Carnegie Resource Center

As part of the year long celebration of the 100th anniversary of South Dakota’s capitol, the South Dakota Historical Society will Capitol Centennial family activities from 2pm-4pm at the Carnegie Resource Center on Monday June 21, 2010.
Visitors of all ages can put together a cornerstone time capsule and create their own round murals like those found in the capitol rotunda. State Historical Director Jay Vogt will do a presentation on the fight to locate the capitol that evening at 7pm as part of the Mitchell Area Historical Society’s regular program evening. For the family activity, visitors are encouraged to bring items to put inside their own 3-inch cardboard cornerstones. Notes, photographs, small toys- all would be suitable. Another activity will focus on the round murals that adorn the capitol rotunda. Visitors can see reproductions of the original murals and use paper plates and crayons to create their own round murals. Vogt’s presentation that evening will discuss the lively multi-year fight to permanently locate South Dakota’s state capitol. Pierre, Huron and Mitchell were the main contenders, but the fight really started in 1883, when the territorial capitol was being wrestled away from Yankton. Once South Dakota became a state, choosing a temporary and then permanent location for the capitol did not come easy.

Posted on June 18th, 2010 by Pam900
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