Word: dakotas
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...grapes being used are special as well. In Missouri the Stone Hill Winery is producing excellent wines with the native red Norton grape. In Minnesota the hybrid Marechal Foch is featured in Alexis Bailly Vineyard's unique orange-infused fortified wine, Ratafia. South Dakota's Valiant Vineyards boasts a Wild Grape Red that is being successfully sold in Paris...
...moment stretched over a little period of time, from the spring of 1960 through the rest of that year. A professor named Bill Farber, who was the head of the political-science department at the University of South Dakota, called me to dinner at his house when I was a sophomore. I had, to put it euphemistically, compiled an undistinguished record personally and academically. I was not getting good grades. I was spending a lot of time on the beer and coed circuit. Farber said, "I want you to drop out of school and get this out of your system...
...worked at a radio station that summer in western South Dakota. In the fall, I returned to my hometown of Yankton, doing odd jobs around town and trying to figure out what to do next. My parents were pretty upset with me. One morning my mother was watching the Today show, and the local newscaster cut in from a TV station 60 miles away. My mother said, "You're better than he is. Why don't you try and get that job?" I arranged for an interview, and shortly I was hired as a staff announcer, noon news anchor...
...California, my wife Meredith and I went to dinner in Santa Monica. It was a moonlit night. Afterward, we walked out along the beach, and Meredith kicked off her shoes. Wading in the Pacific Ocean was so alien to our environment when we were growing up in South Dakota. I vividly remember looking at her--this beautiful young woman walking in the surf--and thinking, "This is really something special. Our lives have changed, and they will never be the same." And they certainly never have been. --As told to Laura Koss-Feder
...North Dakota can knock the Pioneers out of the playoffs and the Crimson advances to the ECAC semifinals, Harvard will take a giant leap towards solidifying its claim for an at-large...