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Many small people, who in many small places, do many small things, can alter the face of the world. — Adage from the Xhosa of South Africa Many of us in the Highlands have had a difficult run-up to the holiday. Hurricane Sandy hit us with an ugly punch-to-the-gut on October 29th, testing our […] McGovern as Food for Peace director in 1961, with President John F. Kennedy. “I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie,” he said in an interview for this obituary in 2005 in his home in Mitchell. “My dad was a […] “It’s a great honor and privilege for us to be here representing not only the United States but men of peace of all nations, men with interests and a curiosity and men with a vision for the future.” – Neil Armstrong, speaking from the lunar surface to President Richard Nixon on July 20, 1969. |