Date and Time
Friday Feb 4, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
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Description
Cindy Wilson, author of The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-81 will join us at the Mead on February 4 at noon to share about the winter of 1880. This fast-paced presentation focuses on the railroad blockades that kept food and fuel from reaching the newly-formed towns in southwestern Minnesota and southeastern Dakota Territory during the Hard Winter of 1880-81.
Using the newspaper record, historic photographs, railroad maps, drone photography, and video, the presentation introduces the factors that caused the tracks to clog with snow, preventing the trains from running. After delving into the weather that was so difficult that winter, Wilson will go through the struggle to fight the drifts that blocked the trains.
The Mead Cultural Education Center is located at 82 Mickelson Drive in Yankton.
Feed Your Mind events are always free and open to the public.
