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Flying Fortress to land in Rapid City
A reminder: If you’re near Rapid City this weekend, you might want to stop out at Rapid City Regional Airport for a look the fully restored B-17 “Flying Fortress.” You can get access to the aircraft display at the Westjet Air Center.
Want Travel Updates? Just Twitter. All right, I admit it: occasionally, I find it really hard to sit down and blog. Some days it's hard to string one coherent sentence together, let alone a whole paragraph of them. Fortunately, a guy named Jack Dorsey and a couple of his cohorts came up with a solution for me: Twitter. It's only been around for about a year and a half, but the concept is so great that it's taken off like Diablo Cody's career (who has a Twitter account, by the way). The idea is simple: micro-blogging, or blog posts of 140 characters or less. It sounded a little dopey to me at first, but SEO guru Matt Bailey finally turned me on to it. The applications are pretty great. With Twitter, you suddenly have the ability to blog 10 times a day without having to give up... well, the whole rest of your life. You can update from text messages on your mobile phone. Shorter updates mean less time for readers to stay updated. I've set up a Black Hills Twitter account as an experiment at www.twitter.com/BlackHills. If you're still not sure about this whole Twitter thing, don't sweat it. Go take a look at the Black Hills Twitter page and you'll get it figured out pretty quickly.
RC Dinos make ‘Weird America’ list Hunter Thompson said that when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. And when it comes to weird roadside attractions, the Black Hills of South Dakota have always been, at the least, semi-pro. Where else can you see live alligators, live kangaroos, giant Jackalopes, stuffed and mounted horses, singing cowboy robots and buildings that defy gravity? Or giant plaster presidents, wax presidents, bronze presidents and presidents carved in cheese (OK, I made that last one up)? You can even see chickens that play tic-tac-toe – and win every game. (I think they cheat.) Now, Rapid City’s Dinosaur Park has gained national fame as one of MSN City Guide’s 12 “Weird America” attractions.
Crazy Horse at the Black Hills Playhouse
Custer State Park is famous for its scenic drives, free-roaming wildlife, and impressively pointy geology. This might not be where you'd expect to find one of the longest-running summer theater companies in the United States, but there it is - tucked unpretentiously off Needles Highway. The Black Hills Playhouse was established in 1946 by a professor at the University of South Dakota. He moved his company into buildings which had originally been constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933. Since then, there have been numerous updates and improvements made to the facilities, which now host a world-class theater company composed of people from all over the country.
Obama Says His Ears Won’t Fit on Rushmore
We wrote recently about the chances of putting more presidential faces on Mount Rushmore National Memorial (very slim). Now Barack Obama has weighed in on the issue. Well, sort of. The likely Democratic candidate for president took a break Friday night between campaign stops in Montana and South Dakota – where the last presidential primaries are taking place on Tuesday – to visit the Shrine of Democracy. According to a Reuters story, Omaba laughed when asked if he could image his own likeness chiseled into the granite monument someday. "I don't think my ears would fit," he said. "There's only so much rock up there."
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