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For years, if you had asked me how I measured wealth, I’d have had a ready answer: time, books and berries in the freezer. Money was nice, sure, but for me the first three offered a more direct route to happiness. Read More »
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Expanding the meaning of wealth
Is your community wealthy? How you answer that question depends very much on how you define “wealth.” You might picture as a wealthy community a place like Vail, Colo., or the skyscrapers around Central Park in New York City—places with luxury that reflects the full bank accounts of the people who live there. Read More »
Capital Connections Game
Come up with creative ways to connect different forms of wealth in your community. Earn points for quality and humor. The team with the most points at the end of five rounds wins. Read More »
More communities set up endowed funds
Sometimes, the key to keeping wealth in a local community is providing the means. Read More »
Clark benefits from early investment in one of its youths
By the late 1990s, Dr. Glenn E. Ullyot had gone far from his roots in Clark. He had retired in 1975 with both great renown and wealth after a successful career in the pharmaceutical industry. But Ullyot had not forgotten his hometown. Read More »
Living off the land, and sharing the view
When Carla Sanderson looks out the front door of her lodge, she sees rustling cattail sloughs and rolling prairie grasslands. All she can hear is “the sound of geese and ducks—pure nature. No sounds of traffic noise.” Read More »
Small-town inventor thinks big to solve problems
David Julian is a small-town guy with big ideas and a steady hand. He hails from Arlington, S.D., and spends most of his free time dreaming up new inventions and new excuses to fire up his plasma cutter. Read More »
Homemaker’s value adds up to big sums
Homemakers might not think of their worth in terms of dollars and cents. After all, no one is writing them a paycheck for cooking, cleaning and child care Read More »
Neglected building becomes source of pride
Over the past few years, the town of Ethan, S.D., has come together to build its future on preserving its past. The state’s oldest cheese factory stirred its final vat of curds in the community of 330 in the mid-1990s and sat quietly for about 20 years before the building was remodeled into Ethan’s first designated town hall. Read More »
Museum helps bring history to new generation
After the Ethan town hall was completed, the Ethan Historical Society expressed an interest in occupying a portion of the building that incidentally was a huge part of the history of the community and the state. Read More »