Lead and Central City, South Dakota

Today I am going to write a little about the town
of Lead (pronounced Leed), South Dakota.
The town is located 18 miles south west of the
town of Sturgis and 4 miles from Deadwood. It was the home of the Homestake Gold Mine for more than 100 years and gets it's name from the word lead, which is another way of
saying ore vein.

Lead has a population of approximately
3000 people. After the Homestake Gold Mine
closed a few years ago, the town went into an
economic slump for a couple of years but is now starting to thrive again as tourists find the town and it's attractions which include two
nearby downhill ski slopes, miles and miles of
snow mobile, cross country skiing and hiking
trails.

The National Science Foundation recently
selected the Homestake Mine as the location
of it's planned deep underground science lab.
If and when it is established it will be at a
depth of nearly 8000 feet, the deepest of any
underground lab in the world.
To complement the 8000 foot NSF lab, the
state of South Dakota is in the process of developing a lab at the 4850 foot level for
those institutions and scientists who wish to
run experiments which don't require a location
any deeper than that.

Lead is located in a high valley and the slopes
on either side of the Valley. It has a recently
renovated opera house to bring back the opera glory days of 100 years ago. It also has a very
interesting gold mining museum, fine restaurants
and hotels.

The tiny hamlet of Central City is located 3 miles
from Deadwood and one mile from Lead. It has
a population of around 100 people. There isn't
a lot to say about Central City except it exists.
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A Matter of Character

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Deadwood, South Dakota

Today I am going to write a little about the
town of Deadwood, South Dakota, USA.

Deadwood is located 12 miles west southwest
of Sturgis. It is the second oldest town in the
Black Hills, being first settled about 1875 by
goldminers after gold was discovered near
the town site.

In the early days Deadwood was one of the
roughest, toughest communities in the United
State. Gun fights were a daily occurance as
miners attempted to defend their claims or
settle a gambling dispute. There were quite
a large number of prostitues and even these
ladies were not immune to the violence. At
least one was murdered by a jealous customer.

For the past twenty years Deadwood has been
the only authorized gambling town in South
Dakota. It has more than 100 casinios and a
very large number of hotel and motel rooms
as well as numberous, very reasonable
resturants and cafes.

Deadwood is still a small town, despite the
huge number of tourists drawn to it's many
attractions, with a population of around 2000.
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US Army Band

I said yesterday I was going to write about
the town of Deadwood today. Instead I am
going to say a few words about the US
Army band (I believe it is called the US Army
Field Band).
This band put on a fabulous two hour
program yesterday at the Rapid City
Civic Center.
To put it mildly, they were fantastic. They
played a wide range of tunes from marching
music to broadway hits. They had several
singing groups and singing soloists. In
all, I would say the performance of the
entire group bordered on perfection. Makes
one proud of our Army.
If this military band, or any of the other
national military bands are scheduled to
play in your area, I urge you to call for
tickets and go. The tickets are free. I am quite certain you will not be sorry.

One point of interest: Toward the end of
the program they played each of the military
branch's tune and asked all those who had
served in that branch to stand up while the
tune was being played. The total number
standing during one or another of the tunes
must have been about half the large
audience. If one adds in their spouses, I
would say most of those attending were
either veterans or spouses of veterans.

If you are not either, don't let that stop you
from enjoying a tremendous evenig of
music.
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Black Hills Tourist Attractions

I will be writing about the different Black Hills
tourist attractions at various times.
Today I will write about the attractions in the
northern part of the Black Hills.
There are five (six) towns in the northern part
of the Black Hills. The five are Sturgis, Deadwood,
Lead, Whitewood and Spearfish. Even though
Belle Fourche is a few miles north of the Black
Hills, I have chosen to include it in the northern
Black Hills town lineup, which makes the number
of northern hills towns six.

I will start with Sturgis, since it is my home town
and is located in the complete north east corner
of the Hills.
Sturgis started on it's way to becoming a town
around 125 years ago with the establishment
of a Army fort to protect the north part of the
hills from the indians. The Fort was called Fort Meade.
Sturgis is located on the Interstate 90 highway
and is about 27 miles from Rapid City, 20 miles
from Spearfish, 12 miles from Deadwood, 18
miles from Lead, 10 miles from Whitewood
and 27 miles from Belle Fourche.

