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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.
A big homecoming for Sue, the T. rex Normally, the Field Museum of Chicago brings its “A T. rex Named Sue,” traveling exhibit – with a 42-foot plaster replica of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever found -- only to large-city venues. But Faith, S.D., can claim something no other city can. It’s Sue’s hometown. Just 13 miles north of town, Sue was unearthed by a team from Hill City, S.D.,-based Black Hills Institute of Geological Research back in 1990. The Field Museum later acquired the fossil for $8.4 million and put her on display in Chicago. The Field Museum's traveling Sue exhibit opens in Faith on Saturday, May 10, and runs through Sept. 1, said Ron Frame, head of the Faith Chamber of Commerce.
South Dakota Mountain Lion Visits Chicago
Credit goes to Kim in Rapid City for pointing out this interesting story. According to the Chicago Tribune, a mountain lion was found by police in a neighborhood on the city's north side earlier this month. That's pretty amazing all by itself, but here's the really remarkable part: wildlife officials think the big cat may have journeyed there from the Black Hills. That's about a 1,000 mile trip, give or take. Aside from the sheer distance, consider the kinds of obstacles between Chicago and western South Dakota. Like, oh, let's say the Missouri River. And the Mississippi River. And Interstates 29, 35 and 39. Those are some pretty significant barriers for any size animal.
Archaeology Summer Camp in Deadwood Gives Kids Indiana Jones Experience
All right, admit it: at some point in your life, you wanted to be an archaeologist. You were probably 11 and had just seen Indiana Jones for the first time. Then again, maybe you were 35 and had just seen Indiana Jones. It doesn't matter. Since the days of Heinrich Schliemann, Arthur Evans and Howard Carter, archeology has been a dream job for most people - somewhere between astronaut and fireman. Deadwood's Adams Museum knows that, so they've teamed up with the Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission to organize an archeology camp for 20 children for one week in Deadwood this summer, from June 23 through June 27. Alas, the camp is only open to kids ages nine through twelve (between the third and seventh grades), so if you're just a kid at heart, you'll have to settle for sending your children and experiencing it vicariously. Either that or do a lot of shrinking.
Laptop Campers Won’t Be Roughing It In Custer State Park
Roughing it won’t be so rough beginning this summer in Custer State Park. Park officials and the concessionaire Regency CSP Ventures LLP are looking at plans to extend wireless Internet service to campgrounds near the State Game Lodge, the Sylvan Lake Lodge, the Legion Lake Lodge and the Blue Bell Lodge.
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