2008 Press Releases

January

• Sunday program at Cultural Heritage Center features Duck Stamps

• Special opportunities planned for this weekend at Cultural Heritage Center

• Lauck to discuss book at Cultural Heritage Center

• State Historical Society lists nine more properties on National Register

• State Historical Society board approves property tax moratorium applications

• State Historical Society offers 1885 Civil War Veteran Census online

• Research grant recipient visits State Historical Society-Archives

• Cultural Heritage Center hosting humorous look at ice fishing

February

• State Historical Society places index to cemetery records online

• Fight for capital featured in new exhibit at Capitol

• Cultural Heritage Center exhibits recent donations

• State Historical Society publishes new book about African Americans in South Dakota

• State Historical Society recognizing Black History Month

• State Historical Society seeking material on North by Northwest

• Free program at Cultural Heritage Center to launch new book, focus on African Americans in South Dakota

• State Historical Society offers online biographical index of South Dakotans

• State Historical Society highlighting Newspaper in Education Week

• State Historical Society receives federal conservation resources

March

• Two great books from South Dakota State Historical Society put focus on Women’s History Month

• Learn about field dressing big game at Cultural Heritage Center

• Still time to participate in State Historical Society School Census Project

• State Historical Society highlights Women’s History Month with Dibble photo
  collection

• Cultural Heritage Center hosting ‘Deliver the Vote’ author

• Vogt set to testify before House Appropriations Committee

• Washington fifth graders learn history from newspapers at State Archives

• Rapid City hosting South Dakota State Historical Society 2008 Annual History Conference

• Easter schedule set for Cultural Heritage Center

• State Historical Society work selected Most Outstanding Children’s Book of 2008

April

• Cultural Heritage Center hosting renown cowgirl poet

• Public input needed for Pierre and Fort Pierre historic preservation plans

• Kilian to sign new book at Cultural Heritage Center

• State Historical Society sponsoring bus museum tour

• Cultural Heritage Center exhibits recent donations

• Vogt named to national historic preservation review panel

• Legislative process forum coming to Cultural Heritage Center

• State Historical Society urges disaster preparedness

• State Historical Society to present Governor’s Awards for History

• Learn about field dressing big game at Cultural Heritage Center

May

• Free admission Sunday at Cultural Heritage Center

• Holiday, summer hours announced for Cultural Heritage Center museum

• Fourth graders reveal interests in State Historical Society census

• State Historical Society recognizes Cultural Heritage Center volunteers

• New traveling exhibit available from State Historical Society

June

• Gov. Rounds announces historic preservation grants

• State Historical Society Web site features Capitol cornerstone anniversary

• State Historical Society offers Ft. Pierre–Deadwood Trail Historical Atlas

July

• Cultural Heritage Center invites visitors for holiday weekend

• South Dakota wins four national history awards

• Miller new Heritage Fund president

August

• State Historical Society announces fall Deadwood Fund grant applications

• Aberdeen man to lead State Historical Society board

• New State Historical Society traveling exhibit features fight for capital city

• State Historical Society hosting PBS in archaeological project

• Take a tour of South Dakota’s wineries with new book from State Historical Society
   

• Regular hours returning to Cultural Heritage Center

September

• State Historical Society offers property tax moratorium

• Something fishy happening at Cultural Heritage Center

• Environmental Sustainability and Living with Nature in new book from South Dakota State Historical Society

• State Historical Society looking for children’s book illustrators

• Field dressing big game program at Cultural Heritage Center

• Cultural Heritage Center exhibit celebrates Pheasantennial

• Historical community development workshop coming to Mitchell

• State Historical Society again offering fourth grade school census

• Research grant offered through State Historical Society

• State Historical Society seeks preservation input

• New book from the State Historical Society considers two Deadwood legends

October

• Rounds proclaims October as ‘Archives Month’

• Deadwood author presenting at Cultural Heritage Center

• Woonsocket film footage to be shown during Archives Month

• State Historical Society Book Wins WILLA Award

• Waiting for Coyote’s Call Author Signing Books in Pierre

• Ft. Pierre-Deadwood Trail Ride Presentation at Cultural Heritage Center

• State Historical Society Web site highlights 1908 presidential election

• New State Historical Society Book Celebrates 100 Years of the State Capitol

• Newbery Honor Book Set in Tripp County

• Lincoln re-enactor coming to Cultural Heritage Center

• State Historical Society offers 1885 Civil War Veterans Census online

• Collection Care presentation at Cultural Heritage Center

• State Historical Society-Archives offers online newsletter

• Gingerbread House creators sought

November

• South Dakota State Historical Society Wins Two More Awards

• State Historical Society lists four more properties on National Register

• State Historical Society shares brief history of Veteran’s Day

• State Historical Society plans holiday events