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Nicolas Cage: ‘No One Knows How Beautiful the Black Hills Are’
Merci beaucoup to my friend Mason for finding this clip, which may be the most inspiring video I've ever seen about the Black Hills. You know, in that completely un-hokey kind of way. Seriously, I was a bit surprised this didn't turn out cheesy, but it's actually quite good. Up on the IMDB under the National Treasure: Book of Secrets entry, there's a video clip that looks like it might have come from the DVD's special features It's only about 90 seconds long, but it's all about how the cast and crew of the movie were utterly thrilled with the Black Hills and western South Dakota.
Planning for Mount Rushmore’s Fireworks Show
This whole Fourth-of-July thing has taken me a little by surprise. It's barely even June, isn't it? Wait, the 27th? Blast. Where's the summer gone? I haven't been playing outside nearly enough. If you haven't made plans yet, you've still got a week to get your act together. If you're struggling for idea, think about Mount Rushmore's Independence Day celebration, which kicks off next Thursday. I did a little research and found surprisingly little about the festivities. Even the National Park Service site, which set up a special area for Independence Day activities, barely even acknowledged that Rushmore's doing anything special for the Fourth. Strange, considering they've got pictures of Rushmore plastered everywhere.
Tipis and Telescopes in the Badlands One of the best places to see the night sky is Badlands National Park. Not only are there no city lights to obscure the glow of the stars, but there aren't any trees to narrow the visual range. I remember sleeping outside in the Badlands as a youngster and seeing for the first time a satellite make its way from north to south along the amazing dome of star-filled darkness. This summer, Badlands National Park is getting serious about its night sky.
Rushmore adorns postage stamp — again For the fourth time in its history, the image of Mount Rushmore National Memorial has been appeared on a U.S. Postal Service postage stamp. The new Priority Mail stamp ($4.80) was issued on Thursday. To commemorate the release of the stamp, officials from the U.S. Postal Service and the National Park Service held a first-day cancellation ceremony on Mount Rushmore’s Grand View Terrace.
History Channel visits Mammoth Site
(Photo courtesy of the Mammoth Site: Dr. Larry Agenbroad is interviewed by a film crew from the History Channel in the bone storage area at the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs.) -- The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs is one of my favorite places in the Black Hills. It's a paleontology dig and a museum rolled into one very fascinating site. You get an up-close view of hundreds of mammoth bones while they are being excavated. And the facility is set up in a way that really does a good job of telling the sad story of these ill-fated creatures. Now the History Channel is telling that story as well. A crew from the History Channel series "Evolve" was in Hot Spring to film the site and to interview Dr. Larry Agenbroad, the scientist who has been involved in the project from its beginning.
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