Because of it's easy location to these towns
and cities, Sturgis has become somewhat of
a bedroom town. Fort Meade VA Medical
Center is locate about a mile east of Sturgis.
Sturgis has a population of approximately
seven thousand people. Sturgis is the shopping
center for the ranchers and farmers from a
vast area to the east of town. It is also a
tourist town of some note.

Once a year Sturgis hosts a huge five day
motor cycle rally. It goes by two names,
Sturgis Motor Cycle Rally and The Black
Hills Motor Cycle Rally. For the past ten
years the attendance has ranged from a
high or nearly three quarters of a million
bikers to a low of 450,000. Of course,
these bikers are spread out over the entire
Black Hills region during the weeks leading
up to the rally, during the rally and for about
a week affter the rally. The rally takes place
each year approximately the first week in
August. Officially it starts on a Monday and
ends on a Saturday. Unofficially it runs for
at least a week earlier than that and continues
on for nearly a week after the official event.
At any one time there is probably no more
than 100,000 bikers in the town of Sturgis
its self. The rest are spread out thoughout
the Black Hills region.

You might think, with that number of bikers
every year, there would be a great deal of
serious problems in Sturgis during that
period. Such is not the case. Of course
there are some problems but not what you
would expect. In the first place, the vast
majority of the people who show up look
very raunchy, heavily bearded and uncouth.
This is a front, in most cases. These are
mostly your every day, next door neighbor
kind of people. They start letting their
beards grow two or three months before
the rally and put on rough looking
clothing, all so they will look the part
everyone expects a rally biker to look.
The eye awakener is when one of them
hold the bank door open for you. Then
you realize all is not as it seems.

One somewhat unpleasant side affect
of the rally; the noise level can reach
almost unbearable levels. And, of course,
the traffic within the town can be quite
impossible. It is not unusual for a biker,
or a motorist, to take an hour to drive
approximately one mile from either
I-90 exit to downtown Sturgis. Then
comes the serious problem of trying to
find some place to park.

Sturgis is developing a reputation as a
small arms manufacturing town.
There are a number of small arms
and ammunition manufacturers in Sturgis. For eleven months of the year, Sturgis
is a quite, well behaved and might be
considered a religious town.
At last count it had 27 churches but
also has quite a lot of bars. it does not
have much in the way of regular shopping.
That is no big problem for people
living in Sturgis since it is such a short
distance to very good shopping in
Rapid City and Spearfish.

My wife and I have lived in Sturgis for
the past 28 years. We have lived all
over South Dakota and the United
States but we love living in Sturgis
by far the most of any place we've
lived.

Tomorrow I will write about Deadwood.
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Weapons of Mass Destruction

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editorialists, liberal news persons,
liberal politicians and liberal writers to
the editor, as well as liberal editorial
cartoonists about how President Bush
lied to us about Iraq having weapons of
mass destruction.
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First: Leading up to our invasion of
Iraq, the intelligence agencies of all the
major countries of the world were
reporting that fact to be so.

Second: Fox News ran exerpts of three speeches former president Bill Clinton
made in 1998 and 1999 in which he said "Sudam's weapons of mass
destruction pose a threat to the entire
to the entire world."

Third: Fox News ran portions of
interviews and speechs former Senate
majority leader of the Democratically
controlled Senate, Tom Daschle, made
in the year 2000 in which he repeated
Bill Clinton's statements, using the
exact same words.

Fourth: Fox News ran portions of
speechs made by all the top Democratic
leaders during the years 1998, 1999 and
2000 in which each of them said almost
identically the same words both Bill Clinton
and Tom Daschel used over and over again
during those years.

Fifth: A few days after the last presidential
election, Hillary Clinton said "I still think
Sudam Hussain had weapons of mass
destruction".

Were all these liberal democratics lying to
us too? What happened between the time
all those liberals held the viewpoint
Sudam Hussain had weapons of mass
destruction and a few years later which caused
all of these people to change their mind?

One other point: Last spring Fox News ran
a portion of an interview with a former top
general in Sudam's military. This general
said right after our forces crossed the
border into Iraq, Sudam issued an order for
all Iraq's weapons of mass destruction be
moved across the border into Syria. Was he
lying too?

Nearly half of Iraq is desert with constantly
shifting sand dunes. How easy it would have
been for all their weapons of mass destruction
be taken out in the vast desert wasteland and
buried deep in the sand. If you will recall,
there was a very bad sand storm a couple of
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the United States, and used by terrorists to
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