY displayed in Faith.
SD, this spring and summer will arrive in mid-September to replace
ARCHELON the turtle in The Journey’s geology exhibit.
On an Intergenerational Elderhostel tour with
her grandparents from an eastern state, a child
studies characters from South Dakota’s ranching
history in the Minnilusa collection exhibit. “Fencing
the West’ will expand that story for families
through dozens of photos, exhibits, a publication
and programs.
The Journey Museum Store
Black HIlls Group of the Sierra Club sponsors
Tuesday evening Suzuki Film series
•July 22 The Fire of Creation - latest scientific findings on the sun.
Learn about bird watching in the region at 5:30
•July 29 Coming Home - human beings in nature. Talk with an
expert from Black Hills Fly Fishers at 5:30.
Admission to Wells Fargo Theater for 6:30 screening
is a free will donation.
Joan Hunter, Manager
Continuing their mission to offer earth-friendly products for home and gift-giving, Joan and her staff are displaying Olive
Oil Organics. These candles in elegant hand-blown glass and deep rich colors, are made with 100% natural olive oil and essential
oils for pure, clean burn up to 160 hours. Olive Oil Organics also feature home fragrance
oils and convenient candles in tins for travel and desktop.
Why wait until Christmas to “decorate” your life or brighten the day of an office
mate or family member? Kids and adults love the charming BrushArt™ critters from
super-abundant and self-regenerating Buri sugar palm. Stop at the “natural” corner of
the museum shop and invite these charmers to come home with you!
Remind your friends that Journey members take 10% off on all Museum Store
merchandise! Show your membership card and take home museum quality works of art,
books, clothing, games and souvenirs. No matter membership level you choose when
you join, you will receive a special gift from the Museum Store.
BrushArt™
The Journey Museum •Your Black Hills’ natural and cultural history museum
• 222 New York Street • Rapid City, SD 57701 • 605-394-6923
•Summer Hours through Labor Day: Daily 9-6 p.m. s •www.journeymuseum.org